Still Waters Run Deep: Reborn

Chu Yunyou, the bottom, x Qiao Wang, the top. Childhood friends, happy ending. Blurb from the bottom's perspective: Chu Yunyou had an odd childhood friend named Qiao Wang. They didn't get along, and Qiao Wang always got on his nerves. Ever since they were kids, Chu Yunyou had thought Qiao Wang was strange. He was ridiculously good at everything, as if he had cheat codes, and he protected Chu Yunyou without expecting anything in return. Then he'd stubbornly insist, “I'm a self-interested person. I do all this because I stand to gain something...” Before he could finish, Chu Yunyou kissed Qiao Wang. Then he asked Qiao Wang, who had gone quiet and turned bright red, “Is this what you wanted in return? Was it enough?” Blurb from the top's perspective: Before he was reborn, Qiao Wang spent his whole life unable to understand why he'd fallen in love with Chu Yunyou. It made no sense. They were complete opposites. Qiao Wang was self-interested, stingy, disciplined, and meticulous. Chu Yunyou was an optimist, careless, easygoing, and all about living in the moment. Yet for the rest of his life, Qiao Wang's soul remained trapped in the summer when he was eighteen, the summer he and Chu Yunyou had been in love. When he was first reborn, he thought that he would shield Chu Yunyou from every storm that could break him. Chu Yunyou only had to live a good life. He could go on being the pampered, carefree young master of a wealthy family. It didn't matter if Chu Yunyou didn't love him. Later... whenever Chu Yunyou so much as glanced at someone else, Qiao Wang felt like he was going insane. Coming soon: *Keeping My Beautiful Childhood Friend for Myself*, another childhood-friends story. Blurb one: Xia Mang has a secret: he's intersex. His parents despise him, and he lives back in his hometown with his disabled grandmother, the two of them relying on each other. When he was seven, he met Yu Chengfeng, a wealthy young master who was nine. From then on, Xia Mang was no longer a filthy child with no one to care for him. Xia Mang sees Yu Chengfeng as the god who saved him. He'd rather die than have Yu Chengfeng hate him, so he vows to keep the fact that he's intersex a secret for the rest of his life. But when he's sixteen, Yu Chengfeng finds out anyway. Blurb two: Yu Chengfeng really doesn't understand why nobody wanted Xia Mang. To him, Xia Mang is the cutest, prettiest, sweetest boy in the world, and he adores him. When Yu Chengfeng tells Xia Mang that he'll make sure he can go to high school, Xia Mang cries and says he doesn't know how to repay him. He also says he'll do anything for him. Looking at Xia Mang's beautiful, delicate face, Yu Chengfeng feels his heart pounding. He swallows and thinks: ...Will you really do anything? [Top: the kind-hearted, sunny, nouveau riche family's simple-minded son x Bottom: a poor country boy, pretty and insecure, who is intersex] Theme: Don't lie to yourself about what you feel