I Hope You Remember Me

[Unrequited Love | Devoted Commander Top Yan Chenyu x Oblivious Weapons Engineer Bottom Guan Yi]

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Short blurb:

We met when we were kids, but he forgot.

We kissed in high school, but he left.

Long blurb:

Guan Yi remembered his first meeting with Yan Chenyu. It hadn't gone well.

Before he had even presented, Guan Yi was so beautiful that older kids often cornered and bullied him in the orphanage.

The only happy thing about that day was meeting Yan Chenyu.

Yan Chenyu beat up all the kids who bullied him, gave him lots of toys, and told him entertaining stories.

Yan Chenyu was the son of the orphanage's benefactor.

After that, every time he visited, he would seek Guan Yi out.

Yan Chenyu saw how listless Guan Yi was every day.

"Are you unhappy?"

Guan Yi looked at him without saying a word.

"Mom says a kiss will make you happy."

As he spoke, Yan Chenyu cupped Guan Yi's face and kissed him.

And after that? After that, Yan Chenyu never came back.

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Guan Yi got into the high school he'd first heard about from Yan Chenyu.

Yan Chenyu didn't recognize him, but they became friends again.

Yan Chenyu's palm was broad as he pressed it against Guan Yi's gland.

"Class president, your pheromones smell so good. They feel familiar, too."

The heat at the back of Guan Yi's neck was scalding, making his eyes grow hot.

Perhaps they really weren't meant to be. They parted again.

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"Guan Yi, someone once told me that kissing brings happiness."

Years later, when they met again, Yan Chenyu kissed him carefully, breathing softly against his forehead.

"I'm back, Xiao Yi."

When you know it all, our fingers intertwine,

Across time, no more goodbyes, hand in hand, we walk into tomorrow.

---"One Day You'll Appear by My Side" by Prism

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○ Sci-fi + ABO = lots of personal worldbuilding. The protagonists are both 17 and legally adults in this setting.

○ Both are Alphas, and both protagonists are exceptional people with their own ideals.

○ School life first, then city life.

○ A very ordinary, slow-paced story. All other background details serve the romance.

○ Restraints and suppressants, such as bite guards and straitjackets, will appear. Please skip this if it bothers you!

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Coming soon: "Let Me Hold You". Growing-up romance, younger top, sweet on the outside but dark within, top has a secret crush.

A possessive younger brother, sweet on the outside but dark within x a gentle, patient, beautiful older brother

[Blurb] One winter, Zuo Qiufan found a child named Ji Zhongxue.

When they first met, Ji Zhongxue was sitting on the curb, his nose and the rims of his eyes red from the cold.

"Did you have a fight with your family?" he asked.

Ji Zhongxue pressed his lips tightly together and said nothing.

His teeth dug into his lips until they were white and bloodless. It looked painful.

Unable to bear watching, Zuo Qiufan touched Ji Zhongxue's lips. They felt as cold as ice.

"Don't bite them. You'll hurt yourself."

Ji Zhongxue let go of his lips, leaving a row of teeth marks.

Sniffling, he asked, "Big brother, can I... go home with you?"

The child was good-looking, and Zuo Qiufan felt sorry for him, so he wrapped his own scarf around him.

He took his hand and brought him home.

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Zuo Qiufan would never know.

The little crybaby at home was a lone wolf outside.

To outsiders, Ji Zhongxue could be sunny one moment and gloomy the next, as changeable as someone with a split personality.

But no one knew that his moods had always revolved around just one person.

One word from that person, "little brother," was enough to make him sheathe his claws and fangs.

Back then, Zuo Qiufan, who hated the cold, was shivering, yet still soothing him in a gentle voice.

Ji Zhongxue had a thought: He wanted to keep living. He wanted to enter Zuo Qiufan's world.

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For you, a thousand times over. - The Kite Runner

Theme: Treat others as equals