My Straight-Laced Childhood Friend Went Gay at Lightning Speed After I Confessed

Blurb:

As the most handsome guy in A University's chemistry department and the top pick for "dream boyfriend," Shang Qianqi has received countless love letters and confessions since starting college, but not one relationship has worked out. The culprit is his childhood friend and roommate, Han Jiangyu.

Han Jiangyu is tall and long-legged, with an eight-pack and a body brimming with sex appeal. He's known as the walking top in the math department. But in truth, he's a wolf circling Shang Qianqi, leaving nothing but devastation in his wake and mercilessly crushing every romantic prospect Shang Qianqi has.

His friends are indignant on his behalf, but Shang Qianqi never gets upset. In fact, he enjoys it, because he has a secret: he likes Han Jiangyu.

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Shang Qianqi thinks Han Jiangyu likes him too, because Han Jiangyu treats him so well.

So well that he acts as Shang Qianqi's human hot-water bottle when the latter is cold and can't sleep; so well that he carries him all the way to the mountaintop when he twists his ankle hiking; so well that he'll come running no matter how far away he is, just because Shang Qianqi called.

Shang Qianqi waits a long time, but Han Jiangyu never confesses. So he decides to make the first move.

When he brings a carefully prepared confession gift to find Han Jiangyu, he sees a boy standing in front of him, pale-faced and crying his eyes out.

He hears Han Jiangyu say impatiently:

"How many times do I have to repeat myself? I'm straight! I'm not interested in men! You're disgusting!"

Shang Qianqi opens his phone and sees that Han Jiangyu has changed his social media bio to: Male, interested in women.

The boy asks, "What about Shang Qianqi?"

Han Jiangyu: "He's my best friend."

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Shang Qianqi finally comes to his senses and realizes that it was all one-sided.

He starts deliberately keeping his distance from Han Jiangyu, refusing a whole string of intimate activities, like buying matching socks, sleeping naked in the same bed, and kissing during Truth or Dare.

After Shang Qianqi once again refuses to shower together, claiming he doesn't feel well, Han Jiangyu yanks him into the bathroom and grits out:

"Keep pretending and I'll strip you myself."

Shang Qianqi stops pretending and admits, "What if it's because I like you?"

Han Jiangyu freezes.

Shang Qianqi gives a self-deprecating laugh and offers, "I'll move out."

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Shang Qianqi holds on to a sliver of hope. He thinks maybe he's just attracted to men, and that he doesn't necessarily have to be with Han Jiangyu.

He decides to take a new step and accepts a date with a senior who's admired him for a long time.

But just as he's about to leave, Han Jiangyu pins him to the bed, his voice angry and trembling:

"Isn't having me enough?"

P.S.:

1. One-on-one pairing, both are virgins and each other's first love, happy ending.

2. Sweet and sour, especially a little angsty early on. It's not all sweetness.

3. Although the top turns the bottom straight, the top is a gentleman: even if he's the bottom's sexual awakening, the top is the one who receives.

4. A chauvinistic, possessive, hypocritical, doting top vs. a gentle, sensitive, delicate beauty who doesn't realize how adorable he is as the bottom.

Recommended ongoing story 1: "The Frail Beauty in Dire Straits Is Doted on by a Powerful Man"

As the least favored young master of the Shi family, Shi Yunheng is naturally chosen as the family crisis's sacrificial pawn and sent to marry a powerful man.

Lu Sui is a rising star in Qicheng. Though he comes from an ordinary family, he throws his weight around and rules the city, keeping several prominent wealthy families in Qicheng too intimidated to even breathe.

According to the rumors, Lu Sui is violent-tempered and ruthless, and still has an unforgettable first love in his heart.

Meanwhile, Shi Yunheng is injured in an accident, leaving him frail and difficult to treat. His temperament also grows sensitive and fragile, quick to anger and irritability.

A sickly, disagreeable young man like him enters the Lu family, and surely Lu Sui will despise him and throw him out within two months.

But months pass, and Shi Yunheng still hasn't been kicked out.

The Lu family's servants say muffled, restrained sobs often come from the villa. They sound so miserable that it must be Shi Yunheng being mistreated and rejected by Lu Sui.

The Shi brothers, who like to mock Shi Yunheng for being a sickly weakling, come by to see him make a fool of himself.

Instead, they see Lu Sui, rumored to be gloomy and vicious, letting the frail beauty lean against him. His expression is gentle and patient as he strokes the young man's back, slowly easing the agitation and unease between his brows.

*

To Lu Sui, the pampered young master is the only glimmer of light in his boundless dark night.

He's a gorgeous rose, refreshing moonlight, proud and precious, seemingly beyond reach.

Lu Sui never meant to touch him, only to hide his secret feelings in the shadows.

But in the brief moment he turns away, the rose is dragged into the mud.

Its stem breaks, and thorns grow.

It doesn't matter. He'll wash away every speck of mud, smooth down the thorns, and help new leaves grow, while clearing away the filth from the ground.

Lu Sui becomes that fresh soil, nourishing his rose until it blooms once more in dazzling, delicate splendor.

P.S.:

Sweet and doting, healing; a very classic mutual-rescue romance.

One-on-one, both physically and emotionally devoted, happy ending.

Recommended upcoming story 2: "My Shattered First Love"

At twenty-six, Bai Qi has no interest in women or men and has never even dated. His friends tease him as a "lifelong virgin."

Bai Qi never takes the teasing to heart, because only he knows that a certain first love has always lived in his heart.

That person appeared when he was young: tall and slender, gentle and beautiful, like a breeze blowing into his world and settling in his heart, becoming the soft, lovely image of his first love that never faded.

*

Bai Qi has imagined countless scenarios in which he reunites with his first love. Of all the possibilities, whether mundane or romantic, none resemble what happens now:

He, the chairman of a massive conglomerate worth hundreds of billions, has been robbed of every possession worth more than a hundred yuan and mistaken by his employees for a pretty boy who secretly sells his body.

He's left to wander the streets with not even his underwear, freezing all night!

The person responsible for his humiliating, wretched predicament is none other than his first love himself.

Oh, but at this point, he still doesn't know that the gorgeous man in front of him, who's good for nothing but his face, is the first love he's been longing for over the past ten years.

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In Bai Qi's eyes, Xu Qianzheng is unable to walk properly, has no morals, swindles people, and lies constantly. Every last thing about him is a flaw, everything about him is detestable.

He vows to get revenge on Xu Qianzheng for all the humiliation he suffered that day, then get as far away from him as possible and never have anything to do with him again.

But by a twist of fate, Bai Qi and Xu Qianzheng spend a night together.

Then, on a whim, Bai Qi decides to enter into a contract marriage with Xu Qianzheng.

The term is four years.

Bai Qi certainly doesn't think that he'll be the one to regret setting an expiration date or ending the contract.

Until the day Xu Qianzheng leaves.

P.S.:

A CEO top with character flaws who's not your typical domineering CEO [Bai Qi] vs. a worldly, outwardly warm but inwardly cold, unfeeling bottom [Xu Qianzheng].

Features enemies-to-lovers, marriage before love, childhood friends becoming strangers, power plays, forced love, and other angsty tropes.

A massive, massive groveling arc: the top will chase after the bottom on his knees, crying his eyes out. In return, his behavior early on is absolutely awful; the bottom is the top's kryptonite; the top goes crazy while chasing his love.

One-on-one, both are virgins and each other's first love, happy ending.

Theme: Build a new home together with your best friend.