Those Years I Was Secretly Loved by a Cross-Dressing Heartthrob

Liang Jue's first impression of Xie Xun went back to his second year of high school, when he heard countless rumors that Xie Xun, from Class Nine in the building across from his, had a crush on him. But Xie Xun was a boy. Liang Jue was a boy too, a handsome, aloof straight guy. He didn't understand the attraction, but respected it as a minority orientation. But Xie Xun came up so often in his friends' teasing that Liang Jue started getting annoyed. So Liang Jue cornered the rumored Xie Xun at the back gate of the school. To his surprise, Xie Xun looked like an ordinary high school boy, and he was quite pretty. But that was the extent of Liang Jue's impression. He cornered him, his expression and voice both cool, and asked, “Do you like me?” Xie Xun blushed. Before he could answer, Liang Jue continued, “Don't like me. I don't like guys.” Liang Jue walked away as soon as he finished speaking. After turning his back, he heard Xie Xun's quiet reply. It wasn't “Okay,” but “Oh.” What did “Oh” mean? Liang Jue wasn't interested, and Xie Xun did indeed disappear from his high school life. Liang Jue soon forgot the little incident. Later, when he ran into Xie Xun again outside the same dorm building during college move-in, he didn't recognize him. When he heard Xie Xun's name, he connected it to the person in his memory. Liang Jue never thought too highly of himself, so he just figured it was a coincidence. His next impression of Xie Xun was still that he was pretty. Over time, that gained the additions “you're everywhere” and “part of the niche crowd that likes cross-dressing.” As Liang Jue got to know him better, those labels faded, leaving just “Xie Xun,” then gradually adding more fantastical descriptions like “a little dumb,” “a stutterer,” and “cute.” In the end, he became his boyfriend, Xie Xun. Everyone in the know said Xie Xun was absurdly persistent and couldn't believe he'd actually managed to win Liang Jue over. Liang Jue himself didn't see it that way, but Xie Xun's good qualities didn't need explaining to anyone else. It was enough that Liang Jue knew. Xie Xun didn't actually have a cross-dressing fetish. He liked a guy who was straight and had clearly told him he wasn't into men, so he should give up. Xie Xun remembered the first time he and Liang Jue crossed paths. He had been dressed as a girl, wearing a skirt. Liang Jue apparently hadn't realized he was a boy at all, and had even lent him his school jacket after he got drenched in a downpour. After Liang Jue rejected him to his face, Xie Xun took a hard look at himself. It didn't matter if Liang Jue wasn't into guys. He could learn to dress like a girl and pretend to be one, and he could also become the kind of person Liang Jue liked. So he went down the cross-dressing route and never looked back. Even after they went to college, Xie Xun's slim but nearly six-foot-two frame made him look a little ridiculous in women's clothes. Yet Liang Jue still seemed not to notice anything amiss and tacitly allowed him to test the waters and slowly get closer. Of course, it turned out Liang Jue, who remained straight even after becoming his boyfriend, wasn't actually blind. He had simply always been the same softhearted gentleman he'd been at their first meeting. A cross-dressing top with a thousand pounds of baggage × a ridiculously handsome, aloof straight bottom ※ Cross-dressing top, turns the straight bottom gay ※ A pure romance disguised as a gender-bending farce ^^ ※ Still focused on one-on-one romance, no switching or love triangles ※ All settings serve the plot. Thanks for reading! Here's a preview of an upcoming story, “I Took Advantage of My Amnesiac Archrival and Then Dumped Him.” The blurb: Chen Zui and Wen Ruheng are widely recognized by the young rich men of Lancheng as archrivals. Chen Zui, however, doesn't think he and Young Master Wen have had much to do with each other, and never takes the matter seriously. That is, until he hears Wen Ruheng call him frivolous. Chen Zui immediately decides to live up to his archrival reputation and annoy him now and then. The result is an even more infuriating assessment: childish, boring, and temperamental. Chen Zui: ...Who gave him the right to play the gentle, refined gentleman? A piece of trash like that deserves to be trampled underfoot! Who would have thought that an accident would give Chen Zui the perfect opportunity? He finds a stranger washed up on his private island, and the man wakes up hugging him and calling him “big brother,” behaving very obediently. Not recognizing him, Chen Zui kindly takes in the handsome man, who has lost his memory and become childlike after being attacked. Then his friends tell him this is the person he hates most, Wen Ruheng. Chen Zui: ? Oh, then I'll seize the opportunity to give him a thorough beating and show him who he should never mess with. . The night before Wen Ruheng returns to Lancheng, he repeatedly tells Chen Zui to go back soon, and obediently says, “I'll miss you a lot.” A few days later, Chen Zui hears that Wen Ruheng has recovered his memories. But not completely: he has forgotten the three months he spent with Chen Zui. Chen Zui: ...? Is he messing with me? Chen Zui can't be bothered to waste time correcting him, so he acts as if they've never met. Then he suddenly hears that Wen Ruheng is getting married. Chen Zui still can't swallow his anger, so at a gathering he sneers, “You've done a great job playing the pure, noble gentleman. But the way you moaned beneath me was far more frivolous than I am.” The spectators are stunned, but Wen Ruheng's expression doesn't change. He calmly tells Chen Zui to mind his manners. Later, after Chen Zui successfully wins Wen Ruheng over, he holds a grudge in bed too. “Would you please mind your manners? Someone as frivolous as me isn't worthy of you. Get out.” Wen Ruheng apologizes at once. “Baby, I'm sorry.” “Who's your baby? Get out.” “Big brother, I'm sorry...” Wen Ruheng is two years older than him, but that form of address works very well on Chen Zui. He doesn't act like an older brother at all, but so what? The bastard can't remember what happened before, so Chen Zui deserves this! (Even if Wen Ruheng makes him pay for it tenfold in bed, Chen Zui absolutely, positively, cannot lose face!) A foul-tempered, even more ill-natured, but truly beautiful young master bottom × a genuinely upright but hopelessly lovesick gentleman top Theme: Courage