After Going Bankrupt, My Nemesis Took Me In

[Chapter comments are open. My next novel, How Can the Protagonist Bottom Look at Me Like That?, opens on 9/14. The full draft is complete, and I'm working on the one after that, I Just Want to Stay Alive as a Remnant of the Former Dynasty.]

Novel blurb:

The Fu family goes bankrupt, and Fu Xingye, once a flamboyant young master, ends up on the streets with nowhere to go.

Suddenly, a black Cullinan pulls up in front of him.

Gu Chi, his longtime rival, gets out and asks if he wants to come home with him.

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Fu Xingye and Gu Chi come from similar backgrounds and attended the same schools from high school through college, but their personalities couldn't be more different.

One is cheerful and flamboyant, the other cool and refined.

Fu Xingye has always thought Gu Chi looked down on him. Ever since high school, Gu Chi has kept showing up in front of him, acting superior and provoking him.

Later, after Gu Chi takes him in, Fu Xingye talks about it with his livestream viewers.

Viewer: Why do I get the feeling he's showing off like a peacock...

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Gu Chi has been in love with Fu Xingye for many years.

Growing up in an oppressive family that demanded perfection, he envied Fu Xingye. He saw him as a star in the sky.

Later, he gets the chance to keep that star by his side.

As they spend more and more time together, they grow closer, and closer still.

Until Fu Xingye lets go of his anxious defenses and finally understands his own feelings.

At last, Gu Chi gets what he wanted.

Reader's guide:

Both are each other's first love. Neither the top nor the bottom has ever been with anyone but the other. One-on-one romance. The top starts out with a one-sided crush, then they fall for each other.

Content warnings are in the first chapter author's note, so be sure to read them.

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Cover credits:

CG: Patikara

Next novel, How Can the Protagonist Bottom Look at Me Like That?, blurb:

Chu Yanfeng transmigrates into a danmei novel as the doomed senior disciple, a mere cultivation tool who is exploited to death.

In the original story, his uncle-master and second junior brother have their way with him early on. After he finally becomes sect leader, he is forced to watch himself being humiliated at the Immortal Sects Conference, exposing his Taiyin constitution.

In the end, the cultivators of the realm, each acting in their own interests, join forces to imprison him and use him as a cultivation tool until he dies from exploitation.

Chu Yanfeng arrives on the first night of the nightmare's beginning.

He doesn't dare waste a moment. He packs his things and rushes to take refuge in the room of his junior brother, the protagonist bottom.

Chu Yanfeng: Junior brother, let me crash at your place for a billion nights.

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Yan Jue has a dream.

In the dream, he is the protagonist bottom of a male-male romance novel, adored by the entire cultivation world but also coveted and forcibly claimed by countless powerful figures.

Among them are the Demon Lord, the Sword Venerable, the Demon Emperor...and many others.

He doesn't care how much any of them love him. All he can see is his pitiful senior brother, whose Taiyin constitution has been discovered.

After waking, Yan Jue opens the door, sees his unharmed senior brother, and asks with a beaming smile:

I'm afraid of the dark. Can I sleep with you?

Yan Jue lets Chu Yanfeng in and shields him from harm.

Once becomes twice.

From then on, Yan Jue protects him from every storm.

Later, Yan Jue realizes he has developed feelings for him, but he doesn't fight them. He lets the seeds of love in his heart take root and grow.

He tells himself only that none of the calamities from his dream will ever be allowed to befall Chu Yanfeng.

Theme: Life doesn't always go smoothly, so be ready to face the storms.