Do You Think We Count as Exes?

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# A deputy captain who thinks he’s hopelessly in love with someone who only sees him as a one-sided crush x a beautiful, tragic undercover agent returning with PTSD

# Strong x strong / Rekindled romance / Pure romance, not a crime investigation, with almost no cases solved

Liu Fengming, the new technical consultant at the branch.

Highly educated and handsome, with a serious smoking habit and a terrible temper. In one week on the job, he managed to offend everyone on the team.

The team grimaced at the long list of new rules: “Deputy Captain, who exactly is this guy?”

Liang Yuheng felt a headache coming on.

Who was Liu Fengming?

His police academy classmate. His college roommate.

And... the person he’d spent one passionate night with on a snowy, drunken evening ten years ago.

He’d run off after they slept together, then vanished for ten years.

He hadn’t wanted Liang Yuheng to take even a shred of responsibility,

and hadn’t stayed long enough to hear Liang Yuheng confess his feelings.

When they met again, Liu Fengming was as blunt and cold as ever, but now he was covered in scars.

They say one day as spouses earns a hundred days of affection. Liang Yuheng wanted to repay him, but Liu Fengming acted as if nothing had ever happened.

Until one day, Liang Yuheng wrapped a bandage around the wound on Liu Fengming’s wrist, covering two cigarette burns beside it as well.

Unable to hold back, Liang Yuheng asked, “So, are we exes or not?”

Liu Fengming stubbed out his cigarette in a soda can he was using as an ashtray, then looked up at him, utterly bewildered.

“No.”

Liang Yuheng’s heart sank, but then he heard him add:

“I’m the one who likes you.”

1. One-on-one pairing, both characters are sexually inexperienced, happy ending. A short, self-indulgent romance with no brain-teasing cases, just everyday love.

2. Mutual feelings and mutual pining, though the receiver doesn’t think he’s pining.

3. Mixed perspectives, with plenty of sections from the giver’s perspective as he uncovers the receiver’s past secrets. The receiver is listed as the lead because his story takes up more of the novel. The order of the leads only indicates their roles in the pairing, not how much screen time each gets.

4. The setting is entirely fictional and doesn’t reflect reality. The plot has inconsistencies, and the cases aren’t very logical, so please don’t overthink them. Everything serves the romance.

5. The receiver is addicted to smoking, but doesn’t litter cigarette butts.

6. Injuries and physical angst are my personal kink. I just really enjoy this sort of thing.

[Coming soon: No Need to Give Your Client CPR]

[Younger deaf wild-dog seme x older sickly producer uke]

Ji Weiyi, a famous producer and the film industry’s money god.

A brilliant young man, rich heir, and the pampered youngest child of the family.

The only catch is that he was born with a hole in his heart. After thirty years of patching it up, he’s still liable to die at any moment.

A fortune-teller said that turning thirty-two would be a major hurdle for him, and only meeting a noble benefactor could help him through it.

The year he turned thirty-two, Ji Weiyi returned to his hometown for a funeral and saw Zhang Yuan fishing in the river.

He called out, but Zhang Yuan couldn’t hear him. Half a hearing aid hung around his neck.

He suddenly turned around, his pupils pitch-black, like a wild dog.

Ji Weiyi’s heart skipped a beat at the sight of him. The arthouse film he was investing in happened to be missing a deaf male lead.

Ji Weiyi brought Zhang Yuan back to the capital and moved him into his home.

A thoughtful human padded coat had fallen from the sky. When Ji Weiyi had a headache, Zhang Yuan massaged him. When his stomach hurt, Zhang Yuan kept him warm. When he couldn’t sleep, Zhang Yuan stayed by his side.

When Ji Weiyi had a heart attack...

Ji Weiyi said, “Just call 120. You don’t need to give me CPR.”

Ji Weiyi always treated Zhang Yuan like a child. Children were easy to fool and prone to getting taken advantage of.

After going to a celebration banquet, Zhang Yuan came back and told him:

“They said when a producer and an actor live together, the producer is taking advantage of the actor.”

“If you need me to, I’m willing to do anything.”

Ji Weiyi laughed in exasperation. “What kind of nonsense are you thinking about at your age?”

Then one day, beads of sweat from Zhang Yuan’s nose dripped onto his face.

He called Zhang Yuan’s name, his voice broken and tuneless.

And in his daze, he couldn’t help thinking:

Raising a child comes with risks. Invest with care.

If I’d known this day would come, I should have taken advantage of him first!

Theme: The past cannot be changed, but the future is still ours to pursue.