We're Just Getting What We Want

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After wrapping up a shoot abroad, newly crowned Best Actor Yin Hua went to a bar to unwind and ran into a young man who was dead drunk.

The man tipped back half a glass of whiskey. As the burn scorched his throat, he boldly asked, "Want to hook up?"

Yin Hua: ?

Did he mean the kind of hookup Yin Hua thought he meant?

Only later did he learn that this was the table tennis demon king who had just lost the Olympic gold medal.

They met again at a banquet.

One raised a toast, the other kept him company. They looked like a perfectly matched couple.

On the way back to the hotel, desire burned hot and urgent.

After a night of wild passion, one of them said, "Since neither of us wants a hassle, why not become regular partners? You'll be filming for half a year, and I'll be in training for a few months. No strings attached. It works out perfectly."

People called newly crowned Best Actor Yin Hua an obsidian statue displayed in the world of wealth and fame: expensive and cold.

Until someone shattered his mask with a palm calloused from gripping a paddle, then branded his heart with lips that tasted of fresh fragrance and sweat, leaving a mark that would never heal.

The media praised world champion Zhong Ruohuai as an athlete with nerves of steel, straight out of a textbook.

They didn't know that when desire took hold, he would tear into his prey like a wild leopard. On rainy nights after a loss, he'd curl up like a little beast and brush his damp lashes against Yin Hua's neck. "Yin Hua, teach me how to win..."

The man's ragged breaths and tears were all for the court. Even the force with which he bit Yin Hua's Adam's apple when he lost control seemed like a rebellion against fate.

They both knew their supposed arrangement as bed partners was a lie. Yin Hua traveled thousands of miles just to give him a warm embrace after a loss, while Zhong Ruohuai stood up to the media just to speak his honest mind.

The clash that began with pure chemistry had long since gone off script.

Bonus scene:

At a post-match press conference, a reporter asked Zhong Ruohuai about the red marks on his neck and his relationship with someone in particular.

The world champion turned the plain ring on his left ring finger and smiled happily. "I'm very happy, and very much in love. Thank you for your concern. Please keep following my matches."

Before you read:

- A one-on-one pairing of two equally strong leads, from physical gamesmanship to a meeting of souls

- A cool on the outside, warm on the inside, newly crowned Best Actor as the pursuing partner x a sincere, looks-loving world champion as the pursued partner

- An alternate modern world where same-sex marriage is legal, with some fictionalized elements in the sports events

- At heart, a story about adults using their sharpest edges to fall in love in the gentlest way

Theme: The most tactful distance between adults