Master

[I want to rewrite this novel, so please check the pinned comment.]

Jin Zhaoze was a spy. Every mission he undertook at the Holy Court revolved around one man.

A proud and aloof beta, cold and heartless to the point of cruelty.

Jin Zhaoze changed his appearance several times and watched him almost around the clock. Naturally, he also discovered a side of the man no one else knew.

He was fragile and gentle. As he reached out to caress the most perfect experimental subject, it was as if a sacred light shone around him.

"Good boy."

Everything seemed to spiral out of control in an unknown direction. Jin Zhaoze was disconcerted to realize that he was actually longing for those hands to touch him.

*

Later, the mission was upgraded. Surveillance became a cleanup operation, but Jin Zhaoze couldn't bring himself to act.

For a spy, that was a fatal mistake. For the first time, he wanted to replace the superior who gave the orders.

So Jin Zhaoze began working backward through the clues. Only when he opened that door and saw the familiar face behind the codename Master did he finally understand.

This was never a story about saving a lamb. From the very beginning, he had been the prey, walking straight into the trap the viper had designed just for him.

- "Use me as you wish: my body, my heart, my soul. I ask only that you don't abandon me."

- I am far more loyal than you could ever imagine.

*The blurb is from the gong's perspective; the story is from the shou's perspective.

*1m0s.

*An alternate-world setting. I'm practicing writing plot, so the buildup is long.

[Upcoming] When a Player Meets a Straight Guy

Xie Yi, a famous player at X University, has a WeChat contact list packed from A to Z with no empty spaces.

Give him a few keywords and his friends can match him with just the right person.

He has too many examples, so it's hard not to find a match.

But he's flirted with countless people without getting involved with any of them. He likes to flirt, not sleep with them, and loves watching them catch feelings over their ambiguous relationship.

Even so, people keep clamoring to become fish in his pond, just for the chance to exchange a few words with him now and then.

Then one day, he received a friend request: I hear you're good at keeping fish? What a coincidence, so am I. I'd like to test my skills against yours.

Xie Yi sneered: What a cheap pickup line.

Yet his fingers were quick to accept the request and type: How do you want to compete?

The other person sent him an address: XXX Aquaculture Farm.

Xie Yi: ?

Xie Yi took the bus for two hours, then walked for half an hour under the blazing 30-degree sun to get there.

He looked up at the stainless-steel sign above him and thought, This player is really in a league of his own. He sure knows how to bring out my competitive side.

Then he looked down and saw a handsome man in a straw hat, smiling like a dope.

"Over here we have lucky koi, over there are channel catfish, and there's sea cucumber in the pond farther away."

Shen Xinyue introduced them as they walked. "They're all hard to raise, but I've done a pretty good job with them."

Then he turned to Xie Yi. "Show me the fish you're raising."

Xie Yi: ...

Xie Yi turned and left with the more than three thousand electronic fish on his phone.

**

Later, Shen Xinyue clung to Xie Yi and wailed, "Can you stop raising other people and just raise me?"

Xie Yi raised an eyebrow. "Want to live off me?"

Shen Xinyue: "No, I want to be your fish."

Xie Yi: ...

You idiot. If you can't confess, just shut your damn mouth!

He's straight, then he falls for a man.

Pure-hearted straight gong x short-tempered beauty shou

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