The Fierce Boyfriend Returns to the Widowed Professor

[An early work, not really recommended QAQ] [A wealthy professor who is cold and ruthless to everyone else but turns into a puppy in front of his husband + X + a sensitive architecture PhD who is distant and polite to everyone else, but fierce only toward the top] +#My ex-boyfriend, who died 15 years ago, came back looking exactly the same, but I’ve already become an old man. What do I do?# 1. Wen Huaijun is 35, covered in accolades and surrounded by admirers. In a nutshell: he has a movie star’s face, a model’s physique, and the family background of a domineering CEO, yet he insists on going for a Nobel Prize. But the seemingly perfect Professor Wen became a widower at just 20. Wen Huaijun thought he’d be a widower for the rest of his life. Then one day, his ex-boyfriend, who had died in a plane crash, came back, still as young as ever. Professor Wen: I’m doomed. This old man is about to get thoroughly rejected. 2. Xu Zhou had never been loved by anyone. Wen Huaijun gave him a love he would never forget for the rest of his life. But on the day Xu Zhou left to study abroad, Wen Huaijun married a young woman. All their sweet memories felt like a joke. Xu Zhou passed the lavish wedding motorcade without a backward glance and boarded a flight across the ocean. But when the plane landed, Xu Zhou was stunned. He had arrived 15 years in the future. Xu Zhou had assumed Wen Huaijun would have a happy family and a couple of children by now. He never expected that: For some reason, Wen Huaijun’s engagement had fallen through. The heaven-blessed prodigy Wen Huaijun had spent a full fifteen years as a widower. 3. Xu Zhou was still young, but Wen Huaijun had grown old. Looking at the handsome young man surrounded by cheers and flowers, Professor Wen’s eyes stung with pride. “You’re so young. There’s a whole world waiting for you.” Xu Zhou grabbed Professor Wen by the tie and pulled him close, snapping irritably, “What do you mean? You don’t want me anymore, is that it?” Fifteen years ago, we kept missing each other. But this time, I want to hold your hand tight. Across time and mountains and seas, I still want to love you. [Content warnings] 1. A bittersweet romance. It may be angsty at first, but it gets sweet later. Both are each other’s first and only, one-on-one pairing, happy ending. 2. There’s some heartbreak, but no disposable villains. If it’s not for you, feel free to leave without telling me QAQ (highlighted). 3. Neither character is perfect, and both have flaws. The bottom is a little violent, too. They only ever love each other. 4. An alternate modern setting where men can marry at 20. The professional details are made up. 5. Contains a small amount of yuri elements. Now serializing: "Introverts from the Anime World Have to Date Too!" Socially anxious Ruan Cunyun only dares to let loose in the world of anime. He loves three things most in life: 1. Staying home and gaming, 2. Cosplay, 3. Collecting every doujinshi drawn by Teacher Egg. The kind meant for adults, of course. With such a shut-in personality and such a perverted fetish, he’d die of embarrassment if his coworkers found out! On his first day at work, a coworker asked about his hobbies. Ruan Cunyun put on the fake smile and gave the rehearsed fake answer: “Sports, travel, music.” He’d barely finished speaking when a man in a perfectly tailored suit entered his field of vision, radiating professional authority. His coworkers greeted him respectfully. “Good morning, Mr. Qin.” Ruan Cunyun broke out in a cold sweat. Damn, I think I saw him at an anime convention four years ago. Am I going to get exposed on my very first day? - Qin Fanglü is the co-founder of a dark horse company. He built his business from the ground up, and his fondness for fictional characters is buried deep beneath his polished, mature professional image. None of his employees know that this meticulous young entrepreneur has been a hardcore otaku for ten years and has over a hundred thousand followers online, where he’s revered as the fandom’s god, Teacher Egg. Qin Fanglü considers himself an extremely rational fictional-character-sexual. He’s never been attracted to a real person and has no idea how to fall for one. But the new kid at work unexpectedly catches his eye. A baby face, but cool. Every now and then, he smiles and shows a pair of little canine teeth. His self-image as a fictional-character-sexual, cultivated over more than twenty years, crumbles to dust. How are normal young people supposed to date? This older shut-in starts studying romance from scratch, but he just can’t seem to get the hang of it. - Ruan Cunyun & Qin Fanglü: He can’t find out I’m a shut-in! ★ Two shut-ins both pretend to be outgoing and sociable, only to spectacularly crash and burn as they stumble through a romance. ★ A shut-in who slowly figures himself out as the top + X + a baby-faced, super-cool bottom [⚠️No switching, no splitting up the pair, no self-inserts, no character ownership wars⚠️] Theme: Cherish all the beautiful things in life.