Why Did My Childhood Friend Confess to Me?

【University campus + mutually devoted 1v1 HE + secretly in love + disguise + long-planned pursuit + older love interest】 【Sweet-talking little ray of sunshine × childhood-friend big brother who seems serious and proper but is actually possessive and controlling】 At 5:20 a.m., Xia Shuo lost ten ranked matches in a row. Furious, he wanted to post twenty complaints on his social feed, but when he opened it, he saw that his childhood friend had posted a new update. I like you., 2026.5.20 05:20 Xia Shuo's first reaction: ? His second reaction: His big bro has someone he likes!! Xia Shuo commented: Congratulations!! The other person replied instantly: This post is visible only to you. ?! Something's not right! What does “visible only to me” mean? Xia Shuo was bewildered. Could his big bro be gay? Isn't April Fools' Day on 4/1? Could it be 5/20 instead? He wasn't sure anymore. He must have stayed up so late that he was hallucinating. When he woke up, the post was still there. Unable to resist, he screenshotted it and asked the big brother he'd known since kindergarten. Xia Shuo: “What do you mean?” Shen Yu: “What? Is that not okay?” Xia Shuo: “No way in hell!” Shen Yu: “Then let's give it a try.” Xia Shuo: “[Angry][Angry]” Xia Shuo: “I thought of you as my big brother, and you want to sleep with me!!” Shen Yu: “I've wanted to for a long time.” - Shen Yu knew he had never been a gentle gentleman. When it came to Xia Shuo, who had a huge circle of friends and got along with everyone, he wanted to tie him up at home every day so Xia Shuo could spend all twenty-four hours with him. But he couldn't do that. So he pretended to be magnanimous and never interfered. Until they went to college. Xia Shuo started taking longer and longer to reply to his messages, had more and more female friends around him, and even traveled twenty kilometers to another city to take photos of a pretty girl! He couldn't take it anymore. He began trying to guide Xia Shuo into discovering his own possessiveness, darkness, and need for control. Until his baby was so frightened he stared at him with wide eyes, like a startled kitten. He caressed the face he had yearned for and pulled him into his arms. “Shuoshuo, I don't just want to be your big brother.” “I want you to call me ‘hubby’ even more.” - Later, Xia Shuo discovered a special app on Shen Yu's computer. It had an entry for every single day of the past three years: His moods, what he liked to eat, what time he went to bed, who he had complimented... There was even an entry that read: “2024.2.9, he looked at Shen Qian for 3.2 seconds, 0.8 seconds longer than he looked at me.” At the top of the page, a red notice read: “Keep playing the role of Shuoshuo's favorite person.” Reader's guide: 1v1, mutually devoted campus romance with a happy ending Some sweet talk after they get together Content warning: The love interest is intensely possessive and controlling, and disguises it at first Please add my September release to your favorites. The following is the blurb for my next novel. 【Rivals to lovers + height difference: 175 × 189 + sweet romance + sex addiction】 Pretty, easygoing ray of sunshine × outwardly chaste but secretly sex-addicted and controlling love interest Le Mian woke up to find himself lying on a man's abs. He fell to the floor in shock, only to discover that he'd turned into a cat. When he looked up, he realized the man with the abs was his rival. He'd become his rival's cat! His rival propped his chin on one hand and looked at the cat hair flying all over the room, then said fondly, “Lele, stop playing and go to sleep.” Damn it! It was bad enough that he picked on him all the time, but now he'd even given the cat the same surname as him just to humiliate him! As a cat, Le Mian spent the whole night helpless, desperate, and terrified. Then he discovered that after midnight, he would turn back into himself. He laughed triumphantly at the sky and started doing whatever he pleased. The first time, he shredded his rival's designer clothes. His rival just patted his head and went to class in the ripped clothes. The second time, he grabbed his rival's phone, which had been left unlocked, and sent “idiot” to someone he hated. His rival happily told people that his cat could type. His rival, who always picked on him openly and behind his back, turned out to be a cat lover who spoiled his pet without limits! One day, everyone in class started saying that his rival was dating the campus belle. Le Mian set the record straight: “That's not true.” His best friend was skeptical. “How do you know it's not true? Would Zhou Che tell you something like that?” “Because I saw it with my own eyes.” Yesterday, after turning into a cat, his rival had held him in his arms and kissed him. He'd happened to see him send a rejection message. Just then, a familiar, low voice came from behind him. “How did you see that with your own eyes?” Le Mian turned around and saw Zhou Che. He was so startled his soul nearly flew out of his body. But how was he supposed to explain it now? * Zhou Che noticed that his cat had been acting strangely lately. It wouldn't let him hold or kiss it, and bared its teeth whenever he came close. The vet couldn't find anything wrong with it, either. Zhou Che suspected the cat was going into heat and planned to have its balls removed. He never expected Le Mian, who had always treated him like the enemy, to come to him and ask him not to neuter the cat. That was strange. Why was Le Mian so concerned about his cat? So that night, he deliberately went shirtless, held the cat while it stood on his abs, and asked suggestively, “Baby, does that feel good?” The next day, he saw Le Mian walking around with red ears, avoiding him. Oh, so that's what it was. So he offered to trade secrets. “I have skin hunger. If you help me with it, I promise I won't take a single part off the cat.” Zhou Che was afraid the cat would lose its balls and he would lose his, too, so he gritted his teeth and agreed. But why did it start with cuddling, turn into kissing, and end up with them helping each other out... “Baby, I lied. It's not skin hunger. It's a sex addiction.” * Theme: Embrace the times and work together to build a better future