There’s Something Off About My Roommate

[Told in third person. A sweet little romance. Many kisses for all the angels who support the official release.] -Next up: the unrequited-love story Getting Married First, Falling in Love Later with My Ex's Younger Brother. Please add it to your favorites, angels!- When I graduated, a luxury apartment fell right out of the sky. The rent was only 500, basically free, except I had to share it with someone. I couldn't imagine a normal person turning down such a bargain, so I signed the lease and moved right in. The good news: My roommate was a godsend, handsome, tall, gentle (?), and rich. Unfortunately, he was gay. And I was homophobic. The bad news: My roommate seemed to be trying to get with me. And I was deep in the closet. * I'd imagined my first love a few times. I thought it would be like those tearful, mutual romances in anime: a knight defeats a dragon and takes the brave princess by the hand. In short, it would be utterly pure. I never imagined it would be like this: A delicate key landed in my palm. Its owner showed no shame as he said, "Whenever you're ready to accept me, help me unlock it." It felt like I was holding a spark, and the heat sent my heart racing at two hundred miles an hour. Unlock what? This wasn't the pure love I had imagined! I asked in a trembling voice, "What happens if I never unlock it?" Darkness I couldn't understand gathered in my roommate's eyes. He leaned close to my ear. "Then we'll have to settle for a Platonic relationship." & You are the desire I cannot speak of. *The blurb was screenshotted on April 20, 2023. Reading guide: 1v1, both leads are virgins, and this is the kind of first love where they want to stay together in their next life, too. Xie Chengwang (seme) x Yi Yuanyuan (uke). A super possessive, super dominant seme who painfully suppresses his desires and patiently plays the saint for the uke x a lively, cute, adorably clueless uke with an extremely long reaction time. [Important]: Neither lead has any unusual fetishes. [Important]: The story revolves around intense, drawn-out mutual pining. The central trope runs through the entire novel, so this may not suit impatient readers. [Please note]: My writing skills are limited and I can't please everyone. Please don't buy the whole novel at once. If it's not for you, stop reading in time. Please add Getting Married First, Falling in Love Later with My Ex's Younger Brother to your favorites Gu Xinxin thought he was unbelievably unlucky. He'd just broken up with a scumbag when he received a marriage alliance agreement from the scumbag's younger brother. The scumbag's younger brother was named Qi Ye. He held the real power in the Qi family, and was richer and better-looking than his older brother. People said he was arrogant and unpredictable, and nobody dared approach him. Gu Xinxin didn't dare provoke him either, but his own father was such a monster that he packed him up and sold him off in the middle of the night. On their wedding night, Gu Xinxin lowered his damp eyes and avoided Qi Ye's gaze. "When the agreement expires, I'll leave. I won't pester you." The expected humiliation and torment never came. Instead, the man gently brushed the corner of his eye. "Are you afraid of me?" Gu Xinxin was drawn into a warm embrace. The man held him tightly and said in a low voice, "Don't be afraid. I'm not that good-for-nothing." - Lately, the upper circles had been eagerly gossiping: That pretty Gu boy had just escaped the tiger's jaws, only to fall into the wolf's den. People were waiting to watch him get used and discarded by both of the Qi family's young masters. But what they saw left them dumbfounded: They didn't see the boy suffer. Instead, they saw Second Young Master Qi holding him and gently coaxing him. "Baby, did your hand hurt when you hit me?" Everyone: Has Second Young Master gone crazy, or am I seeing things? - At first, Gu Xinxin thought Qi Ye would make his life miserable. Unexpectedly, after marrying Qi Ye, he never had to suffer another grievance. He even became the carefree young master he'd once been. At first, Gu Xinxin thought Qi Ye just needed a pretty spouse to show off. Later, he thought Qi Ye had developed genuine feelings for him over time. Until one day, he accidentally entered the basement of their home and found a diary there. Beneath the striking handwriting that seemed strangely familiar lay a secret no one had ever noticed. That secret held a Gu Xinxin who seemed impossibly out of reach. The name signed at the end belonged to Qi Ye, ten years ago. Please add I Just Want to Be a Foolish Beauty to your favorites Rong Zhiyu was the top green-tea, unattainable-moonlight male supporting character in the Transmigrate-Into-a-Book Bureau's censored-fiction division. After completing ninety thousand missions perfectly, the Bureau granted him a long vacation. He still had to spend the vacation inside a story, though, so the System asked him its usual questions before departure. System: Which division would you like to visit, Host? Rong Zhiyu: Jinjiang Literature City, thank you. System: This division may not have any sex. Are you sure? Rong Zhiyu: Yes, thank you. System: All right. What kind of character would you like to play, Host? You can only choose once. Rong Zhiyu looked through the division's information and lazily replied, "I'll be a foolish beauty, thank you." System: This character type is overused and may not earn the world's favor. Are you sure? Rong Zhiyu: Yes, thank you. System: Your vacation begins now. Your destination is The Doomsday Hunt. 3, 2, 1... Transport! Rong Zhiyu: ? Wait? What? Aah! - Rong Zhiyu had diligently worked ninety thousand times in censored novels. Since he was a single-gender character, he could only play all kinds of doomed moonlight characters. His day-to-day work was either making the protagonist uke jealous so he and the protagonist seme would have a wild night together, or tripping them up so the protagonist uke would end up having a wild night with the protagonist seme by mistake. In short, he had to find ways to get the seme and uke to have a wild night together. Rong Zhiyu: I've had enough! I'm going to a wholesome novel and taking it easy. But why the hell did the System drop him into a male-oriented infinite survival story?! Rong Zhiyu, chased and cornered by all kinds of monsters in The Doomsday Hunt, later wondered: So much for no sex, huh? Theme: Hard work pays off