My Roommate Has a Crush on Me

Ordinary life as roommates began to fall apart when Cheng Yixian accidentally clicked on the post "I Think My Roommate Has a Crush on Me."

The timing is right.

The place is right.

The people must be right, too.

So his roommate, Wen Yunshu, really thinks he's secretly in love with him???

Straight guy Cheng Yixian watched in agony as the poster slammed a fist on the floor over "he kissed me when he was drunk." Meanwhile, back at home, they still had to pretend everything was fine for the sake of the rent deposit.

The terrifying part was that the post just kept getting updated...

[Poster: I misunderstood him]

Reply: Do you need him to kiss you again before you get it?

[Poster: Something is very, very wrong]

Cheng Yixian: What did I do this time?

[Poster: I think I like him too]

Reply: At last, we're getting to the ending.

Cheng Yixian: ...Hey, you... Forget it. If Wen Yunshu likes me, I could try dating him.

[Poster: He confessed to me, and I turned him down]

Reply: Huh?

Cheng Yixian, watching Wen Yunshu sleep on his shoulder: Huh? Wait, I haven't even confessed yet?

Cheng Yixian: What did I do when I got drunk last time?

Wen Yunshu: Are you sure you want to know?

Wen Yunshu: You said I hadn't mopped properly, then spent the whole night doing a deep clean.

Cheng Yixian: ...No wonder I'm kind of tired.

"Why are we flirting again?" A daydreamer who knows he's handsome, working stiff, 1.

"What is he doing now?" A thoughtful but clueless grad student, 0.

A story that looks like two people independently falling for each other, but is actually just a story about two people falling for each other.

Reader's guide:

1. Both are virgins, 1v1.

2. A sweet story with very little angst.

★★★

Here's a preview of my upcoming novel:

"Pretending to Be a Girl and Falling in Love Online with a Girl I Was Paid to Play With"

In Jiang Xunyuan's ridiculous life, he did one truly despicable thing.

He started an online relationship.

With a girl he was paid to play with, while pretending to be a girl himself.

The girl he was paid to play with was an insanely good carry who charged next to nothing, even throwing in two extra games when boosting a low-ranked account.

Looking at the friend requests saying "Lagging? Daddy's here" and "Want to go pro? KW is recruiting," Jiang Xunyuan fell silent, wondering how he could quit without paying.

[Symphony: You're ranked that high?]

[Girl for Hire: Big sis got you a good account~ I filled in for someone and won it for you.]

The girl for hire had a miserable Genshin Impact family situation, earning tuition money through boosting while relatives on both sides of the family kept taking advantage of her. And yet she was kind and strong.

[Girl for Hire: This money is from my parents. After this, we're cutting ties for good.]

[Symphony: What will you do if you have no money?]

[Girl for Hire: I'll take a leave from school and work full-time boosting accounts for a while.]

How could someone quit school just because they had no money? Jiang Xunyuan's deeply ingrained sense of responsibility kicked in. Knowing the other person liked him, he said:

[Symphony: Keep studying. I'll cover your tuition and living expenses.]

[Girl for Hire: Big sis, you can't.]

[Symphony: If you go back to school, I'll agree to be with you.]

[Girl for Hire: ...]

And so Jiang Xunyuan spent his days earning a pittance at his internship and his evenings checking his girlfriend's report card.

A score of 400 isn't bad. Jiang Xunyuan, a graduate of a top university, thought with a smile.

His friends began to get suspicious of the small and medium-sized transfers Jiang Xunyuan had been making for over six months. When they found out the other person was still attending vocational school...

Friend: "??? Should I shock him with a taser or start yelling first?"

Friend: "Could the other guy be catfishing an old man?"

Jiang Xunyuan: "Get lost. I'm young."

#

In the girl-for-hire's third year at vocational school, she started an internship, and Jiang Xunyuan found a stable job.

By the time the other person suggested meeting in real life, Jiang Xunyuan had already finished renovating a home for the two of them.

By the romantic West Lake, there weren't many visitors on a weekday.

Jiang Xunyuan arrived at the spot the other person had named, but the only person on the bench was a man well over six feet tall.

Yes.

This was Jiang Xunyuan's online partner.

Even more terrifying than his little girlfriend turning out to be a man was the fact that he'd slept with him.

Jiang Xunyuan: ...

Jiang Xunyuan: "You said you got an internship at an electronics factory?"

Sui Shan: "I'm a pro gamer."

#

Sui Shan had lost both his parents, but they had left him an apartment. He had figured he could get by on his own for the rest of his life, playing games and earning a little extra on the side.

Then he met "Symphony."

She was six years older than him. She chatted with him and kept him company through the holidays. By the time Sui Shan fell for her, he realized just how little he had.

No money, no education, not even the ability to make the other person happy by passing physics.

He hadn't deceived many people in his life, but he had lied about everything to Symphony.

His gender was fake, his school was fake, and his internship was fake.

But even after learning that Symphony was a man, he was still going to make his way to Symphony's side, one step at a time.

Sui Shan had just signed a contract with the PR Club when he went to see Symphony.

Facing Symphony's cold expression and silence, Sui Shan took out the only two things he'd brought: his ID card and his phone.

"If you won't look at me, I'll throw my ID into the lake, then my phone, and then I'll jump in, too."

Jiang Xunyuan tugged at the corner of his mouth. "Jump first. Otherwise, I won't believe you."

#

In the end, broke and penniless, Sui Shan followed Jiang Xunyuan home. When he realized Jiang Xunyuan still liked him, he clung to him and got him into bed.

Sui Shan: "We slept together. I thought you'd take responsibility for me."

Jiang Xunyuan: "Heh. I should take responsibility for my own asshole, not you."

Jiang Xunyuan: "Also, pay me back."

#

The autumn tournament began. Although Sui Shan had several supposed girlfriends among his obsessive fans, he publicly announced that he had only ever dated one person, even before joining the youth team.

At the final match of the autumn regular season, someone took a photo of Sui Shan leaving with a beautiful cosplayer whose height, legs, and proportions were unreal.

The cosplayer was dressed as Sui Shan's favorite character, and Sui Shan was even carrying her high heels.

[Pro gamers with good stats and girlfriends who don't cause trouble, that's a perfectly good relationship. Congrats!]

[But I heard that cosplayer talk, and I think it was a guy.]

[Huh?]

[And doesn't anyone else think that cosplayer looks familiar?]

[Huh?]

#

Bonus scene

Everyone knows that SS has an SS.

Jiang Xunyuan: Help me decode this.

SS: SS, your dick keeps provoking people.

Jiang Xunyuan: ?

#

A down-and-out pro gamer top × a tsundere cosplayer bottom

Warnings:

1. When the top and bottom were dating online, they both pretended to be girls. The top pretended to be a girl-for-hire to earn money.

2. The top has no education, and the bottom has no manners.

3. More warnings may be added.

Reader's guide:

1. The game is original, and there isn't much about the competition, so it's easy to follow.

2. The story uses flashbacks. They're already together at the start.

3. Younger top; the bottom is six years older.

4. The story begins in 2029, in a partly fictional setting.

Theme: Love life.