Please support my upcoming story, Brother, Is This Your Groveling Arc? The blurb is at the end!
In the summer, amid the cicadas' song, Gu Cheng falls for his childhood friend, Zhou Zhenyuan.
Gu Cheng knows this is a secret love he can never tell anyone about, one that begins in his heart and ends at his lips.
Because Zhou Zhenyuan likes a girl.
He watches Zhou bring that girl flowers and water, and sees him grow sad and happy because of her.
He thought he had learned to stay calm, even to offer Zhou a few pointers.
He thought his feelings were buried in a crack in a rock under the summer sun, where no one could find them.
He thought he would bury his secret in the sound of summer cicadas, live a healthy life to fulfill his parents' wishes, then get married and have children.
Until one day, he tentatively tells his mother, "Mom, there's someone I like."
His mother smiles. "Really? Then invite her over for dinner."
He chokes back a sob. "But he's a boy."
His mother pauses, then tells him softly, "Boys need to eat, too."
At that moment, the cicadas' song goes on without end, like the sea.
But the boy he likes won't come over.
He's not attracted to boys. He just loves him.
Slow-burn boy (shou) x sunny boy (gong) (as adults: teacher x convenience-store owner)
--Inspired by something I saw online. The conversation with the mother comes from an online comment.
A short story, with a brief childhood section. The timeline continues into their adulthood.
Blurb for Brother, Is This Your Groveling Arc?:
Zhan He loves Chen Fangchi. He loves him so, so much, enough to give him everything.
He loves him so much that even knowing Chen Fangchi wouldn't spare him a glance, he still flies into the flames like a moth and burns himself.
He loves him so much that...
Even after going through hell, he drinks it in like sweet spring water, happy to endure it.
But Chen Fangchi still drove him away in the cruelest way possible.
In Chen Fangchi's eyes, Zhan He's love was worth less than the trash in a garbage can.
Chen Fangchi hates Zhan He so much he wants to tear him limb from limb and feed him to the dogs.
But they've long since become inseparable.
Only after driving Zhan He away does he find himself repeating his name in the dead of night, like ashes that refuse to die: "Zhan He... Zhan He..."
Without Zhan He, he's nothing.
Chen Fangchi hates Zhan He with all his heart, and loves him even more.
Beneath the blue sky, a white crane spreads its wings and soars away, searching for the wetland it longs to call home.
Zhan He (shou) x Chen Fangchi (gong)
Theme: Be brave enough to love!
The writing is very beautiful, the teacher is amazing, and the delicate and gentle words express the young man's thoughts just right. . . I think the teacher must have had someone he liked very much! Their stories are not finished, and we cannot decide the ending for them. All we can do is listen to the chirping of cicadas in midsummer, the heartbeat of young people, and watch the sunset in the small town, the big trees, and the waves of wheat in the golden fields. . Gentle and lively summer
I changed my account and didn't want to write below, so I just left a comment on the first one. The author thinks that several years have passed. I remember that when I finished reading this book a year or two ago, you were saving the full text. Why is it that a year later, the full text is still being saved [Qingxin]
The author writes so delicately! Especially the childhood period in the countryside, I look forward to the author's other works!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! The author is very good at writing!
I like it so much, I want to watch them talk 😭
Of course there are people!!! Good looking der~ Come on!!!
Can you write a side story? Good looking!!
Come on, come on, come on!
Congratulations (*^_^*)