Don't Even Think About Tricking Me Into Confessing!!

[Bonus extra chapters released from time to time] [Recommending a friend’s story: “Pretending to Be an Alpha in an All-Alpha Boy Band” by Xingqi Shi] [New story “Bro, You’re Not Allowed to Hit My Husband!!” is currently updating. Visit my author page to try it out ^^] As a socially anxious person, Wen Chi was naturally afraid of extroverts like his classmate Tan Xubai. Tan Xubai was handsome, smart, emotionally intelligent, a big name on campus, and practically perfect in every way. Wen Chi could see how much people liked him. Tan Xubai’s affection for him was over 100. The guy even had such unconventional sexual orientation! Wen Chi immediately started avoiding him. In PE, he refused the water Tan Xubai offered, and the affection score above Tan Xubai’s head went up by [ +5 ]. They ran into each other in the hallway. Wen Chi ignored Tan Xubai’s casual greeting, but the affection score went up by [ +3 ]. During a big cleanup, they were assigned to the same group and had to work together. After exchanging a few words, the other guy’s affection score... [ -4 ]!!! Wen Chi: ?? Does he only like me when I keep my distance? Is this a case of pushing him away so he’ll stay?! * To make Tan Xubai hate him, Wen Chi needed to get closer to him. Wen Chi frantically worked himself up. Going against his socially anxious nature, he took the initiative to befriend him: He sent messages, asked for help with difficult questions, racked his brain for things to say, and invited him out on weekends... As their relationship improved, the guy’s affection score steadily dropped: 100, 85, 40, 21... An affection score of 20 separated indifference from dislike. Below 20 meant they were enemies. The number kept falling. 20, 18... Had he done something wrong? Had Tan Xubai secretly started hating him? If he kept his distance, the affection score should go back up to a normal range, so Wen Chi started avoiding him again. He stopped replying to messages, turned down invitations, and stayed silent. This time, the affection score kept falling as if determined to take his life. 5, 4, 3... Tan Xubai chatted and laughed with his classmates, glancing at him with an unreadable smile. 2, 1... Tan Xubai stopped talking to him, his gaze growing more and more tangible. Wen Chi felt a chill run down his back. Then, on the day the affection score reached zero, Tan Xubai asked him to go out alone. His voice was icy, his teeth clenched. “, You know, don’t you?” Wen Chi, trembling with fear: Know what? That you want to secretly assassinate me? Tan Xubai: “I like you.” Wen Chi: “...?” W-wait a minute? That number above Tan Xubai’s head wasn’t an affection score? #It was actually a countdown to his confession!# * Tan Xubai was born emotionally cold, yet could easily win people’s affection. So when a boy named Wen Chi suddenly approached him, he didn’t think much of it. The boy was nervous and cautious. It was obvious what he meant. Tan Xubai never expected to fall for him. But after that, Wen Chi suddenly started avoiding him like the plague. Maybe he was playing hard to get? Then there was no harm in taking the initiative a little. It was obvious. As long as he confessed first There was no way Wen Chi would give him any other answer. So it really was true ^_^ *A cold-faced, overthinking, slightly anxious and socially awkward bottom X a seemingly outgoing but inwardly cold, backed-into-a-corner BKing top *The bottom is shy, gentle, and socially anxious at first, but he grows. *A summer-only sweet treat, a short story, under 200,000 words (success! The main story is 190,000!) * [After completion, I revised the story without changing the plot. I mainly changed the wording of Tan’s early thoughts about Chichi and some of his actions. I was too influenced by Japanese comics, and in the earlier version I wrote Tan as too tsundere, constantly making an “Ugh, gross!” face while stubbornly clinging to him. After leaving it for a while and rereading it, I realized that this portrayal didn’t work well, so I made revisions. If you’re curious, you can compare the versions on a second read. I hope you’ll like it too ^^] Theme: Gaze at the stars, and treasure every second.