After Becoming Roommates with My Love Rival

[A straight, hopelessly bad-at-being-bad bottom × a top who seems noble and pristine but is rotten to the core]

Chen Shu had been good-looking since childhood. He had also made it from a remote mountain village to one of the country's top universities, and was so conceited and full of himself that, even though he was now penniless, he firmly believed he would one day rise above everyone else.

Later, Chen Shu got a rich second-generation boyfriend. Several times, his boyfriend begged him to wear black-rimmed glasses and a shirt from a certain brand... That was when Chen Shu realized he was probably being used as someone's stand-in.

He waited outside the lab for several days, until he saw his boyfriend walk out with another man.

The man was 190 centimeters tall, with a high nose bridge and amber eyes, radiating intelligence and charm.

Most importantly, he wore black-rimmed glasses and a shirt just like the ones his boyfriend had asked Chen Shu to wear.

Chen Shu knew who he was. He had heard that the man had so many research projects he couldn't count them all, had won countless academic awards at home and abroad, and was so sought-after that leading scholars in his field were fighting to take him on as a student.

He was an overseas Chinese who had returned to the country, a scientific genius raised up by four generations of his family.

And Chen Shu's boyfriend had once told him, “Someone like you, who came from the countryside, couldn't match Sirius even after three generations.”

Chen Shu swore to himself that poverty wouldn't keep a young man down. One day, he would trample all these privileged elites underfoot.

When Chen Shu made that vow, he never imagined that the very next day he would become roommates with Sirius.

The first time Chen Shu met Sirius, the other man laid down a bunch of dorm rules, including what time Chen Shu had to be back and how he wasn't allowed to make any noise at night...

Chen Shu agreed to his face, but secretly started collecting dirt on Sirius.

He knew the other man kept a notebook hidden away. Every day, he would scribble in it and slip photos inside.

Chen Shu thought there must be some unspeakable secret in it. One day, while the other man was showering, he opened the notebook.

Inside, he found page after page of photos of himself: smiling faintly, daydreaming, looking down as he ate in the cafeteria, frowning as he hurried through the rain, crying sadly... There were even photos of him showering!

The margins were filled with the same word: Baby.

Chen Shu slammed the notebook shut in terror, his fingers trembling. Then Sirius's sinister voice came from beside him:

“Baby, you've been naughty.”

Waaah! X﹏X

A few years later, Chen Shu's career was flourishing. His ex-boyfriend showed up at his home, begging to get back together, but Sirius stepped in and blocked his view.

Sirius furrowed his brow anxiously. “Baby, don't look at him. Look at me.”

I'm the one you love.

Reading guide:

1. The bottom and his ex-boyfriend only ever held hands.

2. The beloved white moonlight takes the place of a stand-in.

Theme: The sun shines on the long-abandoned northern lands of Earth.