A Boyfriend Who Plays Dead Is No Good [Livestream]

Yiqi Xi, born in the Year of the Peony, 22 years ago, had barely been out of college for a year when his parents started pressuring him to get married...

Dad: Why not go to grad school?

Mom: Why not get married and study for a graduate degree?

Mom and Dad: Or you could find someone to date. Just stop making us worry about you every day.

Yiqi Xi: Actually, I do have someone... Would you believe me?

Mom and Dad: As if!

The young man glanced at the man in black hanging around his neck and could only let out a helpless sigh.

Yiqi Xi, muttering to himself: He really is a ghost...

The lazy young man Yiqi Xi didn’t want to get married or go to grad school.

But he didn’t dare tell his family that his dangerous job was livestreaming outdoor ghost hunts...

To stop his family from pestering him about marriage, Yiqi Xi had no choice but to use his graduation trip as an opportunity to dig up his good buddy and make him take the fall...

“Buddy! Mind if I borrow your skeleton?”

---Late at night---

After evading the gravedigger, Yiqi Xi headed straight to his friend’s grave with a shovel over his shoulder.

“Feng Yu... I came to see you.”

“You won’t go back on what you promised me, right...?”

The man had always liked joking around with the boy when he was alive.

“Don’t you dare die, hear me? Trouble-makers live for a thousand years. Someone else is the one who’s supposed to die!”

“If you kick the bucket, I’ll dig up your grave...”

“Who told you to never pay me back?”

“Then I’ll put all the IOUs in the grave. You can dig them out when you come.”

“Then I won’t just dig up your IOUs. I’ll drag your bones out and pretend you’re my girlfriend!”

The boy was afraid Feng Yu might really die, so he always used those few thousand yuan to keep the man dangling.

But five years ago, Feng Yu suddenly stopped replying to his messages.

Looking at the mysterious location the other man had sent him last...

Yiqi Xi still couldn’t help going up the mountain.

Outside the grave: As the shovel dug deeper and deeper, the boy finally pried apart the grave’s hardened soil.

Inside the grave: Feng Yu’s withered arms were crossed over his chest. As the coffin shook, the man’s pale finger bones moved slightly...

Ever since he brought that pile of bones home, Yiqi Xi’s family stopped pressuring him to get married. After all, he’d have to get divorced down below... They wouldn’t dare upset their kid!

But after only a couple of peaceful days, the boy started to feel someone lying in his arms whenever he slept...

P.S. This story was inspired by a conversation I had with a friend who has a terminal illness.

I really am keeping him dangling with a few thousand yuan. I don’t want him to leave.

But life is unpredictable... I still couldn’t help starting this novel.

I hope that if something really happens to him,

he can still have another life and transmigrate into a book.

The bottom’s personality is based on my own.

The top is written based on him.

I hesitated for a long time, but in the end I decided to write danmei.

[I’m not a misogynist. I just want to write danmei.]

[I told my friend, if you die, you’ll have to enter my book and become gay.]

[So now he probably doesn’t want to die anymore. Doge.JPG]

[Though I may be in a bit of danger... QAQ]

[The blurb was screenshotted on June 27, 2023.]

Theme: Kill everyone, and jinx my friend into getting better!