The Face-Blind Heartthrob Is Pretending to Be Gloomy

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Yu Shu is known around the foreign languages college for being gloomy and antisocial. The campus heartthrob, Lu Lingfeng, has been in the same class as him for two years, and they have never interacted.

At a psychological salon event, the two unexpectedly become each other's guardian angels.

Lu Lingfeng thinks Yu Shu is a little hard to get along with, but since they're classmates, talking to him shouldn't be too difficult. Then they run into each other off campus...

Yu Shu is standing in front of a camera, his gloomy, long bangs brushed back to reveal a pair of eyes brimming with charm.

The next second, Yu Shu suddenly comes up to him and studies him carefully before declaring, "I've never seen you before. I don't know you."

Lu Lingfeng: "...I'm your classmate, Lu Lingfeng."

Yu Shu: "."

*

Yu Shu was born with prosopagnosia. Afraid of offending people, he pretends to be gloomy and keeps his distance from others, struggling to survive campus life.

But he still slips up, and the person he does it with is Lu Lingfeng, the famous campus heartthrob and his guardian angel.

Yu Shu finally catches Lu Lingfeng wearing a jacket he recognizes and works up the courage to go apologize. He pours out his heartfelt apology without giving the other person a chance to respond, then leaves.

Lu Lingfeng, who has been watching from behind Yu Shu and the passerby wearing the same jacket, finally gets it:

Yu Shu isn't arrogant. He's severely face-blind.

*

In the new academic year, Yu Shu cuts his bangs and gives a welcome speech to the incoming students. His breathtakingly beautiful eyes dazzle the entire school, and suddenly he has countless admirers, making his already difficult life even harder.

In the backstage storage room, Yu Shu's eyes are red-rimmed, his forehead resting against Lu Lingfeng's shoulder. He looks thoroughly bullied and speaks in fits and starts: "I-I won't mistake you for someone else next time..."

Lu Lingfeng, fake gentleman and real jealous type: "It doesn't matter. I'll find a way to make you remember me."

1. A gloomy-seeming, secretly popular, emotionally clueless and face-blind receiver x a composed and restrained top in public, but a jealous, teasing flirt in private

2. Each other's first love, devoted to one another, happy ending, sweet romance

3. The receiver is face-blind. There will be no medical miracle, just a tiny bit of improvement through training

4. A story of personal growth, with imperfect main characters

Upcoming novel:

When Qiao Qiao graduates from university, he falls out with his family over what to do with his future. His friend takes matters into their own hands and signs him up for an outdoor driving tour to clear his head in the Great Northwest, supposedly asking a distant cousin to look after him.

As soon as he arrives at the meeting point, Qiao Qiao, mildly socially anxious and severely homebound, is already half-dead. He hurriedly calls his friend.

"Help!! There are so many cars here, and so many people. It's so, " Before he can finish, he spots a tall man, nearly 1.9 meters, leaning against the hood of a heavy-duty Wrangler. The man has one foot on an off-road tire and is smoking, his black tank top barely containing his bulging chest muscles.

Without thinking, Qiao Qiao says, "So big."

Apparently noticing his gaze, the man puts out his cigarette and walks toward him.

His friend asks over the phone, puzzled, "What's so big?"

Qiao Qiao snaps back to his senses, his face turning bright red. "...The car. The car is so big."

Then he hangs up, even forgetting to ask for his cousin's license plate number.

"Qiao Qiao?" The man stops in front of him, standing like a wall, and holds out a broad hand. "Need a hand?"

Head bowed, Qiao Qiao gives him his suitcase. "Th-thank you."

*

Ever since he was little, Qiao Qiao has been the good kid in the eyes of his teachers and parents. The most daring thing he's ever done is secretly set off on the Qinghai-Gansu loop without telling his parents.

But he doesn't regret it at all, because he meets Qin Xiao on the trip, a free, uninhibited and untamed spirit unlike anyone he's ever known.

Qin Xiao takes him to chat with herders, ride horses across the grasslands, sandboard down Singing Sand Mountain, stroll through the Gobi Desert, and kiss beneath the prayer flags in Delingha.

Qin Xiao finds it funny that Qiao Qiao is murmuring something while kissing her. "What are you saying?"

Like a middle-schooler caught sneaking around with a crush, Qiao Qiao stares blankly and holds up his phone. "My mom's calling. W-what do I do?"

"..."

*

Qiao Qiao gets plenty out of the trip. He sees breathtaking scenery, tries all kinds of delicious food, and, as a bonus, falls into a passionate romance.

His only worry is that he still hasn't figured out how to explain to his friend that he's become his "cousin-in-law."

But when they meet, his friend apologetically gives him a hug. "Qiao Bao, I'm sorry you had to go through that. My brother's crappy Santana should have been replaced ages ago!"

Qiao Qiao goes blank again.

Huh?? What Santana? Didn't he get into a Wrangler? 0.0

Qiao Qiao x Qin Xiao

Good boy x wild man, older top, devoted to one another, happy ending, light and sweet road-trip romance

Theme: Don't judge by appearances