Please Forget My Cringeworthy Past

Former child star Sang Yao faces a major choice at sixteen:

Should he keep being a box-office poison and fade into obscurity in the world of fame and fortune,

or go back to school and become the very last in his elite high school?

Sang Yao gives a lazy shrug. "I'll study."

After all, he can be a box-office poison anytime. But being last in an elite high school... that opportunity expires at eighteen.

Sang Yao had planned to go through the motions for a couple of years, then lie flat and waste the rest of his life.

But on the first day of school, because he stepped through the gate with his left foot, he was assigned to sit next to the top academic star in the school.

That, in itself, was no big deal.

The problem was...

His deskmate, a school genius whose icy aura could freeze three thousand miles and whose looks had bewitched students across three grades,

was Jiang Linfei, his childhood friend, whom he'd casually promised to marry when he was seven and just starting out as an actor, caught up in a bout of dramatic fervor.

Sang Yao, confronted with his embarrassing past: "I'm dropping out. Right now."

*

Everyone told Jiang Linfei to stay away from Sang Yao.

He was a child spoiled by the world of fame and fortune, who sucked up to the powerful, stepped on the lowly, and was eccentric and calculating.

Even Sang Yao himself shattered Jiang Linfei's childhood illusions, cornering him in the back alley at school to threaten him:

"Jiang Linfei, everything I said back then was just to mess with you. I don't like boys."

"You think you can ride my coattails and get publicity just because you have a decent face? Dream on."

"From now on, stay at least three meters away from me."

Jiang Linfei nodded.

Then he placed a rusty wire ring in Sang Yao's palm.

"Then let's call off the engagement. I won't wait for you anymore."

Then he set a pair of stuffed bears, a pair of keychains, several star-shaped wishing bottles... at Sang Yao's feet.

"I'll give the betrothal gifts back, too."

Finally, he hauled Sang Yao to the entrance of the Jiang family home.

"We should at least have one last meal together."

Sang Yao: "...Hey!"

*

The night before he confessed, Sang Yao said he'd mostly forgotten what he'd said when he was little.

If Jiang Linfei wasn't happy, they could break up at any time.

That night, Jiang Linfei was lying in bed when he reached out a little.

The sleeping person immediately wrapped himself around him and hooked an arm around his waist, clinging to him like a sloth as he murmured softly in his sleep, "Brother Linfei, hug me."

Jiang Linfei pinched his cheek.

As long as he hadn't forgotten that.

*

Tsundere, innocent young master bottom x seemingly aloof and cold, but actually extremely possessive top

Probably a straight bottom and gay top, then the bottom gets turned gay (

Two idiots falling in love, both pure and each other's first love

Theme: If you can't forget, there will be an echo