Breakup Request Denied

[Second chance at love with no one at fault / both reborn / simmering romantic tension / goofy, bittersweet sweetness / everyone has a sharp tongue (?)]

[Shameless, persistent, sharp-tongued drama-queen seme x foul-mouthed, short-tempered uke who can’t do anything about him]

[When all else fails, bury your face in his neck and take a bite x reflexively raise a hand and smack him]

Late at night, Dai Gelan was sobering up alone at the airport when Zuo Hui, his ex, cornered him. Five years earlier, Dai Gelan had broken up with him by sending a single text.

The screen of Zuo Hui’s phone showed the exclusive nickname he had saved for Dai Gelan, and he brazenly announced that he was taking him home.

Dai Gelan: Is it possible we’ve already broken up?!

And how could he corner me when I went out of my way to avoid him?!

His ex hauled him to his feet and replied in a calm voice that couldn’t quite hide how smug and irritating he was: “Breakup request received. Request denied.”

On the way to his new home, Dai Gelan watched the driver take him to the rental apartment with the familiarity of someone heading home and suddenly realized something. “Don’t you need GPS?”

“You can’t use GPS when you’re abducting your ex-boyfriend. That’d leave evidence. You just grab him and elope, and anywhere can be your destination.” Zuo Hui replied instinctively and proudly, without missing a beat.

Dai Gelan: ?

I think you’re overdue for a good punch from me.

From that day on, after returning to his hometown, Dai Gelan discovered that his ex-boyfriend was everywhere in his life.

Zuo Hui was the one who cornered him at the airport, the landlord of his rental, and the coworker sitting across from him at his new job.

The boss who arranged their seats chuckled. “Isn’t this distance perfect? Whenever he gets on your nerves, you can kick him to let off steam.”

Their former teammates and current coworkers all nodded in agreement.

Dai Gelan, who’d been set up: ? You’re all in cahoots. Some friends you are.

Like a ghost haunting him, the ex devoted himself to showing off like a peacock every day, trying to get promoted back to boyfriend.

Knowing that in his previous life Dai Gelan had buried his love in his suicide to protect him, and counting on the special tenderness Dai Gelan had always shown him, he drew closer and gradually worked his way into Dai Gelan’s life. Little by little, he stopped hiding the almost pathological insecurity and possessiveness in his eyes.

The dagger that had once pierced Dai Gelan’s heart had also been buried in Zuo Hui’s. Violets bloomed at the bottom of the grave, linking him to his new life and his return to the one he loved.

Later, Dai Gelan finally realized that the eyes watching him from the same shadowy corner of the parking garage as in his previous life belonged to his lover, who had also wagered his life and been reborn.

“Zuo Hui, do you like the jasmine green grape drink?” In his previous life, it was the last scent of Zuo Hui that Dai Gelan caught before he died, in that corner of the parking garage.

Zuo Hui’s body stiffened.

In his previous life, Zuo Hui had searched for Dai Gelan countless times. But on the one occasion when he couldn’t hold back his feelings and approached him in a dimly lit spot, the champagne he’d been drinking tasted of jasmine and green grapes.

“It’s awful. I hate it.” Zuo Hui buried his face in the crook of Dai Gelan’s neck, his lips barely brushing against him.

“I think it’s pretty good.” That taste made me think of you across both lifetimes, and it let me see you again.

Dai Gelan finally understood that those dreams he’d been haunted by weren’t dreams at all.

They were a reunion.

After that, Dai Gelan realized Zuo Hui could no longer hide his insecurity, and saw the obsession and stubborn resolve he’d carried through both lifetimes to keep Dai Gelan safe in this one.

And that insecurity meant that there was often an unrepentant repeat offender appearing under Dai Gelan’s blankets.

Dai Gelan: …Is this normal?

As he pondered, Dai Gelan grabbed the scruff of the repeat offender currently nestled against his neck, looking up at him as if he might take a bite at any moment, and began a serious bout of self-reflection.

…Had he been indulging him too much?

After returning home, Dai Gelan ran into the ex who had been reborn and was waiting for him, or rather, the love he had never let go of.

And Zuo Hui helped him believe that there really was a kind of release that didn’t mean staking everything on one desperate gamble. It meant that on the edge of a cliff, you could catch me, hold me, and share your sunrise with me.

[Note: There isn’t much about the game or competitions. Yizhi is too bad at that stuff; I just want these two to fall in love.]

[No real-life inspirations. All team and member names in the story are made up. Any similarities are purely coincidental.]

★★★Currently serializing a modern BL novel★★★

The Second Shadowmancer: A reckless, shameless loudmouth seme x a solitary, obsessive, unhinged uke who’s only sweet around the seme.

Mutual affection, both powerful, both crazy, and saving each other. Sometimes sharp-tongued and goofy, sometimes serious and ready to fight.

Also known as: The Night My Official Nemesis Arrested Me, He Pinned My Hands Down and Confessed His Love

I Sincerely Think There’s Something Wrong with Him.

If you’re interested, come check it out~

Theme: A weakness can also become armor and a spear when you stand side by side.