Tearing Up the Bad Ending Script with My Childhood Friend

Jiang Yuchun had been in love without hope for years. In order to win his handsome man and prevent their story from ending in tragedy, he chose to fake a marriage with a friend to provoke the childhood sweetheart he'd secretly loved for years.

But when his childhood sweetheart received the wedding invitation, he seemed completely unconcerned. Instead, he asked:

"Does she know you confessed to me?"

Shen Yu sat opposite Jiang Yuchun with an unreadable expression, leaving Jiang Yuchun unable to gauge his thoughts. He taunted him:

"She doesn't care."

At those words, Shen Yu, who never showed his emotions in public, stormed out, leaving Jiang Yuchun alone.

But Jiang Yuchun was a bundle of contradictions. On the one hand, he wanted to rekindle things with Shen Yu. On the other, he still couldn't get over Shen Yu rejecting his confession two years earlier.

He flirted with Shen Yu while also keeping his distance.

Until Shen Yu asked him:

"A-Chun, you like seeing me lose control, don't you?"

Then it was as if the heavens had seen his dilemma and given him a chance: he transmigrated back to his high school years, where he could make up for his regrets and uncover the truth.

But he didn't transmigrate into his own body. Instead, he became Jia De, a con artist who'd cheated him out of thirty thousand yuan in high school.

*

On his first transmigration, Jiang Yuchun didn't really understand what it meant. He was like a bystander, watching his former self and Shen Yu being sweet together.

But as he watched, he noticed something was off.

For instance, Shen Yu had liked him for a long time. He was the clueless one.

Then he looked closer and realized he wasn't clueless after all. He'd just been running away the whole time.

Jiang Yuchun suddenly understood: he was the reason they had missed their chance!

*

After transmigrating, Jiang Yuchun was incredibly busy.

He wasn't the only one with regrets. Other people had them too.

So he became a spinning top, constantly working to make up for everyone's regrets.

Using Jia De's innate knack for scamming and his own knowledge of the future, he tried to change the fate that awaited each person.

*

Jiang Yuchun discovered that every time his transmigration ended, he would randomly land somewhere.

The first time, he landed in Shen Yu's home and became a burglar who had broken in.

Shen Yu had just finished showering. Water droplets still fell from his hair, and his bathrobe was loosely tied. Jiang Yuchun leaned against the door, clutching the hem of his own clothes.

Shen Yu came closer and stared at him, making him feel guilty.

"Explain why you're here," Shen Yu said, smiling at him. "Otherwise, I'll call the police and report you for stalking. Are you a pervert?"

Jiang Yuchun: ...Don't be so ruthless... We might still have to see each other again!

Shen Yu: I've called the police.

Jiang Yuchun's eyes widened in shock. No, please!

The next few times he transmigrated, Jiang Yuchun found himself appearing in hospitals most of the time.

He ended up in a psychiatric hospital, a sanatorium, and a general hospital.

At first, Jiang Yuchun thought he just had some kind of affinity with hospitals. Later, he realized he was mentally ill, and every time, he managed to get himself admitted.

The first time in the hospital, nothing happened. But on the second and third visits, Jiang Yuchun realized he was done for.

Because every time, he saw Shen Yu, heartbroken and furious.

Shen Yu asked him with red-rimmed eyes, "Do you really want to get away from me that badly?"

Shen Yu's perspective:

Shen Yu had loved Jiang Yuchun for years, but he knew all too well that he wasn't good enough for him now.

On the day the college entrance exams ended, he had planned to confess to Jiang Yuchun. Jiang Yuchun was a fool, a fool who ran away from things, but Shen Yu wasn't. He loved Jiang Yuchun, and he knew Jiang Yuchun loved him too.

If two people love each other, shouldn't they be together?

But an accident forced him to stay away from Jiang Yuchun. Later, when Jiang Yuchun confessed to him, Shen Yu felt so inferior that he could barely stand it. He rejected him for the sake of Jiang Yuchun's future.

He let Jiang Yuchun go, but that didn't mean Jiang Yuchun would let him go.

When he saw Jiang Yuchun drunk in the snow, looking at him as if he wanted to cut ties, yet making every sentence a confession of how much he missed him,

he softened all over again.

He watched Jiang Yuchun inch closer, only to recoil like a startled rabbit every time he got near.

His heart rose and fell along with Jiang Yuchun's actions.

Now he knew he would never escape him.

You only get one chance. There's no second time. Once you've made up your mind, you can only do it once. There's no second time.

A restrained, self-deprecating, icy top vs. a sunny bottom who really is mentally ill and quietly feels inferior

Reader's Guide:

1. The story is mainly told from the bottom's perspective, and he really is ill. There are more of his psychological reflections in the middle and later sections.

2. Plot > romance. The bottom's journey of self-redemption is the main focus.

3. The top's feelings of inferiority are only revealed later in the story.

4. No wife-in-name-only plot. The marriage is fake! There is a straight romance subplot (secondary couple).

Theme: Love can heal everything.