Little Boat

1.

Few people know that the famous author Gu Miao is depressed and solitary, like the shadow hidden in darkness in his crime stories: gloomy and unable to bear the light.

Chi Nian, however, was like a ball of fire. She barged into his world and made him sink, fall deep, and lose all ability to pull himself free.

A little boat drifted slowly across the water, carrying a light. From then on, the boundless sea held his one and only salvation.

2.

After his new book's sales soared yet again, author Gu Miao was thrust back into the public eye. In a break from his usual habits, he accepted his first interview since entering the industry.

From a few blurry old photos that had circulated online to the living, breathing man on the television screen, countless netizens were stunned and set the internet ablaze: How can someone who looks like that be allergic to people!??

Amid the chatter in the livestream comments, the host asked the question that had received the most votes on behalf of all those watching: "Mr. Gu Miao, rumors say you stayed out of the public eye because you were ill. May I ask what made you change your mind?"

On screen, the man curled his lips into a smile. Even the camera couldn't hide the tenderness in his eyes. "I met someone in the year I was about to give up on myself, and she saved me."

"At the same time, I'd like to tell those of you stumbling through the darkness: you will find your own salvation. It may be yourself, or it may be someone who loves you more than you love yourself. Please don't turn away from the light."

1. The male lead really is ill, but he will recover later.

2. A fluffy, no-brains-needed sweet romance. Please point out any professional inaccuracies.

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Will the Sickly Beauty Be Cherished Today?

[Cold-faced, devoted dog of a top who does the laundry x sickly, avoidant fox of a bottom]

In the third year after breaking up with his ex,

Song Yisheng ran into Pei Zhao beneath the dazzling, kaleidoscopic lights of a bar.

The man was still wearing the blue sapphire stud Song Yisheng had given him when they broke up. Shards of light glinted against his cold expression.

Amid the surging noise, Song Yisheng watched his lips move.

What was he saying? He couldn't hear.

Under the combined influence of alcohol and medication,

he yanked the silk tie from around the other's neck, rose onto his tiptoes, and let himself sink into this long-awaited dream

only to flee in disarray at dawn.

Half a month later,

he was unexpectedly injured and hospitalized. Pei Zhao stormed into his room at two in the morning. When he looked up, his handsome brows were tightly knit, pain roiling in his eyes.

"Why aren't you saying anything?"

"Are you hungry?"

"Or... do you not want to see me?"

Song Yisheng sat with his head bowed in the corner, not saying a word. Yet the instant Pei Zhao opened his mouth, his eyes reddened without warning.

-

Do you think Pei Zhao resents him for leaving without a word?

Of course he does.

But love is often even more stubborn and unreasonable

His lover is afraid of the dark, rain, and thunder. He always gets allergies when the seasons change.

He's like a rose that needs to live in a greenhouse:

fragile, beautiful, and, in the one thing that matters, steadfast in loving him.

Pei Zhao decided long ago that he would never let go.

But during the long wait, he also learned to rein in the restlessness gnawing at him.

Of course, there are exceptions.

After all... when it comes to certain things, men are beasts who let it go in one ear and out the other (x).

-

It was spring once more, on a certain night when rain poured down in torrents.

On the moonlit terrace, the swing creaked. From behind the still, hanging crimson curtains emerged a pair of slender hands with distinct knuckles, dusted with a faint blush.

"Bastard."

A wet, hoarse voice came down with the raindrops.

"I told you not to let go..."

"Can't you hear me!?"

Reading Guide:

1. Cold-faced, laundry-doing devoted dog of a top x sickly, avoidant fox of a bottom.

2. At heart, it's a sweet story about a top pampering his bottom, with some 'says one thing, means another' wife-spoiling romance.

3. For fans of sickly bottoms and doting tops. Includes some descriptions of illness, so please mind the tags, dear readers.

4. Angst? Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet.

"If one day I had to leave him for a long time, how would I miss him? How would I miss him and dream of him? How would I be unable to dream of him because I didn't dare to miss him?", Shi Tiesheng

Theme: Love can heal anything.