I'm Really Not Straight!

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Shen Yan comes from a wealthy family, is bright and sunny, graduated from a prestigious university, and has always had life on easy mode.

Except when it comes to love. Everyone is absolutely convinced he ought to be paired with a flirtatious older woman with a tiny waist and long legs who treats him like a dog.

Shen Yan: ? I have one boyfriend, with broad shoulders and a trim waist, who treats me like royalty.

Shen Yan is helpless. Shen Yan explains. Shen Yan... stares at a woman who has appeared out of nowhere and is trying to shove a black card into his collar, then desperately tugs at his clothes. "Ma'am, I have a boyfriend!"

The woman remains cool and composed. "A black card isn't enough? I'll throw in a house. Come with me tonight."

As everyone around them cries out, as if possessed, "What a perfect match!" and "Now that's love!", a figure parts the crowd and angrily pulls Shen Yan into his arms.

The cold-faced man expressionlessly tosses the black card at the woman. "Junk."

Shen Yan breathes a sigh of relief.

Just as he relaxes, the woman says, "Long time no see, fiancé."

Shen Yan: ???

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After that, it seems as if the woman has him in her sights.

Shen Yan goes to work, and the woman is his secretary. Wherever they go, everyone puts down their work and shrieks in unison with their hands over their faces.

Shen Yan: You're disrupting work. One hundred off your pay for every scream.

Shen Yan goes on a date, and the woman stands at the entrance. Soon, a waiter silently adds another set of dishes and chopsticks to their table for two.

Shen Yan: I know your manager. Get up and get lost. Now.

Shen Yan stays home, and the woman appears in the living room. His mother beams. "The most important thing is that the three of you make a happy life together."

Hearing this, his boyfriend, who is making soup, charges at the woman with a cleaver in hand without even looking back.

Shen Yan's mother looks delighted. "Childhood sweethearts who fight as fiercely as they love, and a devoted, gentle newcomer."

Shen Yan looks horrified. "Stop shipping them! Someone's going to die!"

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Shi Zhenhong has loved Shen Yan since before he was even human.

They met in a run-down apartment. Back then, Shen Yan was destitute and all alone.

The young man could barely afford to feed himself, yet he spent half his money buying incense for Shi Zhenhong, then grinned and said, "I'll look after you from now on. Cheer up."

Throughout the long, lonely years, that was the only sunshine Shi Zhenhong had.

But Shen Yan, who had promised to look after him, still died.

All he left behind was a recording: "I'm sorry, Zhenhong. I can't hold on any longer. Live well from now on, and be a respectable ghost."

It was all connected to a woman.

Time turns back. Shi Zhenhong meets Shen Yan earlier, and in the third year of their relationship, he encounters that woman again.

Shi Zhenhong gently kisses the sleeping young man's forehead. The dim yellow light casts his shadow: huge and twisted, with countless faces swelling up, only to be swallowed again.

No one gets to bully his darling.

# A pure, sunny puppy x a genuinely vengeful male ghost. Let's shout it out: "Gay men rule! Gay men rule! Gay men rule!"

# I haven't decided on the female side character's name. Maybe later.

Theme: There is only one sexual orientation in the world: toward the one your heart desires.