He's So Hard to Win Over

Next up: Come on and Bait Me, I'll Carry [Esports]

Jiang Yanci, support for SUG, wins the world championship. Just as everyone expects him to keep bringing glory to his country, he chooses to retire.

Reason for retirement: an irreversible hand injury.

After retiring, he vanishes without a trace, disappearing overnight.

What no one knows is that during his career, he bought a lot of properties. After retiring, he happily settles into life as a landlord.

Collecting rent, hanging out at bars, traveling everywhere. He's living the good life.

One of the old buildings on an old street, a quaint and elegant two-story house, belongs to Jiang Yanci.

He rents it out as a studio.

The lease is for ten years.

Jiang Yanci is lazy and never meets his tenants in person, leaving everything to the agent.

All he remembers is that the tenant is a man about his age.

As for what he looks like, how tall he is, and what kind of build he has,

those are all unknowns.

In the fifth year of the lease, Jiang Yanci runs into the old building to escape a torrential downpour.

That's when he meets his tenant, Jiang Yi, for the first time.

Jiang Yi is incredibly handsome, and Jiang Yanci falls in love at first sight.

Damn, he's handsome.

Over six foot three.

And what a body. He's got to have an eight-pack!

Jiang Yanci makes a direct move. After borrowing Jiang Yi's bathroom, he corners him at his bedroom door. "Hey, handsome. Want to date?"

Jiang Yi is utterly unfazed and barely raises his eyes. "Thanks, but there's a bar at the second intersection on your left. If you're single, you can go hang out there."

Jiang Yanci: "..."

If he understood correctly, is this guy telling him to go find a rent boy at a bar?!

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Jiang Yi loves to paint. The second floor of the house is his studio, and the first floor is a tattoo parlor.

Jiang Yanci's arrival throws all his plans into disarray.

The first time they meet, Jiang Yanci is drenched, borrowing his bathroom, then brazenly blocking his bedroom door in Jiang Yi's bathrobe.

Jiang Yi: "Thanks, but no."

Still, he thinks the guy is strange, too familiar and too forward. A little too casual.

But gradually, he realizes his landlord is always around.

They run into each other while eating.

They run into each other while drinking.

Even when he goes home for New Year's, he runs into his landlord, who's supposedly "traveling."

Then one day, the landlord suddenly disappears.

He still collects rent, doesn't reply to messages on WeChat, and even blocks Jiang Yi from seeing his Moments!

Jiang Yi panics...

Bonus Scene 1

Jiang Yanci: "The first time we met, you told me to go find a rent boy at a bar."

Jiang Yi, wronged: "I didn't."

Jiang Yanci: "You said single people could go hang out there."

Jiang Yi: "...You misunderstood."

Jiang Yanci: "That's not the point. Did you know that bar belongs to me too?! I run a quiet bar! A quiet bar! We don't sell rent boys!!!"

Jiang Yi: "..."

Bonus Scene 2

Jiang Yanci: In the eight-times-speed world of esports, I could never have guessed whether that trophy of honor would ever belong to me.

But I made it.

So there's nothing I can't overcome.

[The cover model has given permission to use the image, but the image isn't exclusive. Similar covers are normal, and there's no copyright issue.]

A recommendation for my next novel: Come on and Bait Me, I'll Carry [Esports]

A story about a bot-lane duo.

A sultry beauty support bottom x a trash-talking AD top

After the transfer window closes, the two people least likely to end up on the same team in the history of the league are suddenly teammates.

#Xu Ting and Song Lan, second-chance romance# hits the trending list.

Casual fans: What the hell do you mean, second-chance romance?

Solo fans: Stay away from our Tingting (God Lan).

CP fans: Don't bother us. We're typing as fast as we can, writing fanfiction.

The internet is in an uproar, but they don't know this:

On the day Xu Ting is announced as joining WOW, he visits the WOW team base for the first time.

That very night, he sleeps with Song Lan.

Xu Ting (support bottom) x Song Lan (AD top)

Xu Ting sets out to bait someone, but ends up becoming the fish himself.

Song Lan makes it perfectly obvious he's interested. Xu Ting slept with him, so he must love him. He's just too stubborn to admit it.

Please read these notes carefully:

1. The blurb may be revised and expanded, but the core won't change.

2. An adult romance.

3. The bottom is a retired former champion support. Esports barely features, though old friends from the esports scene make appearances.

4. If you come across anything you dislike, you can leave. There are countless great novels on Jinjiang, and I hope everyone who leaves finds one they love.

5. Both are virgins, happy ending, a short and sweet story.

6. The top wasn't telling the bottom to go find a rent boy. It was a misunderstanding.

January 13, 2023. Screenshot saved for the record.

Theme: Sincere love is worth more than anything