[Up Next: Before I Marry My Husky Childhood Friend, a slow-burn campus romance with guaranteed sweetness! Please add it to your reading list!]
University graduate Lin Yujiang spent six months studying late into the night, then headed to the civil service exam fully prepared.
But he got hit by a car on the way and transmigrated. A bona fide straight man, he'd landed in a gay showbiz novel.
Lin Yujiang was furious. He'd even quit his job to prepare for this civil service exam!
System: Once you complete the mission, you'll be sent straight back to the road leading to the exam venue.
Lin Yujiang: By then, I'll have forgotten everything, damn it!
System: Congratulations, Host. You have acquired the male lead Jiang Hongcheng's exceptionally well-endowed body, an acting career in ruins, a pair of useless parents, a scumbag ex-boyfriend, and a whole internet full of haters...
Jiang Hongcheng: And a wonderful boyfriend.
Lin Yujiang: Aaaaaah!! Dude, weren't you dead?! I... should I give your body back?
Jiang Hongcheng: It's fine, baby. You can keep using it. Hmm? What did you do? Why am I trending again?
Lin Yujiang: You're a real bro! With two minds in one body, there's no way we can't win that Best Actor award back for you!
Jiang Hongcheng never expected that, when all hope was lost, he would develop a split personality. The personality that emerged was like a little sun, confident and cheerful, radiating love for life. Everything he liked was there in this new personality. With a second personality, Jiang Hongcheng was never lonely again, and everything in his life started getting better. But gradually, he began to develop feelings for that little sun that he shouldn't have.
Manager: Jiang Hongcheng, what are you doing with your phone? Stop checking the trending topics. Don't pay attention to all that... Why are you doing civil service exam questions again?! Can you stop thinking about quitting showbiz and changing careers every single day?
Fan: This is terrifying. I saw my idol at a civil service exam prep class again today.
Lin Yujiang's friend: You went out to take a civil service exam. How did you come back gay?
Two souls in one body, each falling for the other. Guaranteed sweetness, no angst~
Cool, capable actor in the original body as the pursuer x cheerful, optimistic civil service exam candidate who transmigrated as the one pursued
Note: The characters' views are shaped by their experiences and do not represent the author's own.
[Before I Marry My Husky Childhood Friend]
When Jun Jianwei was six, his daily routine consisted of reading Three Character Classic, One Hundred Thousand Whys, and introductory Olympiad math books, learning calligraphy from famous masters, and playing the piano.
An Jing was a year older. At the same age, his daily routine involved spinning tops, playing with picture cards and marbles, and blowing up cow dung.
As the old saying goes, birds of a feather flock together.
On the first day Jun Jianwei met An Jing, he knew they weren't alike and wouldn't get along.
"I never want to play with them again," Jun Jianwei sobbed to his grandfather, covered in cow dung after an explosion.
But from the first moment An Jing saw Jun Jianwei, the Milky Way dimmed, leaving only one dazzling star.
An Jing stubbornly clung to this connection for twelve years, all on his own.
Beneath the sky of their eighteenth year, An Jing and Jun Jianwei secretly shared sweet, hidden kisses, away from the crowds, in school bathroom stalls, empty classrooms, and their bedrooms at home.
"I love you so much."
When they met again, there was a vast gulf between them. Their status, standing, outlook, and education all seemed to consign them to different worlds.
But they had met too young. An Jing had forcibly claimed Jun Jianwei's entire childhood and youth, becoming the vessel for all the feelings he could offer in those innocent years. Those feelings had burned so fiercely that the slightest touch was enough to rekindle them at once.
I am standing right in front of you. How much do I look like the person I used to be? An Jing, bedraggled and disheveled, gazed silently at the polished, respectable Jun Jianwei and thought bitterly.
Jun Jianwei grabbed An Jing's rebellious face without ceremony. "Tsk. After all these years, how are you still this stupid?"
Cool, aloof, gorgeous pursuer x passionate, goofy, handsome pursued
Guaranteed sweetness, younger pursuer, one-on-one, happy ending. Slow burn.
Theme: Life is hard, so learn to seek salvation
Well written, I read it in one sitting
The big words are so sweet! It's just that Jinjiang is so annoying! Not having a car is really more uncomfortable than being castrated.
Good looking!!!!! The two of them are destined to be together. It's so healing. I really feel how Xiaolin healed Xiaojiang. The author, I will love you forever??????
It's great to watch hehe, I love the last episode so much hahahaha
After staying up late to watch it, I twisted into maggots in bed. I couldn't watch enough.
It's beautiful and quite sweet. It's just a sweet article.
Super pretty! It's just so short. Did you finish reading it in half a day?
Spreading flowers [Spreading flowers] Xiao Jiang and Xiao Lin are so beautiful 99
It's such a sweet article, but why do I want to cry so much 😭
I didn't expect there would be an update.