My Childhood Friend Became a Top-Tier Star, and I Became Famous Too

After returning to the country, Lin Feichi opened a cafe.

The cafe had nothing special going for it and business was slow. Its monthly profits barely covered the rent.

Until one day, entertainment reporters photographed the popular top-tier star Ji Heshі at a cafe, chatting late into the night with its owner. The two were rumored to be close friends.

Fans flocked to check it out, only to discover...

[Wow, the owner's so good-looking. Handsome guys have handsome friends.]

[So they grew up together. No wonder they were chatting late into the night.]

The top-tier star's frequent visits sent the cafe's business booming.

Gradually, netizens began to notice something was off.

[Ji Heshі said a year ago that the country he most wanted to visit was Country Y, and the owner happened to be studying there at the time.]

[Ji Heshі visits the cafe more often than he goes home.]

[Childhood friends are kind of a great ship.]

Everyone knew that Ji Heshі had never liked publicity stunts, and especially hated having his name linked with anyone else's.

As the childhood-friends shippers grew in number, a reporter asked him, "Do you mind people shipping you with your childhood friend, even trending it?"

Ji Heshі: I don't mind. Ship away.

Ji Heshі (smiling): Maybe you're shipping a real couple.

The whole internet: !

Some people mocked them, too: "They used to be childhood friends, but now one is a big star and the other is just an ordinary cafe owner who needs a celebrity to help his business. Tsk."

Later, Lin Feichi's other identities were dug up.

"He graduated from the physics department at N University. A bona fide genius."

"His pen name is Fansen."

"So the cafe is just a side gig. His real job is being a world-famous sci-fi author, and even the leader of Country D is a fan!"

The whole internet erupted again.

#Studied physics at the world's number-one university to write better sci-fi, then opened a cafe as a place to work#

#Redefining the 'ordinary cafe owner'#

Sunny, straightforward, clingy big-dog seme vs. a catlike uke who doesn't realize he's a tease

Coming soon: The Gods Keep Me Company Tonight

A miniature city appeared on Yu Zhe's desk.

The city's civilization was backward. Everyone cultivated, and they often left the city to fight strange beasts. But the spells they cast looked like projected special effects and had no real power.

Yu Zhe watched the miniature city's development. Whenever he cleaned his room, he'd sometimes water its dry areas or dust off its dirty ones.

Then he saw a tiny person who looked just like one of his figurines in danger, and couldn't help reaching out to save him.

*

Yecheng was an abandoned land of the gods.

Disease, natural disasters, and strange beasts meant that every citizen had to cultivate from birth and fight for survival.

As the city lord's successor, Ling Yuan had once resented the unfairness of fate and tried to change it, but all his efforts were futile, and he gradually fell into despair, until he saw a miracle while on the brink of death.

A new god began to watch over Yecheng. This god not only sent blessed rain and drove away poisonous fog, but also saved his life more than once.

He swore to spend his life believing in and pursuing that god.

*

One day, the miniature city disappeared.

Earth was attacked by a formidable enemy. Technology-based weapons were useless against the eerie creatures. At the brink of the apocalypse, an ancient, mysterious city descended from the sky, named Yecheng. Its soldiers were all powerful cultivators, and its city lord, Ling Yuan, was unfathomable and extraordinarily handsome, like an immortal banished from ancient times.

Governments around the world asked Yecheng to send troops to help.

The city lord agreed, but on one condition: he wanted to marry a human from Earth.

The moon hangs high in the starry river, beautiful and alluring. I love it dearly.

I don't want to pluck it. I want to fly to it.

P.S. The eerie creatures that appear on Earth have nothing to do with Yecheng.

A god-disguised uke who doesn't realize his lover sees through him x a lovesick seme who sees through him but doesn't say so. They save each other.

Theme: People should understand themselves clearly