The Consequences of Kissing My Childhood Friend [Showbiz]

[Coming Soon: “You Look More Like Him with Glasses On”] Please add it to your collection! The blurb is below.

Xu Zhuoyun was the light in Bian Ye’s bleak childhood. He had fallen for him long ago, but there was nothing he could do about it. Xu Zhuoyun was homophobic and painfully slow on the uptake. He clearly saw him as nothing but a friend, yet clung to him like a puppy, constantly flirting with him.

When Xu Zhuoyun’s lips brushed his ear, he held back.

When Xu Zhuoyun blew on his back while applying medicine, he endured it.

When Xu Zhuoyun, fast asleep with his collar hanging open, tumbled into his arms, he held back and endured.

When Xu Zhuoyun asked if they could try kissing, he couldn’t resist.

Xu Zhuoyun was a little troubled. To prepare for an audition for a gay romance film, he had kissed Bian Ye in the spirit of research. Since then, Bian Ye, who had always refused to be intimate with him, kept kissing him whenever he got drunk, only to forget all about it once he sobered up.

The first time, Xu Zhuoyun panicked.

The second time, he accepted it.

The third time, he panicked again.

The fourth time, he blew up. Kissing was one thing, but Bian Ye had actually confessed his feelings to him!

Only later did he learn that every time Bian Ye lost control after drinking, it was because he could no longer contain the feelings he had harbored for years.

Then one day, in a room filled with suggestive lighting, Xu Zhuoyun tilted his head up first, asking for a deeper kiss. After that, everything sped out of control.

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Before they made a name for themselves, the two of them had nothing.

Xu Zhuoyun wrote lyrics for Bian Ye, while Bian Ye supported Xu Zhuoyun’s acting career. The industry was a hard place to survive. From being mocked to standing in the spotlight, the two weathered cold stares, taunts, and rumors, and finally achieved their dreams.

Later, top-tier star Bian Ye released a love song single, with lyrics by his mysterious longtime collaborator, “Yun.”

The single won Best Lyrics and Composition at an awards ceremony. Newcomer actor Xu Zhuoyun took the stage with Bian Ye before a captivated audience and smiled as he accepted the award for Best Lyricist, shocking the entertainment industry.

The whole internet erupted: The rising powerhouse actor writes lyrics on the side!

The CP fans went wild: Are we actually shipping a real couple?

[Reading Guide]

A deeply devoted, gentle, restrained, and commanding top x clingy, adorable, easily embarrassed puppy bottom

Genius musician x gifted lyricist and actor, mutual devotion, one-on-one romance

The top has a secret crush and gets jealous in a bittersweet way.

The bottom is just slow on the uptake and thinks he’s straight. He’s actually a little soft, naturally flirtatious, and not straight.

A realistic story with career development, not a typical entertainment-industry novel. They succeed, but this is not a wish-fulfillment story.

[Content Warnings]

Both characters have POV chapters, but there are more from the bottom’s perspective.

Includes a minor character with unrequited feelings who becomes an antagonist.

Slow burn, bittersweet at first and sweet later.

1.

At the start of his junior year, Chen Yao deliberately seduced a pure-hearted younger student three years his junior.

He used his looks, his body, and money to bind the poor boy from a mountain village, all because Si Yan looked so much like his deceased first love. He even gave Si Yan a pair of glasses and always made him wear them in bed.

Over the course of their three-year relationship, countless of Si Yan’s firsts had something to do with Chen Yao. He loved Chen Yao deeply and gave him all his heart in return, until he saw a video and discovered the ugly truth.

In the video, Chen Yao kissed someone with flushed cheeks, so shy that even his eyelashes trembled.

That person looked nine-tenths like Si Yan, wearing a familiar pair of black-rimmed glasses.

Once his actions were exposed, Chen Yao simply apologized and vanished without a trace.

2.

Two years later, Si Yan had become a prominent new figure among the elite.

Chen Yao, meanwhile, was destitute, singing for drinks at a gay bar.

By chance, they met again at the bar. Si Yan saw Chen Yao drinking with a customer and, amid their playful banter, putting glasses on him. They were the very same pair from back then!

Furious, Si Yan exposed Chen Yao’s shameless habit of still looking for a stand-in.

But Chen Yao only paused in surprise, then pushed the glasses onto Si Yan’s face, hooked an arm around his neck, drunk and smiling with dazzling elegance. “You look more like him with glasses on. Would you do it with me one more time?”

It was ridiculous, but the two ended up in bed together again.

3.

Afterward, Si Yan hated himself for having an instinctive desire for nothing but a liar. He used money to buy Chen Yao’s nights, his heart full of hatred. Chen Yao let Si Yan take as much as he wanted, then, after several days in a daze, left without taking a single cent and disappeared again.

Only then did Si Yan learn about Chen Yao’s bleak past, and that his first love had long since died. It was hopeless. No matter how much he hated him, he still loved him.

Si Yan crossed a thousand miles to find Chen Yao, his eyes red.

“Yao Yao, can we start over?”

“It’s okay if you can’t forget him. I only want half a place in your heart.”

Chen Yao had always thought that all he felt for Si Yan was exploitation and guilt, not love.

But later, he gently kissed Si Yan, who was covered in wounds, and, with tears and a lump in his throat, said “I love you” over and over.

Fortunately, he still had plenty of time to make it up to his puppy in all sorts of ways.

Theme: Hard work never lies.