Also known as: A Genius Romance Mind Game Between Drivers
[This story is the product of the author's passion. It has an F1 racing backdrop, but not much racing, and focuses on romance. You can cut me some slack for writing about such a niche subject as F1, right?]
Official blurb:
The first shocking crash of the new F1 season
Involving two drivers from the Caesius team,
Jiang Zhaoye and Andrei Yilin
The two top drivers have been bitter rivals for ages, notorious enemies on the track. But in the new season, they're forced to become teammates. In their first home race, they collide in a spectacular wreck. Sparks fly, debris scatters across the track, and the whole scene is a grisly mess.
As the crowd watches in trepidation, Andrei Yilin tears open the mangled frame of a race car worth hundreds of millions of dollars, climbs out, smashes off his helmet, grabs Jiang Zhaoye by the collar, and yanks him out of the car before swinging at him in a rage.
The officials are too late to stop them. All they can do is gasp.
In front of countless cameras,
Jiang Zhaoye blocks his teammate's punch, then pulls him into his arms the next second.
--It turns out to be a tight embrace, so tight they're both trembling.
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Everyone knows that F1's two top drivers, Jiang Zhaoye and Andrei Yilin, have an atrocious relationship.
They trade barbs before races and mock each other afterward. On the track, they chase each other down, wishing they could simply ram the other to death.
In the new season, Andrei sweeps into the Caesius team with a fat wallet and an arrogant attitude, becoming Jiang Zhaoye's teammate.
Their haters applaud and cheer them on, eager to watch the drama unfold. They want the Caesius teammates to fight until both cars have to retire. What a show that would be!
--Only a handful of longtime fans know that Jiang Zhaoye and Andrei grew up together as childhood sweethearts.
At eighteen, Jiang Zhaoye is interviewed and asked who his closest friend is. He smiles and looks at Andrei without hesitation.
The Slavic boy with black curls and green eyes puts an arm around his Chinese teammate and raises an arrogant brow at the reporter, possessive as if it's only natural.
Some F1-inspired fiction
Synopsis:
The top and bottom are both F1 drivers. They trained together and grew up as childhood sweethearts.
The top's dad is a Russian oligarch, a rich oil tycoon. The top is a young oil baron, a Russian homophobe with billions of dollars in assets, or so he thinks. He believes he and the bottom share a brotherly bond that could move heaven and earth, unaware that the bottom is secretly jealous of him while also coveting him.
The bottom has always thought he was jealous of the top, this impossibly privileged dragon among men. He never expected jealousy to turn into love. Unable to keep being the top's best friend, he decisively says goodbye and runs off, then starts sabotaging the top on the track in all kinds of ways, because it makes him feel better. Bro, I'm really not gay. I'm jealous of you, I hate you, bro. I don't love you, bro.
This is the story of two bastards who turn love into hate, then hate into love, in a pure-love, pure-hate, sex-and-violence kind of mess.
You'll get to see:
A gay man falling for a straight man and turning him gay
A homophobic Russian and a vicious gay man
Mixed martial arts and Mortal Kombat on the racetrack
The duality of a nemesis and a wife
Childhood sweethearts getting back together after a breakup
A legendary reunion after a century apart in the paddock
Reading notes:
1. I couldn't come up with the old blurb, so I replaced it. Feel free to pick this one up.
2. I've been short on inspiration and busy with real life, so I haven't started a story in a long time. This is a warm-up.
3. I've followed F1 for a while, and the movie finally inspired me to write. This isn't professional at all, so experts, please point out anything inaccurate. I might not change it, though, since a lot of things are there for the plot. If this story gets you interested in F1, I'll be immensely grateful.
4. This is going to be a somewhat deranged, melodramatic story that focuses on romance: Russia's most devoted lover versus China's most devoted lover. The plot is just seasoning, and all my technical knowledge comes from Google and Baidu, so even readers who've never watched F1 should be able to follow. The setting is over-the-top and the characters are extreme, so please bear with me. Thank you.
5. A lethal dose of translationese, fucking words, sexting, and a little complicated English.
6. I've always written pure romance, but because the story needs conflict, the top has had many girlfriends and starts out as a very typical straight man. He's incredibly rich and doted on, a little oil-empire princess. The bottom is very twisted, hypocritical, vicious, and ambitious, and often sabotages the top. In short, this is a pure-hate story: from pure love to pure hate, then to sex, and finally back to pure love.
That's all. Please only read if you're okay with all of this. If any of it bothers you, please leave.
Please make absolutely sure you're okay with this before reading! Please make absolutely sure you're okay with this before reading! Please make absolutely sure you're okay with this before reading!
If the characters upset you and you blame the author, I'll hide somewhere without any light and cry quietly, then delete your comment. Thank you.
Theme: The healing power of love