Reading Your Mind

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After arriving in ancient times, Qiao Wenyong had thought he could at least make a name for himself. He was a dark-skinned college student, after all.

He had knowledge and technology to spare.

He had strength and tricks up his sleeve.

"What do you have?" Xie Heng asked with a smile.

"Nothing. I have absolutely nothing."

Qiao Wenyong gave an awkward laugh and hurriedly tossed out the window one invention after another, each painstakingly developed over countless sleepless nights.

If I was born, why was Xie Heng born too?

This chief editor of the Wuding Canon and notorious villain recorded in the history books knew everything from astronomy to geography, and could even conjure up every manner of trick from a romance novel. This wasn't the traitorous minister he'd imagined, nor was this the backward ancient world he'd assumed it would be. Qiao Wenyong had to face the truth: his parents had been right. He was the real idiot, someone who'd failed nine out of ten subjects. He had to go home, attend vocational college, and make his way in modern society!

But Xie Heng picked up his inventions, dusted them off, and told him what he'd done well, what was already good, and what could be even better with a few adjustments.

"My servant has talent." Xie Heng gently stroked his head, making Qiao Wenyong's ears turn red.

What was that for? Was he being petted like a puppy?

And yet he fell for it every time.

So, in the end, he never made it back. His envy turned to desire, and in the gentle haven that was Xie Heng, he lost all sense of the world around him. He wasn't sure how much Xie Heng felt for him,

but he was sure Xie Heng felt something for him!

Otherwise, why did Xie Heng's subordinates always look at him like they wanted to kill him?

A man should be magnanimous, but a man's man has to fight for what he wants. So Qiao Wenyong decided to make the first move

and confess to Xie Heng!

But,

Xie Heng looked at him with a very strange expression. Qiao Wenyong hadn't read many books, but even he understood that this was a polite but decisive rejection. So it turned out he'd been imagining the whole thing. Heartbroken, Qiao Wenyong turned away and joined the ranks of those building the country, completely unaware of Xie Heng fidgeting behind him.

Xie Heng had no way to explain himself. It wasn't that he was trying to pull rank, but...

When a modern man confesses to his own ancestor,

wouldn't anyone need a moment to sort out their thoughts?

Naive, flirtatious college student bottom x gentle, refined, supernatural top

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Before You Read:

Chapters 73 onward are set in the present.

Chapters 3-72 are set in the past.

Chapters 1-2 are set in the present.

Yin Yanxin (bottom) x Jiang Yuzhou (top)

A sickly bottom. As a child, Yin Yanxin was sent to live with relatives in the countryside, while his parents' family celebrated his little cousin's birthday. Yin Yanxin was all alone in the hospital, nearly dying of an asthma attack. Like duckweed, he drifted without a home, always left behind by his birth parents for one reason or another. So he trusted neither family nor strangers.

The top and bottom meet under these circumstances.

They start off fighting, but gradually come to know and understand each other. For the first time, Yin Yanxin feels his whole family cares about him, but only because of his excessive dependence on and ambiguous relationship with Jiang Yuzhou.

Fragile wings need time to grow strong. The long wait wears down the more sensitive Yin Yanxin, and before Jiang Yuzhou arrives, depression gets to him first.

Proud, sensitive bottom x tender, devoted top

One-on-one, happy ending

A Humble Warning:

1. I admit the setup in the first two chapters is a little long-winded...

2. Niche fiction, and my brain is offline from time to time.

3. If you don't like it, please don't flame me. Feel free to leave, and please don't make personal attacks.

4. I'm tearing my hair out. I really don't know how to write blurbs.

Theme: Learn to grow through setbacks and to communicate effectively with family and loved ones in adversity.