Wait, Bro, How Did You Top Me?

Blurb:

An Jiu is a straight man, and he has a best friend.

When An Jiu sleeps, his friend warms his bed. When An Jiu changes clothes, his friend silently washes his shirts, his gaze dark. When An Jiu doesn't want to go on blind dates, his best friend steps in without hesitation and has a heartfelt talk with An Jiu's parents!

An Jiu waits anxiously outside for ages. When his parents finally come out, their expressions are complicated, and they never bring up blind dates again!

"Bro!!!" An Jiu hugs his best friend, his eyes brimming with grateful tears. His parents must have been moved by his friend's eloquent talk about their lofty ambitions!

"Let's be best friends for life!"

His friend gazes quietly at An Jiu's stunningly beautiful face, then gives a soft "Mm" after a long while.

Then, one day, his friend is lost at sea, leaving no body behind. All he leaves An Jiu is a thriving game company and an inheritance too large to spend.

An Jiu beats his chest in anguish: Bro! What am I supposed to do without you!

The whole world knows about An Jiu and Yu Shi, and how deep their brotherly bond runs. After all, An Jiu is both the beneficiary of Yu Shi's insurance and the sole heir to his estate.

Having lost such a wonderful friend, An Jiu thinks his life is over.

But then the game his friend left behind begins to break down, and all sorts of resentful anomalies start wandering through its instances.

An Jiu wipes away his tears. "Bro! Don't worry! I won't let all your hard work go to waste!"

Soon, the company organizes a team of top experts to deal with the anomalies. An Jiu has the game's only high-level privileges, allowing him to draw anything he wants into existence inside the game.

An Jiu puts on the privilege controller his friend left behind. The silver ring gleams on his ring finger. "My bro really thought of everything, but this controller's the wrong size. Why can't I wear it on my middle finger?"

Wait, that's not right!

An Jiu: "Why do all the anomalies have my bro's face?!"

Even the customer service representative assigned to him by the game looks exactly like his bro.

An Jiu tries several times to draw a cannon and blast the anomalies away, but seeing that face always makes him soften.

Since he can't fight them head-on, An Jiu has to deal with the anomalies himself and dispel their resentment. He thinks all he has to do is secretly help them reach the top.

But then:

1. In a power fantasy about a domineering hero rising to the top, the rich playboy side character, who should have been cast aside after helping the protagonist build a business empire, not only avoids ruin but makes a high-profile relationship announcement with the hero and spends the rest of his life by his side.

The hero bro: Love should be shouted from the rooftops!

An Jiu: ...Bro, something feels off here.

2. In an ancient political intrigue novel with no romance, the enemy emperor, who should be ruthless and leave no survivors, breaks through the city gates and falls in love at first sight with an unpopular "princess" from the Cold Palace, insisting on making him empress.

An Jiu is going crazy: I'm a man in disguise! A man in disguise!! Bro, open your eyes and look!

The emperor bro: I did. You're pink.

(To be written)

An Jiu watches these anomalies happily fade away after spending their lives with him, and clings desperately to his straight-guy principles. "Bro, this isn't right. Why does it feel like we're both into men?!"

"Aren't we best friends? Why are you eyeing your bro's ass?!!"

Highlights:

1. Everyone with his bro's face is a fragment of his bro himself.

2. Both are each other's only partner. His bro is openly in love with him, while An Jiu is unconsciously in love with his bro.

3. An Jiu is the best-looking person in the whole book.

Theme: Live life to the fullest