Autumn's Deep Silence

*A short, melodramatic, angst-filled bad-ending story. Don't read if that bothers you.

[The blurb for my upcoming story, After Being Reborn, I Got a Happy Ending with the CEO [Entertainment Industry], is at the bottom.]

In the early autumn of his twenty-fifth year, Chen Qiu found fifteen-year-old Xie Qingming. Feeling sorry for him, he took him home and raised him with care.

For the sake of food and a place to stay, Xie Qingming followed Chen Qiu with unwavering devotion.

Chen Qiu felt like his father, his older brother, and his teacher all at once.

But Xie Qingming's feelings for him were far from ordinary. Once he came of age, he completely consumed Chen Qiu.

Chen Qiu turned a scrawny boy into a beloved celebrity.

Chen Qiu's dream was to become a famous screenwriter, and he achieved it, too.

In the big city, Chen Qiu went from someone afraid of nothing to someone cautious in every little thing. Their relationship changed as Xie Qingming's career took off.

In the tenth year of their knowing each other, Chen Qiu was diagnosed with an incurable illness.

Xie Qingming had grown powerful enough that he no longer needed him.

The big city was a fine place, but Chen Qiu didn't want to stay there anymore. In the final days of his life, he chose to return to Jiang City, where he had put down roots.

Born in early autumn, buried in late autumn.

Chen Qiu's wish for his own funeral was to die somewhere no one would ever find him.

Thirty-five-year-old Chen Qiu fell into his eternal sleep in autumn.

Twenty-five-year-old Xie Qingming would hate autumn from then on.

In autumn, Xie Qingming met Chen Qiu, and lost him, too.

Reader's guide:

1. There is no outline, but the ending is planned, so the story's path follows wherever the ideas lead. The style and prose have an old-fashioned feel.

2. The bottom isn't a virgin, but once the top and bottom get together, they only have each other.

3. I'll add more if I think of anything. The writing isn't great, so please don't scrutinize it. If there's a problem, it's definitely my fault.

----------------Upcoming Story----------------

After Being Reborn, I Lie Flat and Stop Competing [Entertainment Industry]

At the very moment before his death, Lou Ye fell head over heels for Shen Che.

Then he died.

In his previous life, Lou Ye had loved a scumbag, but it had ended badly.

After being reborn, he decided to avoid risks and stay away from scumbags.

When he met Shen Che again, Lou Ye thought he must have been blind in his previous life.

Shen Che was tall, handsome, and rich. What was so bad about letting him take care of him?

So Lou Ye decided to lie flat by the CEO's side.

*

Lou Ye in his previous life: He's not a scumbag! He must have his reasons.

The scumbag used him as a stepping stone.

Lou Ye in this life: Get lost, scumbag. Don't come near me.

The scumbag never got back on his feet.

Lou Ye in his previous life: I'm above it all. I'm a pure white lotus rising unsullied from the mire.

Then he died an untimely death.

Lou Ye in this life: Shen Che, Shen Che, come give me a kiss~

Then he had everything he could want.

*

At an awards banquet one night,

newly crowned winner Lou Ye was so excited that he held his trophy in his left hand, grabbed Shen Che's chin with his right, pinned him against the wall, and kissed him passionately.

Shen Che wasn't the only one caught off guard. Even the producers and investors passing by were stunned.

Lou Ye was embarrassed to have an audience.

Shen Che pushed him away and left with a sour expression.

The next day, word spread through the industry that Lou Ye was about to be blacklisted. He was suddenly replaced in one of his productions.

Furious, Lou Ye stormed over to Shen Che's door.

Lou Ye: "I kissed you and you didn't like it. You could've just kissed me back. Why did you have my role reassigned?"

Shen Che: "I didn't do that. Maybe they were afraid I wouldn't like it?"

Lou Ye: "You didn't like it?"

Shen Che said coldly, "I liked it."

Lou Ye: "You liked it, and that's how you reacted?"

Shen Che kissed him, then said with the same cold expression, "I like it even more now."

Lou Ye: "..."

On the third day, a TV drama funded by the talent agency under the Shen Group specifically named Lou Ye as its leading man.

The director who had replaced him without permission came to apologize in person.

It was the kind of treatment Lou Ye had never dared to dream of in his previous life.

He couldn't help thinking: lying flat was great. The sooner you lie flat, the sooner you enjoy it.

Theme: Cherish the person before you.