Little Mutt

Xie Weiyi is reborn.

Reborn at the very moment he was about to undergo □□ removal surgery...

In his previous life, Xie Weiyi got together with a man nearly ten years his senior. He altered his body, took a leave of absence and eventually dropped out, drifted around unemployed, became a social outcast, and got involved with a married man. One consequence after another pushed him to the edge of a cliff with nowhere left to turn.

After nearly ten years tangled up together, it all came to nothing.

At first, the man was passionately in love, accompanying him through surgery and treating him with endless tenderness and care. In the end, he discarded him like trash, heedless of his vicious words and humiliating insults.

In the end, people's hearts change, and love cannot last forever.

When both of them are reborn, they return to the moment they made the decision that would have such a profound impact on their future. At the crossroads of fate, the path ahead no longer leads to a happy ending where they mend their broken relationship. Perhaps he is past the age when memories of happier times could make him let everything go and love once more, no matter the cost.

Xie Weiyi remembers something he once heard: people who truly love each other will never be separated. As long as thinking of each other still hurts, they will never truly lose one another.

But what if the pain they feel... comes at different times?

*

Jiang Yizhou opens his eyes and finds himself back in the afternoon ten years ago when he accompanied Xie Weiyi to have surgery.

He has no time to mourn the social security contributions he paid for years or the mortgage he had nearly finished paying off, now all gone. Instead, he turns and sees a young, vibrant Xie Weiyi.

Not a bitter ex-lover screaming at him in a vicious argument, nor a cold corpse lying forever in a bathtub. The boy looks at him with innocent eyes, his beautiful phoenix eyes full of purity.

He calls him Brother Zhou, just as he did when they first met.

"Xie Weiyi, grow up. Can you stop acting so childish?"

Those are the words he often says, enjoying Xie Weiyi's youthful energy while criticizing his childish antics.

But at some point, everything changes...

Xie Weiyi grows mature and steady, becomes more and more captivating, and needs him less and less.

He seems to have fallen in love with him only after Xie Weiyi has stopped loving him completely.

*

"Do you remember how much you used to love me? Back then, you..."

They have lost count of how many times they have revisited this place. At last, they run into each other by chance and sit on a bench beside the beach again. Xie Weiyi is holding up binoculars, gazing at a figure out at sea.

Unable to accept it, he rambles on about how much Xie Weiyi once loved him.

"So... could you love me one more time?"

"Look, the waves."

"Where?"

"They're gone."

Reading Guide:

[Otherworldly long-haired beauty gong, possessive, scheming, and brooding man VS rough-and-ready, straightforward puppy shou, broad shoulders, narrow waist, strong, nurturing man]

The CP stays together and their roles do not switch.

Both reborn | Broken relationship, not rekindled | SC | HE

The romance develops slowly, and the shou appears later. The early part mainly focuses on the gong's personal growth.

Includes various tropes such as rebirth and changing love interests, the shou becoming the gong, a straight shou, rebirth, and a broken relationship that does not rekindle. If these are dealbreakers for you, please avoid the story (one person's poison is another's honey, and it's hard to say what will bother someone... In short, please leave right away if it doesn't suit you).

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