A rich, handsome, doting nouveau-riche top who spoils his wife x a beautiful manga artist bottom, cold-faced and cute, who unconsciously acts all sweet
One-on-one, both are each other's first and only.
A sweet slice-of-life romance where a one-sided crush turns into both of them reaching for each other.
After losing his family overnight, the bottom goes from a pampered young master to an unemployed drifter in a shabby rental apartment. From then on, he believes he's really just a substitute side character in a novel.
He takes the initiative and goes to the top to apply for the job.
The top still remembers how the bottom looked so calm, yet spoke with such confidence: "Hello. Do you need a stand-in?"
The bottom is very professional about being a stand-in. Every day, when the top leaves for work and comes home at night, the bottom is always the first to greet him. (Sometimes the top feels like he's adopted a cat.) The bottom even asks whether the top wants, well, that. The top says no.
But the bottom thinks it over and decides he can't just take the money for nothing. He rises onto his toes and kisses the top on the cheek. "If you feel bad about your unrequited love, just think of me as your little brother. There's nothing wrong with a little brother kissing his big brother on the cheek, right?"
But as time goes by, the bottom starts slacking off. He still waits for the top every day, but in his dreams. Since he's a manga artist, sometimes he works through several nights to finish his pages. When the top wakes in the morning, even if the bottom is half asleep, he'll stumble over to give him a kiss just as he's about to leave, mumbling, "Good morning, hubby/big brother/darling." He calls him whatever he feels like.
The top's heart melts, and he asks the bottom if he wants to get married.
The bottom thinks the top is confused and has mistaken him for his unrequited love, so he politely declines, saying he'd rather keep things stable and remain the stand-in.
Theme: Believe in yourself.
