My Terminal Illness Made Me a Lot More Cheerful

[Coming next: “Why Are There So Many Ailments!” and “Why Is the Campus Hunk Always Threatening Divorce?” Please add them to your reading list!] After learning that he has a terminal illness and only six months to live, Cheng Yuan thinks it over and decides to stop treatment. He immediately hands in his resignation to his awful company; demands that his deadbeat friend repay his debts; and cuts off the financial support he’s been giving his freeloading beneficiary... Everyone is stunned when Cheng Yuan stops putting up with them and suddenly goes off the rails, looking ready to run them all over. No one dares push him around anymore. Cheng Yuan: Turns out I feel much better now that I’ve lost all my manners ^_^ Maybe he’d spent too much of his life holding everything in. Now that he’s about to die, Cheng Yuan decides to go completely wild. He returns to his scumbag father’s home to make their lives miserable, and his half-brother deliberately tries to provoke him, saying, “If you like it, big brother, you can have it all.” Later, Cheng Yuan discovers that his half-brother has spent years pining after someone he can never have: Xu Shixuan, a heaven-blessed prodigy admired and feared by everyone, yet so aloof that no one can get close to him. But Cheng Yuan ends up in bed with Xu Shixuan without even trying. When his half-brother finds out, he completely loses it, his face twisted with rage as he spews venom. Cheng Yuan beats him up on the spot. Before long, someone comes storming over to settle the score. Cheng Yuan calls Xu Shixuan without a second thought. “I miss you.” There’s a brief pause on the other end, then Xu Shixuan replies with an amused laugh, “Wait for me.” Everyone turns pale and flees in a panic. After that, Cheng Yuan gets even more brazen. The rich brats can only swallow their anger, even when he gives them hell, because Xu Shixuan is backing him. At last, his half-brother manages to record Cheng Yuan saying he’s only using Xu Shixuan and just playing around with him, and sneers that his good days are over! Cheng Yuan: Oh, I’m almost dead anyway. Couldn’t care less. But... why is he still alive after more than six months? After another checkup, the doctor tells him he’s just a little run-down and should take it easy. Take it easy, not take heart. #He thought he was dying, so he went wild and offended everyone. What now that he suddenly won’t die? Help!# #Including his powerful, bad-tempered boyfriend!# And after the things he said, Xu Shixuan definitely won’t let him off. Cheng Yuan has no choice but to flee in the middle of the night. To his surprise, Xu Shixuan finds him in less than three days. Looking at the man before him, who seems like a god of slaughter, Cheng Yuan feels miserable and suddenly regrets everything. What he doesn’t know is that when his half-brother played the recording for Xu Shixuan, Xu Shixuan hadn’t even raised an eyebrow. “Is that so? You used me? I’d be delighted. That’s none of your business.” A bottom with a beautiful mental state, who’s ready to die at any moment × a top with an equally beautiful mental state, who bites anyone he comes across One and only, forever Please add my next books to your reading list. Thank you! ★“Why Are There So Many Ailments!” blurb: Yu Xian transmigrates into a book. The good news: He’s transmigrated into the body of a domineering CEO, and he’s rich. Super rich!! The bad news: He also has most of the illnesses that come with being a domineering CEO: insomnia, headaches, loss of appetite... and the list keeps growing. Oh, and he has another CEO essential: a spouse from an arranged marriage. But his husband is nowhere to be found, so he can ignore that for now. Fortunately, along with all his ailments, he’s also been given a set of remedies exclusive to domineering CEOs. He meets a cool, fragile sleeping-pill spirit who makes him fall asleep the moment he gets close; a rough, rakish ibuprofen spirit who clears his head the moment he gets close; and a flirtatious, uninhibited rice-porridge spirit who gives him an appetite the moment he gets close! There’s just one little problem: the sleeping pill, the ibuprofen, and the rice porridge aren’t the same person... At first, Yu Xian manages to harden his heart and sneak around behind his husband’s back, relying on them to ease his ailments. But as his ailments multiply, more spirits appear one after another: a quiet, taciturn corrective-lens spirit who treats color blindness; a stern, ascetic sertraline spirit who treats OCD; a haughty, arrogant ebastine spirit who treats allergies, and so on. There are too many of them for one person to handle. It’s starting to wear him out. Then he starts showing symptoms of face blindness. He gives the sleeping pill’s present to the ibuprofen; mistakes the rice porridge for the corrective lenses while out on the street; and calls the ebastine by name right in front of the sertraline! At first Yu Xian doesn’t realize anything is wrong, until all his remedies gather at the same banquet... Yu Xian and the spirits stare at one another, each wearing the stunned expression of someone who’s just discovered they’re dating a playboy. But what truly makes his heart race is that his husband, Fu Xuechi, is there too! Just last night, Yu Xian had suddenly developed skin hunger and clung stubbornly to Fu Xuechi, calling him “big brother” over and over. Things got extremely intimate. Now Fu Xuechi lazily surveys the people behind Yu Xian, then grabs him by the back of the collar. His languid expression vanishes. “So I’m not the only ‘big brother’ you have?” Yu Xian: SOS! Somebody help! ★★“Why Is the Campus Hunk Always Threatening Divorce?” blurb: "Gentle little angel × short-tempered man-child" In the second semester of his freshman year, Wen Yu, an architecture student, is assigned to move into Room 505 in the law department’s dorm. Two of his new roommates are very friendly. The third one, Jiang Xunyan, the campus hunk of A University, is another story. The moment he sees Wen Yu, he frowns and scowls, looking completely ill at ease. Wen Yu has no problem with him. When he brings breakfast for his roommates, he brings a portion for Jiang Xunyan too. Jiang Xunyan furrows his brow and scoffs. “You don’t have to go out of your way.” As he says it, he sends Wen Yu a message: “We’re getting divorced in a year anyway.” Wen Yu acknowledges the message and leaves Jiang Xunyan out the next time. But when Jiang Xunyan sees that everyone else got breakfast and he didn’t, he gets upset. “Are you excluding me?!” At the same time, he jabs at the chat box with his finger: “Divorce!!!” Wen Yu, ever easygoing, says nothing. He decides not to do anything special in front of Jiang Xunyan anymore, or maybe he should figure out a way to move out. Then, by accident, Jiang Xunyan’s student information form is leaked on the campus forum. His marital status is clearly marked: Married. Jiang Xunyan has plenty of admirers, and the forum explodes overnight. When Wen Yu hears about it, he also receives a message from Jiang Xunyan: “Don’t you dare expose me! If you do, we’re getting divorced!!” Wen Yu and Jiang Xunyan seem to have a perfectly ordinary relationship, so no one suspects him. When asked, he simply plays dumb with a gentle smile. “I don’t know anything about it.” But Wen Yu thinks about what Jiang Xunyan said. If he really does get exposed, will they get divorced? ...Never mind. It’d be a little too conspicuous. - So Wen Yu waits and waits until a year has finally passed. But Jiang Xunyan never says a word about getting divorced. After thinking it over, Wen Yu asks him directly, “When are we going to get divorced?” Jiang Xunyan, who thinks the two of them are already deeply in love and blissfully happy, feels as if he’s been struck by lightning. Just last night, Wen Yu told him how good he was and how great it felt! Jiang Xunyan nearly jumps out of his skin. “You seduced me and now you’re dumping me? You used me and now you’re throwing me away?!” Wen Yu looks puzzled. “But that was just a marital obligation. What does that have to do with getting divorced?” Jiang Xunyan clutches his chest, nearly passing out. A nontraditional pursuit of a spouse, a setting where same-sex marriage is legal, sweet everyday life after an arranged marriage Theme: Have the courage to be yourself