The Lonely, Pitiful One Who Got Fooled Twice in Love

Jiang Ou was a loner who never fit in, and people had bullied him all his life. Then, in high school, he got a new deskmate.

His new deskmate, Shen Junke, was quiet and taciturn, but he helped chase off the people who bullied Jiang Ou.

Jiang Ou went from feeling awkward around him to relying on him. He thought he'd found an angel, only the angel couldn't speak.

Whatever Jiang Ou said, Shen Junke agreed to. Jiang Ou was insecure and sensitive, but on graduation day he worked up the courage to confess, his face pale with nerves. Shen Junke nodded and said yes.

Their relationship lasted until the day their college entrance exam results came out. Jiang Ou couldn't wait to contact Shen Junke and tell him he could apply to the same university Shen Junke was going to.

But he couldn't reach Shen Junke. Shen Junke had blocked him.

Jiang Ou tried everything, but he couldn't find Shen Junke. When he started college, Shen Junke wasn't there.

Shen Junke had even lied about which university he wanted to attend.

Jiang Ou didn't dare to date again. Perhaps he was only suited to being alone.

In his senior year of college, he met Zhou Jingyuan, a freshman whose eyes reminded him of Shen Junke.

He fled in panic, but Zhou Jingyuan asked plaintively if he'd done something wrong to upset him.

Jiang Ou said nothing, and Zhou Jingyuan didn't ask. He just tried all sorts of ways to cheer him up.

It was the first time anyone had pursued him so persistently, and Jiang Ou's heart softened. He agreed to date him.

Zhou Jingyuan was nothing like Shen Junke. He talked a lot and was clingy, and got upset whenever he couldn't see Jiang Ou.

The dream shattered the moment Jiang Ou discovered that Zhou Jingyuan knew Shen Junke.

Shen Junke had known from childhood that his life was already planned out: his studies, his career, even the person he would love.

When Jiang Ou confessed to him, he selfishly said yes.

He thought he could simply let go whenever he wanted, but years after their breakup, he still couldn't forget the way Jiang Ou had looked at him, eyes shining, as if Shen Junke were his whole world.

Then he saw Jiang Ou look at his younger brother the same way he had once looked at him. He regretted everything. That look should have belonged to him.

When they met again, Jiang Ou said, "You and I are in the past now."

Shen Junke gritted his teeth. "You think he's any better?"

The first time Zhou Jingyuan saw Jiang Ou was one afternoon when Jiang Ou had fallen asleep in the courtyard, his lovely, pale neck on full display. From then on, Zhou Jingyuan couldn't stop thinking about him.

He knew Jiang Ou was his older brother's lover, but so what? As long as they weren't married, he still had a chance.

Once, Jiang Ou asked Zhou Jingyuan if there was anything he was hiding from him. Zhou Jingyuan denied it without thinking.

He thought he'd covered his tracks perfectly, but he never imagined Jiang Ou already knew the answer when he asked.

Jiang Ou didn't confront him or argue. He quietly disappeared from Zhou Jingyuan's world.

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