A Pretty Roommate Is Still No Use

Flirty, sharp, and clever gong x cool, taciturn, obsessive, rebellious shou

Qiao Cuo is a rebellious teen with perfect pitch. After taking a year off school, he temporarily moves in with his psychiatrist.

Unfortunately, he can't speak.

To help him adjust to returning to school, the doctor's aunt reassures him, "Ran has lots of friends. He'll look after you at school."

Qiao Cuo falls silent for a moment, then gestures: "You mean Sheng Ran, the one who called me a pretty mute the first time we met and claimed to be socially anxious?"

Sheng Ran is the doctor's biological son, a perennial top student, and known as everyone's comfort person. He's a social butterfly through and through.

He's also a famous virtual streamer, constantly making suggestive jokes and living it up. He can call even strangers his sworn brothers.

When even claiming to be socially anxious can't get him out of the task of "looking after Qiao Cuo,"

Sheng Ran does everything he can to get Qiao Cuo to call him big brother and score himself a little advantage.

Including, but not limited to:

Studying together, skipping class together, gaming together, and taking off on an impromptu trip together.

He even gets Qiao Cuo to join him in cursing out the fussy, high-maintenance music arranger they're working with on a sponsored project.

Until one day, Sheng Ran finally meets that fussy music arranger.

The quiet, handsome boy sits across from him, a cold smile tugging at his lips.

Qiao Cuo types something into his phone's notes app and slowly slides it in front of Sheng Ran: "That fussy arranger you mentioned before, that wouldn't happen to be me, would it?"

One day, fans receive a notification from streamer Firing: "What Happened When I Collaborated on a Song with My Perfectionist Roommate"

Barely ten minutes after it goes live, its plays and reposts soar past those of countless creators churning out low-effort content, taking the top spot.

Both fanbases go wild:

#TheFamousArrangerIsHandsomeAndOnlyEighteen#

#WhatDoesItFeelLikeWhenTwoBigShotsSuddenlyCollaborateAndAreAlsoRoommates#

#FGodIfYouCanCollaborateThenDontBeShyAddThatYouCalledYourRoommateHandsomeOnStreamToTheTitle!#

"I'll be brave for you, doing it without fear, just as the spirited young person I am."

- The Life Journey, "We'll Always Be Here"

Tips:

1. Both are sexually inexperienced, one-on-one, mutually doting. An unserious influencer x an unserious artist.

2. The shou can't speak at first for certain reasons, and communicates entirely through writing and sign language. He's rather obsessive.

3. The gong is a virtual streamer on a certain platform with over a million followers. The platform setting borrows from various sources to avoid direct comparisons, so don't overanalyze it.

4. I'll add more if I think of anything. XOXO

Theme: Dream while you're young, love while you're young