Explosive Hormones

Ting Yin came from a good family and did well in school. In high school, he started dating a boy from a family that had been close to his for generations. After graduation, the two went abroad to study together.

His boyfriend went to bars and parties. He never cheated, but he did practically everything else that counted as cheating.

Because of their families' relationship, Ting Yin didn't break up with him.

Then snow fell in Berlin, and Ting Yin once again came across his boyfriend, dead drunk. He closed the door and planned to stay at a hotel, like he always did.

By chance, the neighbor across the hall opened his door.

Black hair, dark eyes, water still dripping from his hair.

Bare-chested in the middle of winter, wearing nothing but a pair of gray sweatpants. Cocky and wild.

He asked, "Want some water?"

Ting Yin thought of earlier that day at the library. He'd asked his boyfriend to get him some water, but his boyfriend had flirted with someone along the way and forgotten he needed to take his medicine.

Someone passing by had happened to leave a bottle of mineral water beside him.

Want some water?

Want to sleep with me?

Ting Yin said nothing and stepped into his neighbor's home.

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During the Christmas holiday, Lan Yuan went to Ting Yin's house as a guest.

Ting Yin's family was caught up in the excitement of reuniting with an old friend. Lan Yuan made an excuse that he couldn't find the bathroom and asked Ting Yin to show him the way.

Ting Yin led Lan Yuan there, never expecting that halfway along, Lan Yuan would deftly pull him into his own bedroom.

With the cold wall at his back, Ting Yin tilted his head up as Lan Yuan gazed at him, held him, and kissed him.

Until someone called for them from outside.

"...He's here." Ting Yin lowered his eyes, his lashes wet. His hand tightened slowly around the doorknob, as if trying to break through some inner restraint. His voice was clear, if a little hoarse, as he asked, "Do you want him to know?"

*New love interest; the love interest has had a crush on him for a long time.

*"Drink my water" is code for "sleep with me."

*The recipient has never been intimate with his ex-boyfriend and has a strong aversion to sexual contact with anyone else.

*A genius F1 powertrain dynamics designer who is the recipient, paired with a wild, outwardly warm but inwardly cold second-generation official as the pursuer.

Theme: Dare to own what you do.