My Childhood Friend Is the Male Lead's Love Interest

Upcoming: Back to the Year My Man Was the School Bully, The Villain's Fortune Is Mine to Manage [Interstellar]

Synopsis: 1. The overworked office drone Song Chi didn't find out until he was twenty-four that he was living in a danmei rebirth novel. The reborn protagonist, a shou, gives up on his former lover, who went bankrupt in his previous life and then lived off his savings, and instead uses his golden finger to pursue the Xiao family's illegitimate son. No one believed in the son at first, but he eventually becomes the richest man in the country. The protagonist gets revenge on his enemies and wins both love and success.

Song Chi insists this has nothing to do with him. He's one hundred percent sure he's just an unnamed passerby in the book. He lives his ordinary, peaceful life.

Until...

The Xiao family's illegitimate son suddenly shows up at his company. Song Chi is so startled he nearly stumbles.

Xiao Su catches him. "Long time no see, Song Chi," he says with a smile.

Song Chi: "Long time no see..."

Good heavens! His childhood friend is the novel's protagonist gong!

2. Xiao Su lived in a cramped apartment block from the age of seven to sixteen. A boy his age lived next door. That boy changed the flavor of his bitter childhood, making it like a plum candy melting in his mouth, both sour and sweet.

They were apart for eight years, and he missed him for all eight. Unrequited love is a tree that grows wildly. After their long-awaited reunion, he felt that the tree was finally ready to bear fruit.

[An earnest gong determined to win his childhood friend's heart and make it last × a shou who's long since bent like a mosquito coil and doesn't even realize it]

Tip: The shou has a somewhat complicated background, with plenty of melodrama.

Upcoming 1: Back to the Year My Man Was the School Bully

Synopsis: 1. Fu Yao's man, Chu Chen, used to be a gang leader, ruling the streets and causing a sensation. He'd been hauled in by the police several times and had countless enemies. After getting together with Fu Yao, he turned his life around and opened a small shop, hoping to live a quiet, ordinary life. But only a few days after opening, an enemy stabbed him to death. As he lay dying, he held Fu Yao's hand, bloody and smiling bitterly. "My biggest regret in life was taking the wrong path... I never went to college..."

Fu Yao was reborn and returned to the age of sixteen. This time, he would find his man early, stop him from dropping out of high school, make sure he studied hard and got into his dream college, and keep him away from the life he'd led in his previous life, so he could avoid being stabbed to death.

"He said he was a little punk back in school," Fu Yao recalled Chu Chen saying. Chu Chen didn't like to talk about his past, only occasionally bringing up a few things jokingly when they were caught up in the moment.

Fu Yao thought that at this point Chu Chen was just a student. However much of a punk he was, how bad could he be? He'd appeal to his emotions and reason, and patiently guide him onto the right path. But when he first met the teenage Chu Chen, the boy was blocking him in the bathroom with a few lackeys, wearing a smug grin as he extorted protection money!

Fu Yao: "..."

Maybe I should just beat Chu Chen to death!

2. Chu Chen thought the new kid, Fu Yao, was crazy. Not only did he stop him from skipping class, fighting, and extorting protection money, he even tried to make him study! "Who do you think you are? You want me to kill you?"

But he never imagined that one day he'd pin Fu Yao in a corner, pleading for forgiveness. "Why are you ignoring me? I've been studying like you told me to every day!"

Without Fu Yao, he'd go crazy!

Tip: 1. Set in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

2. They save each other.

3. No romance between minors.

Upcoming 2: The Villain's Fortune Is Mine to Manage

Synopsis: 1. Only after Lin Chuan died did he learn that he was a cannon-fodder character who'd been killed off early in a danmei novel. The protagonist shou was his half-brother. Their father wanted to seize the assets left by Lin Chuan's mother, so he framed Lin Chuan and had him imprisoned, then arranged for him to be assassinated on the way to a prison planet.

After Lin Chuan's death, his younger brother used their father's favor and the things their mother had left behind to shine in the Empire, becoming a celebrated star. In the end, he married the eldest prince, who had ascended to the throne.

Lin Chuan was reborn on the way to the prison planet. He fought his way out, and as the starship exploded, he seized an escape pod and saved his own life. But to his utter surprise, the man who escaped with him was the story's greatest villain: the space pirate Qi Mo, who was hanged by the eldest prince at the very end.

"Let's work together!" Lin Chuan offered Qi Mo an olive branch. They'd change their fates together and take down those bastards!

Instead, Qi Mo grabbed him by the throat. "A useless piece of trash from the Imperial Star dares to talk business with me?"

2. Qi Mo had no good feelings toward anyone from the Imperial Star. He'd planned to knock out this guy who dared suggest they work together, then walk away without a backward glance. But suddenly, a mechanical voice appeared in his mind: "Fortune value decreased by 10." Then a piece of molten iron came flying at him.

Qi Mo discovered that this kid named Lin Chuan controlled his fortune. And changes to his fortune value depended on all kinds of things, such as how close he was to Lin Chuan, how he treated him, and Lin Chuan's mood.

What a joke. The great space pirate was being held in check by someone weaker than him. Once he figured out how to break free, he'd make sure to kill him!

3. Later,

Lin Chuan: "I heard you wanted to kill me?"

Qi Mo: "I didn't! I wasn't! I love you too much to ever think that! Who's spreading rumors? Step forward! I'll kill the bastard!"

Lin Chuan: "Sleep outside the door!"

After that,

Lin Chuan: "Didn't I tell you to sleep outside?!"

Qi Mo: "Boo-hoo... I have a sleepwalking condition that only acts up when I sleep outside. Climbing through the door in the middle of the night and getting into bed with you isn't my fault."

Tip: Interstellar world with supernatural abilities

Theme: Be kind to others and help the weak, and you'll earn their respect.