After Being Reborn, I Got Together with the Brooding, Obsessive Guy Who Had a Crush on Me

In his previous life, the shou was a total heartthrob, with countless people pursuing him. The gong was a gloomy, clingy man at the company who had a secret crush on him. Depressed and twisted, introverted and insecure, he would always secretly fix his gaze on the shou whenever the shou wasn't paying attention.

After being reborn, the shou learned that the world he lived in was a dark, twisted harem novel, and that his boss, coworkers, classmates... all wanted to forcefully imprison him and have their way with him.

Given a second chance at life, the shou decided to find out who had killed him in his previous life and keep himself alive in this dark and twisted novel.

His boss offering to drive him home after work, a coworker handing him a drink after stepping in to help him with his liquor at a group dinner, a college roommate asking to visit his place after a reunion...

All these behaviors, which had once seemed perfectly normal, now looked to the shou like the forked tongues of venomous snakes, and he wanted nothing to do with them.

Only then did the shou realize that the gloomy man, whom he had always thought was sinister and dangerous and whom everyone around him had warned him to stay away from, was actually the most dependable man in the whole book.

To turn down everyone else's advances, the shou decided to make the first move and seduce the gloomy man who had a crush on him, so the man would ask him to be together.

His method of seduction was to become an even gloomier version of the gloomy man: a "Gloomy Man Pro Max."

The shou picked up a cigarette butt, still glowing with embers, that the gloomy man had smoked in the stairwell. He put the cigarette, marked with the gloomy man's bite, in his mouth, his expression as if savoring the taste of the man's mouth.

The shou picked up a T-shirt the gloomy man had worn and left on a seat. He held the shirt, still carrying the man's scent, beneath his nose, closed his eyes, and inhaled the gloomy man's scent in a lovestruck manner.

The shou kept the broken glasses the gloomy man had worn. He put the frames the man had used in his bag, taking them out and playing with them over and over whenever he missed him.

After the shou's tireless efforts, the gloomy man finally couldn't hold back. He took him to the stairwell, blushing bright red as he confessed his feelings, then told him, "If you like, you can have anything I've used from now on, but please don't do that anymore..."

The shou thought he had become so gloomy that even the gloomy man couldn't stand his behavior. But the gloomy man looked at him with concern and said softly:

"If someone else sees... it won't be good."

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After getting together with the gloomy man, the shou asked him a question:

"When you saw me put the cigarette butt you'd smoked into my mouth, how did it feel?"

The gloomy man's Adam's apple bobbed. Blushing, he stammered, "I-I was so turned on I thought I was going to explode."

A gloomy-looking but actually pure-hearted, handsome, curly-haired gong x a sunny-looking but actually flirtatious, cheerful, energetic shou

Blurb written on 2026/05/04

Theme: Love is the cure