Even a Sissy Deserves a Springtime

[Main story complete] Upcoming stories: Lie Back and Wait for Me to Save You (fantasy danmei) and Summer Sleep, Unaware of Dawn (modern romance). Blurbs below!

Blurb for this story: {Lighthearted version}

In the eyes of his classmates at R High, Xia Yangxi is a top student, a catty, annoying sissy, and a weakling who can’t even finish running a thousand meters.

Xia Yangxi is happy to cultivate that image.

Because lately, he’s taken a liking to the school’s legendary big shot, Yi Ru. He keeps a low profile and has incredible fighting skills. Few people know what he looks like, but everyone knows his name.

Xia Yangxi is convinced that the key to turning the utterly straight Yi Ru gay is to establish his sissy persona!

Unfortunately...

“Yi Ru, did you hear? Someone beat up your nemesis!” one of Yi Ru’s lackeys said excitedly. “They say it was a super tall female server. She took on seven or eight guys by herself... [A thousand words omitted here.] What a heroine! She really got revenge for us!”

Hearing this, Yi Ru nodded from his hospital bed. Holding the wig he’d found in Xia Yangxi’s backpack, he raised an eyebrow at the guy standing beside the bed. “Do you have anything to explain?”

Xia Yangxi looked flustered, his eyes darting around. “Uh... This is... Xue Xiaomei left it in my bag after an event! It must be hers!”

“Oh?” Yi Ru chuckled, twirling the long, straight black wig around one finger. “You think I believe that, ‘heroine’?”

Unfortunately, his plans went awry before they could even get started.

He hadn’t turned the straight guy gay, and his sissy persona was already shattered into pieces. QAQ

{Serious version}

Xia Yangxi is a sissy who doesn’t wear makeup or women’s clothes, and is extremely uncommitted and unprofessional.

Yi Ru is an impartial, taciturn thug who is extremely committed and professional.

A story that begins with curiosity, unfolds with two experts facing off, and ends in peaceful days.

While the two experts face off:

Wearing cotton pajamas, Xia Yangxi lay in the snow and wished Yi Ru a happy New Year.

He also leaned against the wall of a nightclub and cursed Yi Ru after splashing red wine in his face.

Yi Ru repeatedly flipped Xia Yangxi over his shoulder when the latter, intentionally or not, draped himself across Yi Ru’s back.

He also used his awkward English to knock on the door of his boyfriend, who was sulking far away in a foreign country.

There are always strange and quirky people in this world. Others may point fingers at them, but they still live freely and proudly.

#A dramatic sissy bottom who would rather put on a falsetto than speak normally x a protective thug top who would rather stay silent than say one unnecessary word#

Reading guide:

1. One-on-one romance, first love for both, happy ending.

2. Both leads are strong, genuinely strong. Trust me! (Erkang reaching out his hand)

3. The sissy isn’t really a sissy, and the big shot is the real deal.

Upcoming story: Lie Back and Wait for Me to Save You, about Qing Dao~

#For you, I have lived and died hundreds of times.

#For you, I have risked everything to keep living.

Mutual healing / younger top, with a 12-year mental-age gap / time loops

As the saying goes, a bodyguard who doesn’t want to be an assassin isn’t a good secret agent.

Qing Dao was an excellent agent who had “retired” from being an assassin and spent over six diligent years in the thankless job of bodyguard.

But one day, while carrying out a mission, he died in the line of duty after saving a child who wasn’t part of the target.

Qing Dao thought he could finally put an end to his joyless life, but the heartless organization kept exploiting its workers even after death.

He was forced to join a project called “Ignition Plan,” traveling through time and space to save people who were supposed to die.

Qing Dao: Damn this shady organization. They’re making me “work overtime” even after I’m dead...

During one Ignition Plan mission, Qing Dao had to save Wei Ming, one of the plan’s founders.

In the eyes of outsiders, Wei Ming was a brilliant, calm, and collected scientist. But to Qing Dao, he was childish, obsessive, sensitive, and even deranged.

Qing Dao thought of Wei Ming as a younger brother, but the way Wei Ming looked at him grew stranger and stranger...

Qing Dao: “Forget about me.”

Wei Ming: “All right. I’ll forget you today, then go die tomorrow.”

“Can you stop being so crazy?!” Qing Dao frowned. “Can’t you live a normal life without me?”

“No.” Wei Ming answered firmly. “I live so that I can see you. I’m alive today so I can see you tomorrow. I lived all those years before because I believed I’d see you again someday.”

Wei Ming’s tall figure loomed over Qing Dao. His voice was hoarse and low. “Since you saved me eight years ago, you have to take responsibility for me.”

“...”

Qing Dao kicked Wei Ming in the chest, knocking him to the ground.

The next second, several bullets sprayed the spot where Wei Ming had just been, and a burst of gunfire erupted outside the window.

“Only God Almighty has to take responsibility for you!”

Qing Dao pulled out his pistol and pressed himself against the window. He glanced back at Dr. Wei, who was sprawled on the ground, and grinned. “Lie back and wait for me to come save you.”

With that, he vaulted through the window with one hand.

#A careless-looking, sharp-tongued but soft-hearted bodyguard bottom with overwhelming combat skills x a composed, rational-looking but devoted and obsessive mad scientist top#

#A story about two people fighting to stay alive for each other#

Reading guide:

1. One-on-one romance, first love for both, mutual healing, happy ending.

2. The bottom is 12 years older than the top in mental age.

3. The top is very crazy and extreme. He is not a perfect character.

4. Soft sci-fi by an arts student. Please be kind.

Upcoming story: Summer Sleep, Unaware of Dawn

#The whole school knows Qiu Xiao likes Xia Mian. Only Xia Mian hasn’t noticed.#

Childhood friends / younger man, two-year age gap / boy secretly loves girl

At S High, there’s a saying: “If you need something, go to Sister Xia.” That’s Xia Mian. It’s not that she has any special powers. She’s just famously warmhearted, chivalrous, and righteous.

Despite having a name that sounds like it belongs to a delicate young woman, Xia Mian has never had a delicate build or personality. When the boy next door was bullied, she stood up for him and chased off kids a whole head taller than she was. When he got hurt during training, she used what she’d learned in first-aid class to bandage him up, calm and careful. When his parents scolded him for making a mistake, she had his back, taking the blame for him from start to finish.

From childhood onward, Xia Mian thought of the boy next door as a frail, sickly, dispirited little kid who could run fast but needed other people to look after and protect him in every other way.

Then one day, Xia Mian was injured on the court, and Qiu Xiao easily picked her up and carried her to the nurse’s office. Only then did it suddenly hit her that the little boy she’d once protected had grown into a tall, handsome young man.

She stared at him, stunned, and couldn’t look away.

“Big Sister,” Qiu Xiao lowered his head and smiled at Xia Mian in his arms. “Had a good look?”

A righteous, clueless, impulsive big sister x a carefree, scheming, smiling-eyed wolf pup

Reading guide:

1. One-on-one romance, first love for both, happy ending.

2. He secretly loves her at first; later, they secretly love each other.

3. Younger man and older woman, two-year age gap.

4. Most of the story takes place in high school. They won’t get together until after adulthood and the college entrance exams.

Theme: May every spirited life in this world be treated with respect.