The Wolfish Devoted Hound

Xu Zhou was a third-year student doing his clinical placement at a district hospital when he met a patient's family member, Yu Yang, a young man who had failed the college entrance exam. Yu Yang rode a motorcycle and skateboarded. His features were striking, his muscles sharply defined, and he was tough as nails. They kept running into each other and gradually grew close... When a patient died in front of Xu Zhou, Yu Yang gave him the strongest, most reassuring hug. For the first time, Xu Zhou fell for a guy. On the day his placement ended, he restrained himself and kissed Yu Yang on the forehead. But Yu Yang suddenly woke up, cursed him as a "fucking faggot," and punched him. Xu Zhou disappeared from Yu Yang's life completely. One year later. Xu Zhou ran into Yu Yang again at Z University, and got called a "fucking faggot" once more. After several clashes that wore him down, Xu Zhou couldn't help wondering if Yu Yang had gone to such lengths to get into Z University just to get revenge for that kiss. So he asked Yu Yang to meet, sincerely apologized for the kiss, and promised he would never bother him again. He thought the matter was settled, but Yu Yang clung to him even more than before. He got heatstroke during a forced run at military training and insisted on collapsing against him. When he got drunk, he wouldn't let anyone else touch him and demanded that Xu Zhou come pick him up. When a girl gave him a love letter, he lifted his eyes and stared straight at Xu Zhou. One day, Yu Yang tossed his most prized sketchbook to Xu Zhou. It was thick with drawings, and every single one was of Xu Zhou, in all sorts of settings and poses. "At first, I hated you. I wanted to draw you as an ugly monster, but I couldn't bring myself to..." "Later, I hated myself for drawing you, so I thought that with every stroke I'd hate you a little more. But really, all I was doing was... thinking of you one more time." * Art student (top) x medical student (bottom) * Xu Zhou is in an eight-year clinical medicine program * Happy ending, both are each other's first and only This upcoming story is ridiculously good, so please add it to your lists, everyone. I'm begging you. "Immersed in the Melodrama of a Rich-Family Love Triangle," blurb: Chi Lemann transmigrates into a book, landing in a melodramatic rich-family romance. The protagonist is a heartthrob movie star, a stunning long-haired beauty with a cool temperament and an arrogant gaze, a true beauty on a high peak. The four love interests are all hot figures among the heirs of wealthy families. Chi Lemann transmigrates as a fringe member of their circle, a plot-fodder extra who bounces between various rich-family parties. He's nominally friends with all four love interests and ends up a regular guest at their many dramatic showdowns. Chi Lemann: Got it! I'm the chosen one, here to watch the drama unfold! - Chi Lemann secretly begins his daily drama-watching routine. The first love interest is an all-powerful business magnate and an empire-builder. He's cold and sinister, dismissive in public, but behind closed doors he always looks at the protagonist with a gaze that could devour him whole. One day, Chi Lemann accidentally hears him say to the protagonist, "I'll give you back your true heir status, Lili. I only want you." Seriously? The heartthrob is stuck in a true-versus-fake heir plot too! The second love interest is a famous playboy investor in show business, rich and handsome, charming and audacious. He lavishes the protagonist with mansions and sports cars, and even wants to tailor an S-rank movie just for him. Chi Lemann is very optimistic about him at first, but later the film set turns into a battlefield of insults, and Chi Lemann realizes that not one person there is innocent. Every one of them has been tailor-made by the second love interest. Relieved that the protagonist isn't in the cast, he wanders around the set. Yep, time to keep watching the drama! The third love interest is a notorious rich-kid playboy, a rabid younger man. He confesses to the protagonist in public and comes out for love, causing a huge scandal that everyone hears about. One day, he asks Chi Lemann, "He still won't pay attention to me. If I lock him up, will he be mine alone?" Chi Lemann: Criminal. So criminal. The fourth love interest is the protagonist's former teacher, a professor in the acting department. He wears gold-rimmed glasses, speaks and behaves with polished elegance, and is gentle, courteous, and doting toward the protagonist. For a while, Chi Lemann thinks he's the best match, until... In a room in the professor's villa, he finds wall after wall covered with photos of the protagonist, packed together, taken at all kinds of times and places. That's it, he's misjudged him again. _ Chi Lemann ships the protagonist with all four love interests and has watched every bit of rich-family drama there is. At last, the crucial moment arrives. He catches the beautiful man after someone drugs him. The beauty's cheeks are flushed, his breathing is unsteady, and tears glisten in his affectionate eyes as he gazes straight at Chi Lemann. Chi Lemann holds his phone, fingertips trembling, unsure who to call. "How about you choose for yourself... Mm!" Before Chi Lemann can finish speaking, the beauty pushes him onto the bed. The next day, Chi Lemann rubs his aching lower back and suddenly realizes: Wait! Wen Li is the protagonist, isn't he? #This is a no-romance, level-up story, dear readers~ There are dramatic love-triangle showdowns, but no protagonist on the receiving end of the romance. Chi Lemann: Did I just turn a career-focused guy gay? But I'm straight too! _ All his life, Wen Li has loathed those blatant, covetous stares. He has wanted to gouge out their eyes himself and ruin the parts they take such cheap pride in. Later, the only thing Wen Li cares about every day is this: Why won't Chi Lemann look at me a little more? Long-haired beauty and aloof high-peak flower (top) x drama-loving gossip addict (bottom) Dark and brooding x little sun A few reading tips: * At first, the bottom is just a spectator, watching all the drama involving the four love interests and the wealthy families behind them. He secretly acts as a useless wingman because he likes shipping couples. * The top and bottom are both straight guys who turn each other gay. There are scenes where the bottom takes the lead. It's understandable that he'd want to do that with the beauty, but he's doomed to fail. Theme: Stay positive and keep moving forward; true love lasts forever.