I Married My Best Friend

Shi Yue had spent years drifting from place to place. Now, at his family's urging, he wanted to settle down and find someone to marry.

Shi Yue was never short of company, but when it came to marriage, he hesitated. His longtime friend Ji Huai suddenly approached him. The company needed it, and Ji Huai happened to need a marriage too.

Shi Yue had always hated trouble. He and Ji Huai had grown up together and knew each other inside out. Most importantly, Ji Huai spoke little and caused even less trouble.

So Shi Yue happily agreed. After they married, he accidentally discovered that Ji Huai had been in love with him for years. Their marriage wasn't a matter of settling or a lucky coincidence: it had been planned all along.

When Shi Yue wanted to divorce Ji Huai, he realized for the first time that this man's tears burned terribly. It turned out he had misjudged him all these years: Ji Huai was the biggest source of trouble after all.

Bottom's perspective: After all those years by Shi Yue's side, watching him change partners one after another, Ji Huai understood that Shi Yue was a restless bird who would never stop for anyone.

Anyone who confessed their love to him was immediately discarded. So Ji Huai kept the love letter in his hands clenched for ten years, never daring to send it. Then, when he finally caught his chance, he signed the marriage certificate without hesitation.

At that moment, Ji Huai felt that, at last, fortune had favored him.

Shi Yue is lithromantic. When someone falls for him, he feels repulsed and then breaks things off.

Shi Yue assumed Ji Huai was asexual and wouldn't fall for anyone. Little did he know that, since their school days, Ji Huai had been imitating his handwriting, learning to cook the dishes he liked, and shaping himself around Shi Yue's preferences. When Ji Huai loved someone, he was ready to give them his whole heart.

There are many people in the universe who love you, but I'm certain I'm the one who loves you most. So promise me you'll let me be your captive. I will offer you my heart, my life, my blood, and my tears, for you to take as you please.

The bottom pursues the top. He loves him deeply but still doesn't dare let him know. Same-sex marriage is legal in this setting.

All those coincidences you believed in were the result of my careful planning, schemed out long ago.

[Seeking Bookmarks for My Upcoming Novel] As the young master of the Jiang Group, Jiang Weigu should have been doted on. But he was slow-witted from childhood, and in his parents' eyes, he could never measure up to his all-around talented older brother, Jiang Heng.

Even their names were different: Jiang Heng was as beautiful as jade, while Jiang Weigu was named for being caught in a dilemma, born at a difficult juncture.

His parents sighed at him from the time he was little. "If only you were half as capable as your brother. You should learn from him."

But when Jiang Weigu followed Jiang Heng around, his brother shoved him into the river. "I hate useless tagalongs most of all. Don't you have anything of your own to do?"

Jiang Weigu knew he wasn't as good as his brother and didn't want to cause trouble for his family, so he thought he should leave home as soon as possible.

His childhood friend Song Baiyu had opened an entertainment company and managed to find him a job: joining a boy band as its nanny-like leader. "You should know, no one else would help you like this."

So Jiang Weigu worked diligently, believing that if he was paid even a penny, he should do his best. He cleaned up after Lin Youlu, the boy band's popular member, and took care of every detail of his daily life. It was as if he hadn't joined the band to debut, but to be the youngest member's nanny.

Then Lin Youlu, whom he'd raised himself, said behind his back, "Jiang Weigu is so annoying. He's always managing me, like he thinks he has some claim on me."

His hand paused as he brought over the soup. He decided that whoever wanted to play nanny could do it. He was throwing in the towel. He wouldn't watch everyone else's expressions anymore; he'd live however he wanted.

But after he came into his own, the youngest member looked at him with red-rimmed eyes. "I said that on purpose so they'd hear it. I was afraid they'd realize how good you are."

His childhood friend was full of regret. "I'm the one who can't live without you."

Even his brother, who had always looked down on him, finally gave him a little approval. "Now that's more like it."

But what did any of that have to do with him? He still had albums to release, roles to act in, and awards to win. He couldn't care less about their belated regrets.

Even someone everyone dislikes can work hard and find a new world of their own.

The love interest is the youngest member. The top starts out a people-pleaser and later lives freely; the bottom starts out arrogant and stubborn, then becomes humble and devoted.

Theme: Work hard and strive forward