Can You Turn Your Straight Archenemy Gay?

My next novel will be The Sickly Omega Marries the Brutal Tycoon in Someone Else's Place. I'll beg and plead for you to take a look~

Shi Nian is the universally acknowledged campus beauty at Nanda University. He's gentle and friendly, and everyone, men and women alike, loves him.

Jiang Huaixu has it all: looks, physique, and family background. There's nothing he can't do except study. Known as the ultimate top, he's also intensely homophobic.

Shi Nian can't stand Jiang Huaixu's bad temper and arrogant attitude. Jiang Huaixu can't stand Shi Nian's holier-than-thou act, and that's before you even consider that Shi Nian might be gay.

For some reason, the school administrators insist that Shi Nian take charge of Jiang Huaixu, their "problem student."

Shi Nian tells him to pay attention in class, so Jiang Huaixu deliberately skips class and sends Shi Nian a photo to taunt him.

Shi Nian promptly forwards the photo to the administrators. With his head held down, Jiang Huaixu grits his teeth and apologizes to Shi Nian. "I'm sorry, senior."

Shi Nian goes to shower. Jiang Huaixu waits outside the door, then deliberately puts Shi Nian's clothes where he can't reach them when he comes out.

Watching Shi Nian's face redden with anger, Jiang Huaixu smiles slyly. "Sorry, senior."

Their increasingly bitter feud finally boils over when Jiang Huaixu sees Shi Nian being intimate with another guy.

Jiang Huaixu yanks Shi Nian's hand off the guy's back and pins him against the wall, shouting, "You're really gay?! How disgusting!"

Shi Nian had only been comforting a classmate who was heartbroken after a failed confession: ?

The more Jiang Huaixu thinks about it afterward, the angrier he gets. He unilaterally declares that they're no longer on speaking terms, then waits for Shi Nian to come explain himself.

But Shi Nian really does stop seeing him.

Jiang Huaixu: He's really gay!

Jiang Huaixu: I'm mad!!

After their falling-out, Jiang Huaixu keeps feeling like something is wrong.

A friend invites him out to eat. The girl across from him pours him a drink with an ambiguous smile, and Jiang Huaixu thinks her smile isn't as pretty as Shi Nian's. When he comes back to himself, he's crushed the glass in his hand, his face dark.

He goes out and comes back with a ridiculous stuffed rabbit. After hugging it all night, he realizes it might be the kind Shi Nian likes.

Jiang Huaixu wants to apologize, but Shi Nian is unusually firm and even avoids him.

This dazed, miserable state lasts for half a month, until Jiang Huaixu sees Shi Nian having dinner with a girl, being gentle and considerate, his smile full of tenderness.

That night, Jiang Huaixu tosses and turns before texting Shi Nian: "Don't you like men?"

Shi Nian: "Who told you I like men?"

Not long afterward, the newly crowned campus heartthrob Jiang Huaixu, who almost never posts on the campus forum, updates his status:

Yes, I like men.

A little scene about Jiang Huaixu's emotional journey:

At first: Damn it, how can anyone like men?

Later: Damn it, how can anyone not like Shi Nian!

*Enemies at first, then the top realizes he's fallen hard.

*A little crematorium arc.

Coming soon: After the Devoted Bottom Gives Up

Qi Xu had been brothers with Si Jingheng for five years, and had loved him for five years too.

On the day they graduated from college, Qi Xu worked up the courage to confess to Si Jingheng, thinking that if he was rejected, he would go abroad.

Si Jingheng's eyes gave nothing away. He pulled Qi Xu into his arms and raised an eyebrow with a smile. "Want to give it a try?"

Qi Xu thought his sincerity had moved him and happily agreed.

A few years later, at a birthday banquet, Qi Xu found an invitation his friend had dropped. The name on it stung.

It was an invitation to Si Jingheng's engagement party. The same Si Jingheng who had held him in bed that very day and promised him a gift was about to get engaged.

That night, Qi Xu appeared without warning and asked him, "Were you only trying to humiliate me from the start?"

Si Jingheng chuckled. "What else? Weren't you the one who insisted on loving me? Did you really think I'd marry a man?"

Qi Xu took two steps back, smiling as warmly as ever. "All right. I hope you have a long and happy marriage, and lots of children."

Before long, Qi Xu disappeared.

Much later, Qi Xu was resting on a rocking chair when a hand gently caressed his face. He furrowed his brow and said reproachfully, "All right, stop messing around."

The other person didn't answer. Puzzled, Qi Xu opened his eyes and saw a face he never wanted to see again, not even in his dreams.

Si Jingheng asked, his voice choked with emotion, "Do you... have a boyfriend?"

"That's none of your business." It was the first time Qi Xu had ever rejected Si Jingheng.

Si Jingheng never imagined that years later, his greatest wish would be for Qi Xu to love him again someday.

Theme: Cherish the person in front of you.