Eight Years After Our Breakup, I Still Like You

During the three summer months, his parents would leave him behind to go work elsewhere. His older brother and Grandma raised him.

When he was two, his parents divorced.

The two brothers were a burden, and could only depend on Grandma and each other.

His older brother, Xia Chen, was gay. When he was sixteen, he was caught getting handsy with a male classmate outside the school gates, and was outed in front of everyone.

Rumors flew all over the village. When Xia Chen went to university, he chose Haicheng, the city farthest from home, and tearfully left his younger brother and Grandma behind.

When Xia Ji was in his second year of high school, Grandma couldn't afford his tuition. Xia Ji had always been stubbornly proud, and seeing how old Grandma had grown, he had no choice but to drop out. Two months later, his brother Xia Chen came back, took him away from the village, brought him to Haicheng, and got him into First High School.

Qiu Yu called himself the school bully at First High. He couldn't stand the new student, and Xia Ji didn't like him either. Their first impression of each other was, "This guy was born to make my life miserable."

It took Xia Ji less than three days at First High to clash with Qiu Yu.

When Qiu Yu and his lackeys hid in the bathroom to smoke, Xia Ji would shut the door and lock them inside, then bring the dean over and open the door so they could be caught red-handed.

When Qiu Yu and his buddies tried to climb the wall during evening study hall to sneak off to an internet cafe, they had just reached the top when they saw their archenemy and the dean standing below, looking up at them.

When Qiu Yu played on his phone in class, Xia Ji reported him.

When he slept, Xia Ji reported him.

Xia Ji didn't spare any of the guys who hung out with him, either.

The lackeys felt like they were living in misery, and one after another pleaded with him: "Brother Yu, we can't keep living like this."

Qiu Yu: "Let me think of a plan."

Later...

The guys tried climbing the wall during evening study hall again to go to the internet cafe. They spotted the dean approaching from far away, and just as they thought they were done for, Xia Ji showed up and called the dean away. Half an hour later, he arrived at the internet cafe carrying a bag of canned Wangzai milk and said to their boss:

"It's time to go back."

Their boss said, "No way. I've played this level three times and still haven't beaten it."

Then they heard their boss's archenemy sigh. After a long silence, he said, "I'll help you. Have something to drink first, so you don't go hungry."

The lackeys: "Brother Yu, what's going on here? Did he put rat poison in that Wangzai milk?"

Qiu Yu: "Impossible. Don't talk nonsense. He's my boyfriend now."

"..."

Sharp-tongued, reserved, and gentle (top) x Acts like he owns the world (bottom)

Originally titled Selfish.

Theme: To be determined