Who's the Stand-In?

Hero's perspective:

Xue Shaozhan picked up a mute beauty from a bar who looked a lot like his first love. The beauty was usually rather aloof, but after the two of them slept together, he would become clingy and insist on sleeping in Xue Shaozhan's arms.

At first, Xue Shaozhan thought the beauty was with him for his money. Later, he realized the beauty seemed to like him.

He was secretly pleased, but still treated the man as a stand-in, until the beauty was so devastated by his callousness that he tried to kill himself.

Xue Shaozhan felt heartbroken and regretful, and admitted he had fallen for him. He turned over a new leaf, stayed faithful, and took tender, attentive care of the beauty. Then one day, the beauty handed him a bank card and said, "Let's break up."

Xue Shaozhan: !!! You can talk?

??? You want to break up!

Wait, why is there so much money in this account?

Beauty's perspective:

A fire took Yan Xi's entire family from him, leaving him withdrawn, listless, and unwilling to speak.

One day, he met a man at a bar who looked a lot like his late older brother. In a daze, he went home with him. After they started living together, he treated the man as a sleeping aid for his insomnia.

Later, his grief over his family led to depression, and he tried to kill himself. When he woke up, he found that Xue Shaozhan had inexplicably become clingy and followed him around every day. It annoyed him so much that, unable to stand it any longer, he asked Xue Shaozhan to break up.

Unexpectedly, a little over a month later, he discovered he was pregnant. He couldn't have an abortion, or he would die.

Yan Xi: ???

Content warning: Not for readers who require the characters to be sexually inexperienced.

Theme: Saving each other