The World-Weary Beauty and His Clingy Childhood Friend

[The scum gong's ending is in the free bonus stories in my collection.] After Chi Yang was reborn, he awakened to the truth and realized he was the protagonist shou in a melodramatic angst novel. According to the plot, he would be tortured to death by the scum gong. Chi Yang didn't want that ending, and desperately tried to escape from the scum gong, only to be caught and brought back again and again, his legs broken and himself locked away in a dark room. After his eighteenth rebirth, Chi Yang was utterly disheartened and decided to give up. I'm tired. Let's just destroy everything :) But then he discovered that the scum gong had disappeared, replaced by an unfamiliar young man he'd never met before. The other man doted on him, coaxing him to eat, giving him gifts, clinging to him and insisting they sleep in the same bed. He was unfailingly obedient and granted his every request. Chi Yang: . Why are you being so nice to me all of a sudden? - Yu Xinghe was the protagonist gong in a silly comedy. He once had a childhood friend who grew up with him, an older brother figure. When Yu Xinghe was ten, that childhood friend mysteriously disappeared. After searching for him for fifteen years, he finally found a trace of him again. But when they met, Chi Yang was standing dazed on the street, thin and frail, neither crying nor smiling, without a word to say. Yu Xinghe pulled him into a fierce embrace and swore to make up for everything he'd owed him over the years, twice over. - As he went about making it up to him, Yu Xinghe suddenly realized his feelings had changed into something else. Terrified by the realization that he'd fallen for a man, he panicked. "It's over, it's over! Is Brother Chi going to think I'm a pervert? Should I tell him? If I do, will he stop talking to me? Aaaaaah!" Chi Yang: "I heard every word. Thanks :)" Yu Xinghe: "..." - One day, Chi Yang finally learned that Yu Xinghe, who was always clinging to him, was the bratty little brother who used to follow him everywhere as a child. He had been the only light in Chi Yang's bleak life, and after fifteen years, he had come back into it once more. A shut-in, world-weary, perpetually giving-up angst-novel shou x A sunny, lively, hardworking, energetic, silly-comedy gong Reading guide: · A lighthearted, healing slice-of-life story about two childhood friends who missed each other and meet again, saving each other in turn. · 1v1, shou-focused, happy ending. The two books are actually the same book, one the finished manuscript and one the discarded draft, so their settings are basically the same. The shou's final rebirth takes him from the finished manuscript into the discarded draft. · The gong is an imaginative, energetic, sunny puppy. The shou spends every day giving up and waiting to die, a sickly, world-weary beauty. · The gong is a virgin, and the shou has never been with anyone in this life. The shou never loved the scum gong. Theme: Even withered souls will one day be watered by love