My Talkative Desk Mate Won't Stop Pursuing Me

[Upcoming Novel: The Ballet Prince Won't Be a Substitute (Reborn). Scroll down for the blurb, and visit my page to add it to your collections!] [My ongoing novel next door, The Mansion and the Cheongsam Beauty, is complete. Visit my page to start reading~] [The school romance in the same series, Elopement, is also on my page. Add it to your collections so you don't lose track~] Novel Blurb: A sharp-tongued but soft-hearted, tsundere top and top student-school bully Ding Jinyu X a warm, chatty, faux-underachieving, sunny bottom Ming Xi After eight years living under someone else's roof, Ding Jinyu finally gets his wish and returns to his hometown, where he once had a stable childhood. To avoid transferring schools again and make it through his final two years of high school, he decides to rein in his temper and become a nobody at school this time. But... On the very first day of class, he nearly beats someone up outside the principal's office. It would be bad enough to blow his cover, but someone also gets the wrong idea and thinks he was trying to help him. And, as luck would have it... That "him" becomes his desk mate. His new desk mate is named Ming Xi. He has a warm smile and dimples, but he talks a little too much... Clearly, he's a delicate flower raised in a greenhouse. Ding Jinyu keeps his distance from his new desk mate, who's clearly not someone he would ever get along with. But... His new desk mate just won't stop pursuing him! An accident leaves Ding Jinyu homeless once again, forcing him to move in with Ming Xi. But the warm, loving family he imagined isn't there. He witnesses Ming Xi's brokenness little by little, yet sees that the warm smile with those dimples never fades. Why did Ding Jinyu grow up to be an isolated island amid all the wreckage, while Ming Xi's signature smile could climb onto his windowsill like sunlight before he even noticed? Loneliness doesn't mean you can't long for warmth. The terrifying dependence that quietly takes root finally makes Ding Jinyu panic. Ding Jinyu pins Ming Xi against a tree trunk. Streetlights filter through the sparse branches, and a lone wolf bites down on its prey's neck. Ding Jinyu's eyes are bloodshot. "Ming Xi, I'm warning you. I'm gay. You'd better stay away from me!" "What a coincidence, Ding Jinyu." Ming Xi looks up at him, smiling with dimples. "Does that mean I can pursue you?" Some people, even when surrounded by darkness, are still as radiant as the blazing sun. His childhood healed him for a lifetime, and he also healed the childhood that someone else would otherwise have needed a lifetime to recover from. P.S.: 1. As is customary, one-on-one romance, happy ending, both leads' first relationship. 2. Another story about saving each other, with a warm, healing, slice-of-life tone. 3. The bottom pursues the top, and they dote on each other. One pursues him passionately while the other is secretly in love without realizing it. They both love each other. 4. The author is terrible at writing blurbs, so please give the story itself a chance, qaq. I'll often post extra chapters after it goes behind a paywall, so you don't have to wait for it to build up! Next up: The Ballet Prince Won't Be a Substitute (Reborn), a double-rebirth story with a pursuit-and-regret arc. Please visit my page and add it to your collections! Blurb: Su Bai earned the top score in both categories when he was accepted into a top dance academy in China, causing a sensation across the school. He had a tall, graceful figure and perfect lines, along with an elegant, beautiful face. It wasn't long before he was dubbed the Prince of Ballet. He had countless admirers and a limitless future ahead of him. But in his second year of university, a sudden disaster left both his parents dead and saddled him with debt. Then a contract was placed before him. Someone would pay off his debts, fund his education, respect his social life and personal habits, and provide him with the most luxurious lifestyle throughout university. Su Bai diligently played the part of a kept lover, never daring to overstep his bounds. Their relationship should have ended on the day he graduated, if the other man hadn't been Jiang Tingyan, the senior he'd secretly loved for years. So when Jiang Tingyan took out a diamond ring on the day Su Bai graduated, the ballet prince who had dazzled the stage took off his dance shoes, tied on an apron, and finally gave up cooking to pursue his love. After seven years of marriage, he and Jiang Tingyan still treated each other with formal courtesy. They never had a seven-year itch, but their relationship had always been lukewarm. Then one night, Jiang Tingyan said he had to work late and didn't come home. Su Bai had just finished making soup and wanted to surprise his husband. But outside Jiang Tingyan's office, he saw reporters swarming around him, cameras and microphones thrust forward, and a man sheltered in Jiang Tingyan's arms. The soup in Su Bai's hands spilled all over the ground. Su Bai had seen the man Jiang Tingyan was protecting before, in a graduation photo the other man had treasured for years. He was an outstanding young ballet dancer. At last, Su Bai understood why Jiang Tingyan had approached him all those years ago. As he turned and fled, Su Bai's car plunged into the sea. When he opened his eyes again, Su Bai had been reborn on the day of his university graduation. Looking at the refined and elegant Jiang Tingyan before him, he grabbed the ring that was about to slip onto his ring finger and bind him for life, and threw it into the artificial lake on campus. From the beginning, he had agreed to become Jiang Tingyan's contract lover only so he could stay onstage. In the end, love had tied him to the home instead. Now that he had fulfilled the contract, he and Jiang Tingyan were even. It was time for him to return to the stage. * Jiang Tingyan had a secret, unspoken love, a white moonlight he'd been pining for over many years. The day his white moonlight left for another country, he saw Su Bai... His cool, noble air, unique to ballet dancers, reminded him of that beloved person. When he heard Su Bai was in trouble, he offered him a contract, hoping to make up for the regret in his own life. Su Bai was sensible and obedient, staying by his side for two years. Jiang Tingyan figured everyone had to find a partner eventually, and since his white moonlight was out of reach, Su Bai seemed like a good choice. They spent seven years of marriage treating each other with formal courtesy. Then Su Bai died in a car accident and ended up in a cold morgue. Only then did Jiang Tingyan understand who the one irreplaceable white moonlight in his life truly was. Reborn, he looked at their cold and empty home, and at the engagement ring, pulled from the water and still caked with mud. Su Bai was no longer the "Mrs. Jiang" in an apron, waiting for him to come home. He was now a famous young ballet dancer, beloved by audiences across the country. A beautiful, elegant ballet prince bottom X a rich second-generation CEO top Core Message: Love can heal every wound. I hope everyone can be brave and strong enough to love and be loved.