The first time Lin Zhi met Chen Yuxing was at a college reunion.
The music in the bar pounded so hard it made his head ache and his ears ring. He slipped out through a side door for some air and accidentally came across a young couple making out.
One half of the couple was his boyfriend of three years, Duan Ze.
Sitting on the curb by the street in the cold wind, Lin Zhi was still in a daze.
He couldn't say which had hit him harder: the pounding music in the bar or what he'd just seen.
The wind on the first day of winter was bitterly cold, and before long, rain began to fall.
Lin Zhi wiped the raindrops from his face, then felt a wool coat settle over his shoulders.
Dark gray and thick, it nearly wrapped him up completely. Its fuzzy surface was dotted with tiny drops of water, and it still held a faint trace of body heat.
Lin Zhi turned in surprise and met Chen Yuxing's gaze.
Monolid eyes, strong brows, tattoos winding down one arm and reaching up the side of his neck.
He looked like someone you definitely didn't want to mess with.
"Don't get rained on," he said.
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Later, Duan Ze naturally begged him for forgiveness.
He tried everything, from throwing a tantrum to playing the victim.
Lin Zhi's phone was unreachable the entire time.
And in its owner's room, things were just as heated.
"Got any energy ammo?"
"Yeah, I'll split mine with you."
"Lin Zhi, save me!! I'll never tease you and Brother Chen again! Zhi-Zhi, don't split the ammo, heal me instead, please!"
"Who said you could call him Zhi-Zhi?"
"...Sorry, Brother Chen."
Lin Zhi fumbled to split the ammo and deploy a healing robot, then laughed at his teammates' antics.
In the middle of all that, he glanced at his phone screen and saw who was calling.
As if he'd sensed it through the voice chat, Chen Yuxing wiped out a squad and rushed back to his side. "Don't answer."
Lin Zhi: "..."
"Zhi-Zhi," Chen Yuxing said. "Can you not answer his call?"
"..." Lin Zhi held down the power button. "Okay."
Her boyfriend has secrets. A sweet romance with mutual first love and no cheating.
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