Keeping a Beast in Captivity

Promise me you won't be put off by the university setting and baseball, okay? QAQ

This really isn't a sports competition story, sob sob sob.

1.

Yi Xia's first impression of Han Qiandong was that he was an idiot who'd gotten his head smashed open by a ball and was only worried about his hand.

His second impression came at a dinner, where Han Qiandong had waved his hand and treated dozens of tables of people, like a sucker.

His third impression was of the freshman representative onstage: handsome, talented, gentle, and polite.

Overall, he was a rich third-generation heir with perfect looks and not much going on upstairs, a warmhearted campus heartthrob, clingy and enthusiastic as a golden retriever, who kept pestering Yi Xia to be his pitcher.

But after Yi Xia and Han Qiandong became a pitcher-catcher battery, their relationship grew closer, and Yi Xia realized that the Han Qiandong everyone else talked about didn't seem to be the same person he knew.

Everything he saw seemed to be just the tip of the iceberg.

2.

Han Qiandong's first impression of Yi Xia was that he had excellent control and was a natural pitcher. Han Qiandong wanted to train him to be his partner.

But after looking into his background, he learned that Yi Xia's parents had died young. He lived with relatives and had only made it to university through student loans and part-time work.

He hadn't even entered the working world, yet life's burdens had already bent his back.

I want to take care of him. I want all of him.

For all the countless years to come,

forget about everyone else. Just keep your eyes on me.

Content warnings:

1. Han Qiandong x Yi Xia. A catcher who seems like a warmhearted guy but is actually a dangerous obsessive top, and a self-reliant, energetic, catlike pitcher bottom.

2. Baseball is involved, but this isn't about writing competitive matches, so don't let the word "baseball" put you off!

2021.12.23

Theme: A tiger at heart, with the tenderness to sniff the roses