I Really Didn't Mean to Play Hard to Get with My Dream Guy

Reuniting with Lin Jiyi, the campus heartthrob he'd secretly loved in college, Ye Chuheng hides his pounding heart, says hello, and plans to slip away.

But Lin Jiyi barges into the tiny thirty-square-meter apartment Ye Chuheng rents, refusing to take no for an answer and planning to stay long-term.

Every excuse Ye Chuheng comes up with is easily shut down when Lin Jiyi raises an eyebrow and calmly says, "Ye Xiaoheng, are you refusing to live with me because you like me?"

The apartment really is tiny.

Once the little table holds two laptops, there's no room for two cups. The 1.2-meter single bed is so narrow that one of them will fall off unless they sleep pressed together.

On the first night, Ye Chuheng lies close to the wall, afraid to move.

But when he wakes, Lin Jiyi's arm is across his waist, his warm, heavy breath falling on the back of Ye Chuheng's neck.

From then on, they share breaths and body heat night after night. Some things can't be hidden.

Lin Jiyi catches the desire Ye Chuheng can no longer conceal, and Ye Chuheng loses his reason in the increasingly heated embrace of Lin Jiyi.

Ye Chuheng's days had been cold and barren, like dead ashes, but Lin Jiyi's arrival made them too beautiful.

Yet he knows all too well that the more beautiful something is, the more dangerous it can be.

So even after Lin Jiyi easily sees through his excuse that he has a boyfriend,

even after Lin Jiyi keeps confessing and they keep ending up in bed,

Ye Chuheng is still the same as ever: soft everywhere, but most stubborn of all in what he says.

The Nth time Lin Jiyi presses his lips to Ye Chuheng's and pleads, "Ye Xiaoheng, say you'll be with me,"

Ye Chuheng still turns his head and says:

"No."

"Your mouth says no, but your hand's gripping pretty tight." Lin Jiyi pins down Ye Chuheng's hand, clenched in the bedsheet, his voice low. "It's not that you don't know how to make someone stay. You're just too good at it."

Later, Lin Jiyi stops asking.

He silently packs his things.

Ye Chuheng gathers the charging cables scattered at the corner of the table and puts them in Lin Jiyi's suitcase. "I'll call you a car."

The click of the suitcase latches sounds unusually clear.

Lin Jiyi stops at the door and turns back, his voice trembling. "Baby, hurry up and tell me I'm not allowed to leave."

Ye Chuheng still lowers his eyes and says:

"No."

The door closes softly.

The loneliness Ye Chuheng refuses to admit fills the tiny apartment, now that he's all alone.

When they meet again, Lin Jiyi's gaze is cold and distant. Their former closeness and tender intimacy seem never to have happened.

Ye Chuheng swallows his hurt and tries to act as if nothing happened, but the moment Lin Jiyi's breath brushes past him, his eyes turn red.

He turns to leave.

A long-fingered hand grips the back of his neck. Lin Jiyi's burning breath brushes his ear, and his cool voice carries a warning:

"Say 'no' one more time. Go on, try me."

○ A sensitive, reserved shou who habitually runs away X a dominant, doting, elite gong. 1v1, HE.

❤ The cousin and Engineer Gu's story is in the completed novel The Moonlight of Today Outshines the Past ❤

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Coming soon: Call Me Your Wife!

To save the Xia family's legacy, built over three generations, Xia Qianyan accepts the terms and enters a business marriage with Lin Jinxing, the Lin family's famously useless wastrel.

The day after their engagement, Xia Qianyan becomes Lin Jinxing's special assistant and discovers that Lin Jinxing, the actual CEO, is throwing a party in his office. It's supposedly a farewell-to-single-life writing party, but really it's a drunken orgy.

Without a word, the assistant splashes ice water in the bleary-eyed CEO's face, then trashes his office.

Lin Jinxing explodes. "You really think you're my wife?!"

Xia Qianyan gives him a scornful smile. "Who gave you permission to call me your wife? Until you can beat me, you have to address me respectfully as Your Excellency!"

"And another thing! We can't get divorced until revenue hits the sixty billion your grandfather set. If you want me gone, then work hard and make something of yourself! I'm warning you, no slacking. Get moving!"

From then on, the first thing Lin Jinxing does every morning is check the revenue, even though he'd never cared whether the Lin family was making money or losing it. He grits his teeth and gets down to business, counting on his fingers how many billions he still needs to earn to be free.

He also repeatedly declares, "What wife? One day I'll beat him to the ground, then shove my results in his face and divorce him!"

Xia Qianyan remains just as scornful, waiting to fulfill the agreement with the Lin family, restore the Xia family's fortunes, and give Lin Jinxing the clean break he wants.

When Lin Jinxing accompanies Xia Qianyan back to the Xia family, feeling rather put-upon, he sees Xia Qianyan being bullied by relatives and mistreated by his own cousins. Only then does he understand why Xia Qianyan is such a good fighter.

Furious, Lin Jinxing slams the table and roars, "If any bastard dares lay a finger on my wife again, I'll ruin his life!"

Everyone is stunned, and Xia Qianyan blinks, then smiles faintly. "The CEO looks pretty handsome today."

Later, as Lin Jinxing keeps checking the revenue, he grows increasingly dissatisfied:

"How did we make ten billion? Was it really that easy?"

"We're already at twenty billion? Did you guys forget to pay taxes? The B project needs more investment, right? Whether it does or not, we're investing. Hurry up and spend the money!"

He even goes to negotiate with his grandfather: "Putting my marriage's price at just sixty billion makes me look bad. Raise it. It has to go up! Make it a trillion!"

On the eve of meeting the conditions for divorce, Lin Jinxing gets completely drunk and pins Xia Qianyan down, murmuring plaintively, "I've already earned sixty billion. Can't I still be your husband?"

After waking up with a hangover, he sees the obvious signs of what happened, the mess everywhere, and the divorce agreement Xia Qianyan left behind. Lin Jinxing immediately charters a plane and chases after him overseas.

Xia Qianyan is chatting and laughing by the pool with a man sporting a six-pack, his eyes rippling with flirtation.

Lin Jinxing charges over, stands between Xia Qianyan and the man, and roars, "You bastard, stay away from my wife!"

When Xia Qianyan agrees to the marriage, he firmly warns, "Don't think I'll sleep with you."

Lin Jinxing scoffs. "You're the one who shouldn't imagine I'll fall for you."

Later, they both break their promises.

#A husband trained into a proper man is at least worth keeping#

#Though... my wife is just so irresistible#

○ A focused, decisive, cool-headed shou x a free-spirited, spoiled, willful gong.

Theme: Be brave and honest to create a happy life.