[New Story: Magic Boy Romance is now underway! An energetic, lively, chuuni bottom x a gentle, composed top student. Chuunibyou antics throughout. If you're interested, please add it to your favorites! The blurb is at the end~]
Gu Xingchuan is a beloved kindergarten teacher, warm and friendly to everyone. The children adore him, his colleagues admire him, and the parents trust him.
In everyone's eyes, the kind and good-natured Teacher Gu is always smiling happily.
But no one knows that he's unbelievably, unbelievably, unbelievably, unbelievably... vindictive!
Except toward Yi Yunlan, his husband by contract.
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Yi Yunlan is a first-rate playboy.
He's a connoisseur of food, drink, and fun, but couldn't care less about the company's affairs.
He used to live a free and carefree life, until one day his dear old dad "kidnapped" him to the marriage registry and made him marry a man he'd met only once.
Then his good days came to an end.
To win back his freedom, he tries every trick he can think of to mess with Gu Xingchuan, only to find himself suffering "divine retribution" every time.
Divine retribution?
Yi Yunlan doesn't believe it for a second.
He's convinced that all his bad luck is Gu Xingchuan's doing, the work of that smiling fox, but he just can't find any evidence.
Luckily, the heavens are on his side. He discovers someone's signed copy of A Merit Journal.
Yi Yunlan: (furious) I found the evidence! You were behind all those things! You did it to get back at me!
Gu Xingchuan: (calmly raising an eyebrow) What else? To sing your praises?
Yi Yunlan: (stammering) You... I...
Gu Xingchuan: (blinking adorably) Keep reading. I praise you later on, too~
Yi Yunlan: (face turning red) Am I... really that bad at kissing?
Gu Xingchuan: (smiling with his chin in his hand) There's plenty of room for improvement. So, want to practice some more?
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An excerpt from Gu Xingchuan's A Merit Journal:
X Month X Day, overcast. The Second Young Master put chili and mustard in my breakfast, so I treated him to a hotpot with luosifen, repaying evil with good. If he does it again, I might put a can of herring in his wardrobe, add stinky tofu juice to his shaving foam, and spread rumors.
P.S. I feel like I've gotten more childish than I was as a kid. He needs to be taught a lesson.
X Month X Day, thunderstorm. The childish puppy tried to pretend to be a ghost and scare me, but luckily he (after weighing the pros and cons) came to his senses in time and stayed with me of his own accord. His punishment is postponed.
P.S. I don't think he noticed that I'm afraid of thunder, but the hand he used to cover my ears was so warm.
X Month X Day, light snow. He's charming when he works seriously, and just as cute as he was when we were kids. He's just too shy, and his kissing skills need work. Still, congratulations to him for upgrading from a pilot to a rose.
[Reading Guide]
1. Younger top, with a five-year age gap.
2. A baby-faced, super-strong bottom who seems gentle and kind but is actually petty and vindictive x a refined, timid top who seems like a dissolute playboy but is actually sweet and obedient.
3. There's a child, but not the biological child of either lead.
4. The romance is relatively slow-burn.
5. The author is obsessed with puns and rhymes. Please bear with me.
6. I haven't finished drawing the character sheets for the leads yet... Drawing is so hard, sob.
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Blurb for Magic Boy Romance:
My name is Luo Lean, and I'm an ordinary second-year high school student growing up on the land of China.
My name, my looks, and my grades are all ordinary. Luo Lean is a seasoned chuuni, and also the second generation of a family of mages.
Unfortunately, he learns this far too late. Before his heart can even begin to soar, he's told he's already too old and can never meet his own spirit.
His teenage heart shatters, but he refuses to give up. He discusses the possibility of getting special treatment with his mom (a magical girl, whose identity has already been exposed).
"Don't mages have an official administrative department? You're an insider, so you could totally get me in as an intern! I can start in support. I'm not picky~"
Then he's firmly rejected and packed off to the neighbors' house, where his handsome, elegant, brilliant, unparalleled childhood friend and top student, Wen Lang, is tasked with tutoring this academic slacker.
Damn it!
How can a vibrant seventeen-year-and-eight-month-old high school boy waste his precious time on something like studying?!
Just as Luo Lean is about to explode from resentment, a miracle happens.
He finally gets his own... defective spirit.
It's okay.
He reassures himself.
As long as I can transform into a mage, nothing else matters!
And so, the magical boy (unregistered edition) L-R Aether makes his grand debut, repeatedly saving ordinary people caught in danger by mutated plants.
But once he takes off this secret identity, he's still a high school senior with less than a year left before the college entrance exams.
The world: "Aaaah! The plants in the mall are attacking me!"
Wen Lang: "Lele, let's review how to find the common tangent to a sphere and a geometric solid today."
Luo Lean: "A Lang, do I look like a ball? Why don't you give me a good beating..."
The world: "Waaah~ A plant is trying to hypnotize me, and so many people want to jump into the sea or off buildings!"
Wen Lang: "Lele, your target score for this midterm is 550. Do your best!"
Luo Lean: "A Lang, wake up. Why not set my target as getting into Tsinghua or Peking University?"
The world: "Waaah... Mint is running rampant and wants to play bondage. What do I do?!"
Wen Lang: "Lele, I think we can stay together forever. Will you?"
The magical boy is about to lose it.
No one said being a mage meant balancing a career and family!
Wait!
Did... someone just confess to me?
[An energetic, lively, chuuni bottom x a gentle, composed top student]
Theme: Good love can make two timid people brave.
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Xingchuan: Lanlan, you are so generous~
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