[Prince of Tennis] Taking a Step Back, Can't Friends Kiss?

Reader’s guide: 1. An all-cast Prince of Tennis fic, 1Vn, mainly focused on Rikkai. There are currently seven planned male leads, who will appear in turn. The ending will be open, with each character’s ending covered in the extras. 2. The story mainly follows the heroine’s perspective (with two sections in third person early on). It focuses on romantic tension and push-and-pull, with no actual romantic relationships. 3. Since this is a reverse-harem romance, of course she’ll welcome everyone into her heart. The heroine won’t waver between the male leads; she’ll love each of them wholeheartedly, though each love will be different. 4. Not a conventional everyone-loves-the-heroine story, nor a power fantasy. The heroine has no golden finger; she has limitations and a character-growth arc. 5. Set during the second year of middle school and in a university setting, with some original details. I’ll do my best to keep everyone in character. 6. Regular updates, and I will never abandon this story. Muye Xizi has a condition. More precisely, she has a craving for kisses. It’s similar to skin hunger, except that the latter can be satisfied by hugs and cuddling, while Xizi craves the lingering touch of lips. This condition, which can hardly be called an illness, has grown more severe as she’s gotten older. If she goes too long without kissing someone, stress builds up, she spends every night sleepless, her complexion deteriorates, and it affects her whole aura. Back in middle school, she could ease it with the clumsy kisses of her first boyfriend, but after starting university, Xizi became single, and no one could openly help her “relieve the pressure” anymore. Xizi isn’t unable to find a boyfriend. On the contrary, she’s always had plenty of admirers, but she’s turned them all down. She doesn’t want to agree to date someone just for the sake of kissing. Dating means taking responsibility, and she hates taking responsibility. If she only let someone into her life for a kiss, what would that make him guilty of? If only she could kiss someone without dating them… The thought crossed Xizi’s mind, and suddenly everything clicked. The problem that had troubled her for so long was solved. Right! All she had to do was cast off the shackles of love and morality and become a bad woman by society’s standards. With those shackles broken, all that remained was finding someone to kiss. Xizi searched her mind and eventually settled on her classmate, Niou Masaharu. Theme: When a kiss is a physical need, not a sign of falling in love