Your Wife Is Gone

[Next up: "The Gloomy Background Character Doesn't Want to Be Loved." Check the author's page~]

#A dumb dog realizes too late, starts a groveling pursuit, but gets intercepted by the real love interest, who takes the top spot#

Jiang Huai has a secret: he has been in love with his childhood friend Qin Zheng for years, but has always kept it buried deep inside.

Qin Zheng can stick by him like an enthusiastic, goofy puppy, but he could never love him.

When Qin Zheng jokes that he should be Jiang Huai's manga model, Jiang Huai finally steels himself and confesses.

Qin Zheng, who has known him since childhood, freezes. Once he learns that Jiang Huai has been in love with him, he awkwardly withdraws his hand.

"Sorry, I'm not into guys."

Jiang Huai watches as the other man instinctively pulls his right hand away. After feeling dejected, he makes the rational decision to end his crush.

Later, Qin Zheng, now his "good buddy," helps him with his manga and introduces him to someone else.

Qin Zheng's cousin, Fu Boqin, a junior at A University and a campus heartthrob.

Tall, long-legged, with strikingly handsome, chiseled features. He looks too perfect to be real, and he's also Jiang Huai's new roommate.

He's a perfect fit for one of the characters in Jiang Huai's manga.

#

Introduced by his cousin, Fu Boqin sees the well-behaved young man Qin Zheng wants him to model for and raises an eyebrow.

Later, he watches the young man stare at him for a while, then lower his eyes and draw in earnest. He reaches out and pinches the boy's soft earlobe.

"Finish drawing, then we'll get something to eat."

Jiang Huai answers in a muffled voice, never expecting the taciturn campus heartthrob to be so controlling.

Qin Zheng introduces Jiang Huai to his cold and aloof cousin.

He doesn't think the two will get along, but on the night Jiang Huai's serial manga becomes a huge success, Qin Zheng comes to congratulate him and sees Fu Boqin carrying Jiang Huai home tenderly in the dead of night, since Jiang Huai is too sleepy to walk.

When Fu Boqin notices him, he only glances his way.

"Move."

Qin Zheng freezes for a moment, but as he turns around, he sees a deep kiss mark on Jiang Huai's neck, like a brand, utterly shattering the closeness they had shared for more than a decade.

Only then does Qin Zheng realize that he doesn't actually dislike Jiang Huai.

He just realized it too late.

PS: Jiang Huai x Fu Boqin (a cut-your-losses-when-it's-time lion rabbit x a cool, handsome white wolf)

--2022.12.21

[Coming soon]

"The Gloomy Background Character Doesn't Want to Be Loved"

Xie Fan, who has face blindness, transmigrates.

He wakes up inside a folk-horror novel he read before.

The good news: he's just a background character.

The bad news: he's a sacrificial nobody who dies as soon as he appears, dispatched in a single line.

A gloomy, gray, long-haired face-blind mouse whose features are impossible to make out.

He falls in love at first sight with the protagonist shou, who has come to the village to paint and has secretly been chosen as the god's bride. As a result, the god he worships despises him, and he dies a miserable death.

His death becomes the excuse for the various young masters among the protagonists to approach the universally adored protagonist shou.

A thoroughly insignificant death, perfectly in keeping with his role.

And Xie Fan... just happens to be afraid of dying and of ghosts.

So on the first day the protagonist shou arrives for his trip, Xie Fan locks his doors and hides.

But he doesn't notice that, after he closes his eyes, an eye suddenly cracks open in the faceless statue enshrined in his room. In the dead of night, its gaze on him gradually turns strange.

Meanwhile, the nasty young masters who came to paint with Shen Xun also notice him.

The pampered young masters, raised in a modern, high-tech world, initially think the remote village's customs are strange and its people are weird. Aside from the lovely mountain scenery, it's unbearable.

If Shen Xun hadn't insisted on coming here to paint, they never would have come.

The young masters spend a week wandering around the mountains with nothing to do, scoffing at the so-called "Spider God," who supposedly protects the village and ensures good weather for its crops.

Until they accidentally meet a handsome young man by the riverbank, washing clothes and drawing water alone in the dead of night.

The young masters suddenly realize that this strange village does have one redeeming quality: its feng shui is especially good for your health.

However, on the day Xie Fan meets the group of outsiders, he returns home to find a strange, pale red mark on his lower back that wasn't there before.

The next day, Xie Fan discovers... he's pregnant.

PS: An ancient, cosmic-horror-style nonhuman evil god gong who falls in love with his wife at first sight and is obsessively devoted x A gloomy, face-blind pretty background character shou who becomes a caring dad.

Theme: Strive to improve yourself and contribute to society.