My Secret Crush on My Childhood Friend Backfired

My next novel, Back to When My Rich Boyfriend Was Down on His Luck, is coming soon. Please add it to your list, mwah!

Before he turned seventeen, Qi Xia was straight as an arrow. After seventeen, he bent like a spring.

What set it off? He accidentally saw his childhood friend being kissed by the school belle (much later, he found out they hadn't actually kissed. It was just the angle).

The moment Qi Xia realized he was gay, he was dumbfounded.

His big brother had said he hated gay people.

Qi Xia nervously kept his feelings in check and worked his way into Han Yang's life as a well-behaved little brother, constantly teetering on the edge of having his secret crush go horribly wrong, until...

Han Yang saw the confession letter he'd written.

Qi Xia: I'm not! I didn't! I'm straight as an arrow!

Han Yang: Oh? Is there another guy named Han Yang whom you call Big Brother?

Qi Xia: QAQ...

Lu Jiayao once asked the top student at Han University why he didn't skip grades, since he was so brilliant.

She remembered the usually aloof boy smiling with an unusual tenderness.

He was waiting for a silly boy to slowly catch up with him, so they could walk on together.

Reading Guide:

1. Mutual secret crushes at school, with an obvious one-sided arrow and plenty of sweetness.

2. The top has a reason for hating gay people. It'll be explained and resolved later in the story, and his feelings for the bottom are genuine.

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My next novel, Back to When My Rich Boyfriend Was Down on His Luck:

Shen He and Zhou Xian had been together for five years. Just before they were due to register their marriage, Shen He accidentally discovered one of Zhou Xian's secrets: Zhou Xian still couldn't forget his first love.

That first love had helped him through a dark period and left an indelible mark on his heart.

That night, Shen He waited at home for Zhou Xian to come back so they could confront each other. But in the blink of an eye, everything around him changed. Shen He realized he'd gone back twenty years.

Back then, the Zhou family was still immensely powerful, but Shen He knew Mr. Zhou was about to hit the lowest point of his life.

Under the guise of humanitarian concern (and secretly investigating the first love), Shen He, the tutor, arrived at the Zhou household and suddenly discovered...

The adult Zhou Xian was wise, composed, and steady, with the charming bearing of a mature man shaped by time.

The teenage Zhou Xian was irritable, hot-tempered, and arrogantly self-important, with the bewildering confidence of a sheltered brat who'd never been beaten down by society.

Shen He [coldly]: Is this fiance of mine even worth keeping?

Whenever teenage Zhou Xian made Shen He so mad he felt ready to die all over again, adult Zhou Xian would pop up to kiss him, hug him, and beg for forgiveness. The situation became a complete love triangle.

Shen He [numb]: Might as well make do. What else can I do, break up with myself?

As for the first love, Shen He thought he'd kept the so-called rival in love from getting any chance after transmigrating. Then one day, he found the notebook recording Zhou Xian's little secrets again!

[The top's POV]

A young tutor joined the Zhou household. He was cool and aloof, gorgeous, and long-legged. Zhou Xian fell for him at first sight.

But Shen He was much stricter than he'd expected, and the chuunibyou teenager Zhou Xian began to suspect that Shen He looked down on him.

Young Master Zhou had never suffered such humiliation. Furious, he gathered a group of friends to gang up against Tutor Shen.

Until one day, he woke up to find himself face-to-face with the beautiful Shen He, their legs entangled, with a huge hickey on Shen He's sexy Adam's apple!

Zhou Xian [furious]: ??? Did he get framed and cheated on?!

His friends: Zhou, be angry all you want, but don't suspect us!

Goofy CEO top VS cool, aloof beauty bottom

Note: Both the top and bottom transmigrate back in time. Something goes wrong during the top's transmigration, so his memories don't properly fuse, splitting him into an adult version and a younger version. The two versions of him compete for his wife, but they're the same person all along. Their memories will eventually merge.

My currently updating novel, After Raising the Obsessive Male Lead, I Faked My Death [Book Transmigration], and my completed novel, Transmigrated as the Scum Top's Substitute Husband [Book Transmigration], are also available to read~

Theme: A positive, hopeful secret crush can inspire you to make progress, improve yourself, and become a better person.