[Ji Xing Ji] Spring Tide, Rainfall

When Atobe Keigo unexpectedly runs into Yukimura Seiichi, he feels that even calling their encounter a "reunion" is unnecessary.

They exchange a casual greeting, just as they did back in school.

Yukimura is still the same. Ten years have passed, and their relationship is somehow even more distant than the two trees outside the U-17 entrance.

That familiar feeling of repeatedly crossing paths at the wrong time rises up again. Atobe had thought that after they parted and disappeared into the vast sea of humanity, he and Yukimura would never meet again.

But after he forcefully acquires nearly half the shares in Yukimura's art studio, the cunning man no longer has any chance of escaping his grasp.

What does it matter if Atobe acts like a terrible majority shareholder? With the shares in hand, surely Yukimura will have to do as he says, right?

As it turns out, Yukimura Seiichi will never learn to be obedient.

That mouth of his can not only drive a person mad, but is also... really good to kiss?

When Atobe finally comes to his senses, he suddenly realizes:

He has slept with Yukimura!

Reality always takes absurd turns. Somehow, even with someone whose true face he can't see, they can agree, "No feelings, no talk of the future."

They think that as long as they write their desires into the rules, their true feelings will stay forever on the other side of the line.

But the gazes and curiosity they never voiced as boys have long since grown, through countless rainy nights, into a love neither of them can let go of.

The spring tide rises of its own accord, waiting only for a rainstorm to spill over the banks.

They still switch.

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Theme: People can draw boundaries around desire, but they cannot stop true feelings from quietly growing each time those boundaries are crossed.