My Childhood Friend Is the Protagonist's Love Interest

Ye Mu has a childhood friend he grew up with. He's been secretly in love with him for ages, but his childhood friend is straight, so he never dares cross the line. One day, a guy appears by his childhood friend's side. He quickly takes Ye Mu's place and becomes the person closest to his friend. His once-close childhood friend suddenly starts treating him coldly. Only then does Ye Mu understand. His childhood friend isn't straight. He's just not into him. * Heartbroken, Ye Mu goes home and has a dream that reveals the truth behind everything. It turns out the world he lives in is a novel called Childhood Friends Can't Beat a Newcomer. His childhood friend is the novel's male lead, the top, and he has a fated male lead, the bottom: the newcomer. And Ye Mu is merely a cannon-fodder childhood-friend side character who gets in the way of the main couple's relationship. "..." Ye Mu wakes up terrified by the fate awaiting him in the novel: a gruesome death. Thinking survival is what matters, he decides it's best for this cannon-fodder childhood friend to keep his distance. * Jiang Zhi has a childhood friend he's been secretly in love with for years, but the other guy is straight, so he doesn't dare reveal his feelings. One day, a guy appears by his side and says he can help him test his childhood friend's feelings. Jiang Zhi lets himself be tempted and does as he's told. But who could have guessed that his childhood friend would stop talking to him? * #Childhood friends are the perfect match# #I love my childhood friend, and my childhood friend loves me# [Blurb dated 2021.7.27] Coming soon: I Only Want My Older Brother to Be My Boyfriend Wei Wen is discovered to have been switched at birth and to have no blood relation to the Luo family. His adoptive parents want to cut ties with him and bring their biological son home. His friend comforts him: "Don't be sad." Wei Wen replies: "I'm not sad. Having my brother is enough for me." Wei Wen is sent back to his biological parents, but they only love their adopted son and don't like their biological son. His friend comes to comfort him again: "Don't be upset." Wei Wen is still optimistic. "I'm not upset. I'm living with my brother now, so I don't have to go home." Rumors spread in their circle that Luo Fei has found someone and is about to get married. His friend comes to comfort him yet again: "Don't be sad. Even if Luo Fei gets married, he'll still be your brother." Wei Wen smiles and raises his hand. "Look at the engagement ring Luo Fei bought me. Isn't it pretty?" * Wei Wen has been rejected by his parents his whole life, and his world should have been full of misery. But one person has always stayed by his side, giving him a little piece of the sky that belongs only to him and the warmest, brightest sunlight. The day Wei Wen realizes he's fallen for Luo Fei, he feels as if the sky is falling. He hides his feelings, terrified someone will find out and that he'll see disgust in Luo Fei's eyes. Until one day, drunk, he accidentally reveals what he feels. "Luo Fei, I don't want you to be my brother anymore. I want you to be my boyfriend." After sobering up, he remembers what he said and wishes he could hide away, but Luo Fei grabs his hand. "Where are you running? Your boyfriend is right here." * When Luo Fei is seventeen, he accidentally learns that the younger brother he's doted on as he grew up isn't his biological brother. After a long struggle, he decides to keep it a secret. But when he's eighteen, the truth comes out after all. His younger brother's real identity is exposed. Watching Luo Wen get abandoned by all his family, Luo Fei, newly an adult, decides that he will raise his own little brother. He just doesn't know when their brotherly affection changed into something else. * Innocent, cheerful bottom x calculating, abstinent top Theme: Time can never defeat true love