After a car accident, Xie Jingchen is bound to a System and sent to Saint Laurent Academy, where he must complete conquest missions to accumulate revival points.
Qi Yan wasn't originally one of his conquest targets.
The System lists only three targets: Gu Yu, who was born with a disability; Li Yue, who has asthma; and Luo Heng, whose health is poor.
Xie Jingchen thinks conquest means making friends with them, only to discover that's not the case. He has to make them fall in love with him.
Xie Jingchen hesitates, but this is the only way he can stay alive.
Qi Yan is almost mad with jealousy. Why is he never among Xie Jingchen's choices?
His repeated boundary-crossing behavior makes Xie Jingchen realize something is wrong.
Does he like Qi Yan? He doesn't know.
But the System says Qi Yan is not one of his conquest targets.
Until one night, Qi Yan lies in his arms, barely clinging to life.
[Fragile Health Exploration Progress: 100%. Congratulations, Host, you've unlocked a hidden conquest target.]
The summer when twenty-four-year-old Xie Jingchen returns to his homeland is as scorching as the summer six years ago, when he first entered Saint Laurent.
Back then, he was an innocent, naive commoner boy. With a System that had appeared after his death, he stumbled into a world that did not belong to him. He followed fate's footsteps, meeting and coming to know those people, and falling in love with one of them, only to discover in the end that it was all an illusion, like flowers reflected in a mirror or the moon's reflection in water.
So he chose to leave, becoming the unreachable white moonlight in everyone's heart, close enough to touch yet forever beyond their grasp.
Qi Yan doesn't know how he made it through those five years. The decisiveness with which Xie Jingchen left is still vivid in his mind. He struggled and tried to make him stay, but he knew he'd lost Xie Jingchen.
"If you don't even have the courage to admit that he resembles that other person, how can you expect him to believe you love him and not someone else?"
Who does he love? The gentle, warm light from his youth, or the little sun who burst into his world, bringing warmth with him?
He already has his answer.
But when he sees Xie Jingchen again, there's already a child by his side, calling Xie Jingchen "Daddy" over and over.
Does he... already have a child?
Qi Yan feels as if someone's squeezing his heart tight. Four years old... Did he have a child soon after leaving for another country?
The little one pushes through the crowd, wraps both arms around his leg, and cries out:
"Daddy!!!"
[Bright, cheerful, optimistic, slightly slow-witted puppy-like top x sickly, stubborn, exceptionally tolerant, cold on the outside but warm on the inside CEO bottom]
One-on-one, younger top, top's perspective
★ This is an atypical aristocratic academy story, so please don't take the setting too seriously!
★ There are multiple possible conquest targets, but the top always thinks making friends means completing conquest. He only realizes later that conquest means dating.
★ The bottom has an unrequited-love storyline, but it isn't particularly prominent early on.
★ Pseudo-substitute romance, with a little pursuit-after-rejection drama for the top
★ Includes both flashbacks and nonchronological storytelling
Theme: Cherish every person by your side
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