Idol Retires and Returns Home to Get Married

[Reading guide: Realistic oil painter uke × retired idol seme

Childhood neighbors and friends + younger seme with a secret crush + long-planned pursuit]

Most people forced into blind dates either go through the motions or treat it like a huge ordeal.

Qi Sizhou is different. His approach is: "So, do you need a meal buddy?"

Qi Sizhou spent two years turning his blind dates into meal buddies.

During those two years, he and every blind date came to a mutual understanding: they'd part on good terms after trying all the delicious food near the other person's home.

By sheer coincidence, this time his blind date was a fellow alumnus.

Since they went to the same school, they ought to help each other out.

Qi Sizhou: "Your family forced you into this blind date, too?"

Song Yiming: "Yeah."

Qi Sizhou: "Then would you like to..."

Song Yiming: "Yeah."

Qi Sizhou: "I haven't finished."

Song Yiming: "I'm fine with anything."

Song Yiming left home when he was young and spent several years abroad as an idol in a boy band.

Later, the band disbanded because they were too unpopular, and the company terminated his contract after he was caught up in a scandal.

Not long after returning to his homeland, Song Yiming joined the ranks of people going on blind dates.

However, these dates weren't quite what he had imagined.

Looking through their chat history, nine and a half out of every ten messages were about food. Their dates were all about eating, eating, and more eating. There was no way to build a relationship like this.

Finally, one day, he couldn't take it any longer and confronted the other man.

Song Yiming: "Can we stop going out to eat?"

Qi Sizhou: "Oh."

Song Yiming: "So, do you get what I mean?"

Qi Sizhou: "I get it."

Song Yiming: "Good. Then we..."

Qi Sizhou: "You mean break up, right?"

They didn't just stay together, they almost got married.

Oh, wait. Not almost. They really did get married.

Theme: The gods gave me everlasting light, but all I want is my muse.