He's Scared, but He's Just Pretending

[Main story complete] [Please add my upcoming story, "The System Forces Me to Be a Scumbag to the Male Lead [Quick Transmigration]," to your collection!] A young man recently moved into Wen Siyuan's home. He was the younger cousin of a former classmate with whom Wen had once been close. The cousin had a baby face and naturally smiling eyes. He was good-natured, polite, and easy to get along with, though he could be a little absent-minded now and then. For instance, he often forgot to bring a change of clothes when he went to shower, so he'd always call out to Wen Siyuan to bring him some after he was done. For instance, he never remembered to close the door when changing. Even though Wen Siyuan wasn't always home, he'd accidentally walked in on him several times. He was also a little careless. Once, he went out during a rainstorm and forgot to close his bedroom window. When he got home that night, his bed was completely soaked, leaving him nowhere to sleep. With his pillow in his arms, he pitifully squeezed halfway into the doorway of Wen Siyuan's bedroom and asked cautiously, apologetic to the last, "Brother Yuan, the rain soaked my bed. Can I stay in your room tonight?" Besides that, the cousin seemed a little timid. He was scared of horror movies, thunderstorms, and even the occasional flying bug in the house. Sometimes, he would be too startled to move for ages. So on a stormy night after watching a horror movie and encountering a flying bug, the young man once again showed up at Wen Siyuan's door with his pillow. He wore an oversized T-shirt and carefully lay down beside Wen Siyuan's bed. Then, late in the night as thunder rumbled, he slowly and stealthily wormed his way into Wen Siyuan's arms like a thief. After living together for a while, Wen Siyuan had more or less settled on the impression that his cousin was a kind, timid little lamb. That was until one stormy night, when Wen returned from a business trip a day early and unexpectedly saw the young man who had once hidden in his arms during a thunderstorm and covered his eyes with a pillow during horror movies. Now he was reclining comfortably on the sofa, watching a bloody horror scene on TV in the dark, completely unbothered. Just then, someone called the cousin. The young man answered and casually put his phone on the table with speakerphone on. A man's voice came through: "Brother Ming, I heard those three guys you sent to the hospital last week are getting people to surround you next Monday." The young man, who always smiled shyly in front of Wen Siyuan, lounged on the sofa and scoffed. His voice was full of brazen swagger, something Wen had never heard from him before. "Surround me? The hospital Wi-Fi is so good, one week wasn't enough for them?" Listening to the young man, Wen Siyuan remembered the week before, when the young man had stood before him with a split lip, head hanging low, looking like someone who'd been bullied but didn't dare say so. His eyes red and his voice trembling, he'd asked, "Brother Yuan, could you put some medicine on this for me? I can't do it myself. I... I'm afraid it'll hurt." A wolf in sheep's clothing, a deceptively sweet, black-hearted uke x a pure-hearted, slow-witted, health-conscious older seme Older man and younger man, seven-year age gap, both each other's first love Blurb for "The System Forces Me to Be a Scumbag to the Male Lead [Quick Transmigration]" Shen Siyang died at twenty-five. After his death, he was bound to a System called "You Have No Shame." It said his shamelessness in life had far exceeded the norm, so he had been specially selected and granted a chance to be reborn. To be reborn, he had to travel through ten worlds, becoming the person who supported each world's male lead and gave him companionship and warmth. Shen Siyang: Easy. System: Then, when the male lead's reliance on you reaches its peak, cruelly abandon him to spur his growth and transformation. Shen Siyang: ...I mean, I do have at least a little self-respect. [In Shen Siyang's first world, the System tells him to look after the pitiful child next door. The boy stutters, has no parents, and lives with his uncle's family, where he never gets enough to eat or warm clothes to wear and is often abused. Shen Siyang feels sorry for him and keeps him by his side every day, practically raising him like a son. After finally raising the boy into a tall, handsome young man, the boy turns around and directs the second character of his stutter at him. The seme in this world is a loyal puppy at first, then a mad dog. ] [In Shen Siyang's second world, the System sends him to be the assistant of a strange, capricious CEO. Before he took the job, the CEO had already fired 120 assistants in a year, averaging one every three days. With skin as thick as a city wall and a gift for complimenting people without thinking, Shen Siyang manages to survive under the CEO. But one day, he overhears the CEO telling someone, "My assistant definitely wants me for my body." Shen Siyang: ? The seme in this world is self-obsessed at first, then a mad dog. ] [In Shen Siyang's third world, the System makes him the omega fiance chosen by the family for a disabled Alpha big shot. The disabled big shot has a strong sense of pride, a gloomy and eccentric personality, and an intense hatred of arranged marriages and fragile omegas. Shen Siyang thinks this time it'll be easy to walk away when it's over. A few months later, the big-shot Alpha has a change of heart. Every day he releases pheromones until Shen Siyang's legs go weak, and tells him, "You'll never leave me." Shen Siyang: ...Oh, so you weren't the one telling me to get lost every day a few months ago? The seme in this world is cold at first, then a mad dog. ] A sharp-tongued, quick-to-flip, easily riled uke who falls hard x a reserved, taciturn seme 1. A silly romantic Quick Transmigration story. The uke's personality is a bit absurd and playful. 2. The seme is the same person throughout. As the worlds progress, the relationship between the seme and uke develops gradually. Theme: Life is full of unexpected things.