After a Blind Date with My Secret Crush

[Recommended by a friend: “Bro, You’re Not Allowed to Hit My Husband!!” by Liu Chu]

Before the blind date, Sang Yan only planned to go through the motions. He was even prepared for the other person to look nothing like his photos.

After the date, Sang Yan thought: The other guy is actually the campus crush he’d fallen for back in high school!

Sang Yan was honest. “Sorry, I’m only doing this to humor my family. I assume you are too...”

He thought they’d part ways there, but Pei Yi said earnestly, “I’m not. I want to see where things go with you.”

Sang Yan was a laid-back person with little energy, and he didn’t like overly clingy or intense relationships.

Pei Yi, meanwhile, was quiet and busy with work. He seemed to have few needs, the perfect cool, aloof partner made just for him.

They got together, registered their marriage, and everything fell naturally into place.

Sang Yan thought they would go on living a peaceful, uneventful life together.

Only after they got married did he discover that Pei Yi, who seemed aloof and abstinent in public, was incredibly clingy in private.

He wanted Sang Yan to wear his clothes, cuddle him to sleep, and shower together. He was always kissing him until he could barely breathe. He was a complete kissing addict, and he was always saying strange things...

“Yanyan, you’re so good.”

“Do you like it this way?”

“Wait for me, okay?”

Sang Yan was overwhelmed by his attentions and tentatively asked, “Could you maybe not kiss me so hard from now on?”

Pei Yi, who had always treated him gently, answered softly, “Sure. I’ll do whatever you say.”

Sang Yan naively thought he’d found a considerate partner.

Then one day, inexplicable marks began appearing on his body, clearly left by friction.

Only then did Sang Yan realize that Pei Yi wasn’t the low-needs, sex-averse man he’d imagined...

*

Pei Yi had loved Sang Yan for many years.

He knew Sang Yan didn’t like overly intense emotions, so he constantly forced himself to hold back his despicable possessiveness and instincts.

He played the perfect gentleman and loving husband for three months.

Then one day, he saw Sang Yan post anonymously for advice: “Is it a problem if my husband is too cold?”

Pei Yi stared at the screen in silence for a long time.

That night, he came home and saw Sang Yan curled up on the sofa. He leaned over and lifted him into his arms with one hand.

Sang Yan was bewildered. “What are you doing?”

Pei Yi looked down at him. “You.”

He’d held back long enough. No more. :)

*Mutual pining / marriage first, love later / gong pursues shou / gong spoils shou

*Don’t read this if you want the shou to pursue the gong.

Coming soon: “The Nobody of the Immortal Sect Is Forced to Become Everyone’s Favorite”

Sang Yu was a nobody in his sect.

His talent was mediocre and his face forgettable. No one could remember his name, and his fellow disciples used him like a handy tool: watering the spirit fields, copying scriptures, taking their punishments, even pushing him out to block monsters. No one gave him a second glance.

It wasn’t until he accidentally ate a spirit herb that he realized he was a cannon-fodder character in a story about a beloved heartthrob.

The heartthrob protagonist was the sect’s peerless prodigy, surrounded by a crowd of admirers.

The story featured one protagonist and a whole crowd of love interests, plus fake deaths, exes desperately trying to win him back, and endless rivalry between suitors.

The most iconic scene had a villain, driven mad with love, chain the heartthrob’s harem to a cliff and declare, “Only one of them and me can live. Who will you choose?”

The heartthrob stood proudly and chose to destroy his own core.

The harem went mad, the cultivation world erupted, and the readers cheered.

The villain also went berserk and killed him by accident. What a rotten end.

To change his fate, he worked desperately to cultivate, but kept getting caught up in the world of the heaven-blessed prodigies.

He clearly avoided every plotline, but then he stumbled upon an injured young master, encountered a demon lord who had gone mad from cultivation, obtained a golden finger, and accidentally took the protagonist’s place in a secret realm and got drugged...

The secret realm shook. When the heaven-blessed prodigies reached the cave, an unfamiliar scent hung in the air.

A young man in an outer-sect disciple’s uniform lay sprawled on the ground, looking weak and exhausted.

When he saw the others, his eyes were red and damp with wariness. As he kept backing away, a glimpse of his narrow waist and dazzlingly pale legs showed beneath his coarse hemp clothes...

From that day on, the entire sect started acting strangely.

The heaven-blessed prodigies who had never once given him a second glance not only remembered his name, but began looking at him with a different kind of warmth.

Even the classic “choose one of two” scene fell to him.

On a towering cliff, a group of heaven-blessed prodigies were bound by soul-locking chains.

The villain softly called his name, his expression twisted with madness. “You care about them so much, don’t you? How about we play a game?”

“Only one of them and me can live. Who will you choose?”

He calmly watched the scene before him and, just as in the story, chose to destroy his own core.

Before his consciousness faded, he saw the villain’s terrified, helpless expression.

That year, the cultivation world was shaken. Many heaven-blessed prodigies became demons overnight, several factions turned against each other, and they frantically fought to piece together and seize fragments of one person’s soul.

And he became the unattainable white moonlight of all those heaven-blessed prodigies.

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