[Prince of Tennis, Tezuka BG] Roses and Gourds

February 15, 2020

I made a few small revisions to the first volume.

Blurb:

When Fanny falls for Tezuka Kunimitsu, Ye Xin says: You can't force a melon to be sweet.

Fanny: At least it'll still be a melon!

Ye Xin: It won't be sweet.

Fanny: Too sweet and it'll rot your teeth. I like them unsweet! And chilled, too.

Ye Xin: What if it's bitter?

Fanny: Then I'll... steal the vine and take it home to grow!

Ye Xin: Oh... how many years in prison for theft? Let's calculate how much that melon is worth first...

Fanny: It's priceless.

But the girl who kept going on about stealing the vine built a little cabin in the melon patch. She quietly watched over the melon, fertilized it, weeded, loosened the soil, and even chased off anyone who tried to take it from her.

Later, before the melon had ripened, she secretly took a bite. Before she could even taste it properly, she suddenly lost her nerve and ran away.

Later still, the vine tied her up and took her home.

Tezuka Kunimitsu once saw an exceedingly beautiful rose, a dazzling, passionate red.

Though it wasn't his favorite flower, he still admired its beauty from afar.

But as the rose drew closer and closer, he was finally captivated by its rich fragrance and lost himself in it.

Yet he knew he could never pluck that rose.

Later, the rose was placed before him, flower and pot together.

So he naturally picked up the whole pot and took it away.

Tokugawa Kazuya: ...What am I supposed to say?

This is a serious story! Only the blurb is silly. The male lead is Tezuka, and the female lead is three years older than him. She's a pro tennis player who keeps finding creative ways to throw herself at an iceberg.

It mainly follows the protagonists' professional tennis careers and personal growth after U-17. There are both matches and everyday moments, with the occasional silly plotline.

Extremely slow burn, extremely slow burn, extremely slow burn.

And the plot direction is pretty unpredictable...

The female lead is strong, but not mindlessly overpowered, and her playing style is unpredictable. She's beautiful, but she doesn't have a bunch of princes falling for her. The one she's interested in doesn't care about looks.

Tokugawa Kazuya has a ton of scenes, but this isn't an incest story. Their relationship follows a heartwarming family route.

None of the other princes will be turned into foolish second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, or seventh male leads who are infatuated with the female lead. She sees them all as little brothers. And there won't be any second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, or seventh female leads trying to get between Tezuka and the heroine.

The other princes will make occasional cameo appearances.

A companion story, Tokugawa's BL romance, "365 Letters," is in preparation.

I've finally posted this and unleashed it on everyone.

Updates on Tieba are faster, and there are already thirty or forty chapters, but I'm a compulsive reviser. I reset a whole lot of the earlier chapters and changed them so much I don't even recognize them myself.

So it's basically a rewrite.

For now, updates will probably be once a week, with 2,000 to 4,000 characters each time.