How to Tame a Short-Tempered Puppy

Chi Yun always knew he had a fiancé he'd been engaged to since childhood. They hadn't seen each other in years, though, and in his memory, the boy was still a sweet, obedient little kid.

When they met again, that little kid had turned into a sharp-toothed, sharp-clawed wolf pup. Reeking of alcohol, he made a scene, seeming utterly unwilling to go through with the engagement.

Chi Yun looked at the wolf pup's strikingly aggressive face and fell silent for a moment. Right then and there, he agreed to call off the engagement, then grew closer to an old high school classmate.

Not long after, the wolf pup stopped him, head bowed in apology.

"Chi Yun, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have snapped at you."

"I was just drunk and acting crazy that day. I'm sorry I offended you."

"Chi Yun, did I cause you trouble?"

Chi Yun watched the young man blush from his face all the way down to his neck. The kid was so easily embarrassed. He waved it off, ready to let bygones be bygones. But after that, the guy stuck to him like glue. He followed him around every day, and whenever Chi Yun told him to go home, he'd put on the most pitiful expression.

Just like a little stray dog.

"Chi Yun, I'm worried about you working overtime alone."

"Chi Yun, if your boyfriend is busy, can I come pick you up after work?"

"Chi Yun, I made breakfast. Hurry and eat."

"Chi Yun, I'm sorry. If your boyfriend gets mad, I won't come around anymore."

"Chi Yun, I think I saw your boyfriend at a bar with a younger guy yesterday... Sorry, I must have been mistaken."

Looking at the wolf pup who acted like a puppy, Chi Yun couldn't help feeling that something wasn't quite right.

Until one day, the wolf pup, drunk and unsteady, pinned him against the wall and looked at him through damp lashes. "Chi Yun, forget that scumbag. Look at me instead."

==

Gu Xi once had a crazy crush on someone.

From his ignorant youth to the first stirrings of love, he spied on the other man like a creep.

He was a vile dog, while the other man was a flower on a high peak, a bright, pure moon. At first, he only wanted to watch from afar. But later, a greedy desire to possess him began to grow.

On the day he came of age, Gu Xi's world turned upside down.

The Gu family had switched babies at the hospital. He was the fake young master who'd been switched at birth.

The Gu family used the debt he owed them for raising him to blackmail him, forcing him to take the real young master's place in the engagement to the Chi family.

Gu Xi had no intention of going through with an engagement to the Chi family's eldest son. He deliberately got drunk before meeting him, hoping to put him in his place.

But after sobering up, he stared at the man before him, frozen in place.

The good news: his fiancé was the person he'd been secretly in love with.

The bad news: he'd just gotten drunk and made a fool of himself, earning the achievement "Back to Being Single."

[Reader's Guide]

1. A short-tempered puppy top and a gentle older bottom.

2. Gu Xi is the top, and Chi Yun is the bottom.

3. Same-sex marriage is legal in this setting.

4. There's no logic, and I don't want writing advice or premature criticism. Comments touching on the above will be deleted, so please don't argue about it.

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