The One I Secretly Love Is Too Possessive

My ongoing novel next door, Reborn Honest Man Gets Tricked Again and Again: a beautiful, pretending-to-be-blind bottom who flirts without realizing it x a Daddy top whose old house is suddenly ablaze, turning the tables with counter-tricks. Please, please add it to your collection QAQ

Ji Qingbai had a crush on his high school deskmate, Fu Jian-ci. He had never told anyone this secret.

On the first day he received his internship paycheck, he finally worked up the courage to confess to Fu Jian-ci. But just before he could, he borrowed Fu Jian-ci's cloud drive and found several gigabytes of short videos of men and women in love in a folder labeled "Study Materials."

In the end, Ji Qingbai threw the birthday present he had so carefully prepared into the trash. He figured he couldn't turn a straight man gay.

Later, Fu Jian-ci left the country without a word, leaving Ji Qingbai all alone.

When they met again, Ji Qingbai had no intention of getting involved with Fu Jian-ci ever again. But by the time he realized what was happening, Fu Jian-ci had already moved into his home.

Later still, Ji Qingbai decided to find someone to marry. That was when the man, usually so flamboyant and full of himself, suddenly seemed like a different person, becoming brooding and frightening. He even tricked Ji Qingbai into going somewhere in the middle of nowhere, then gripped his waist and threatened him:

"Ji Qingbai, don't even think about marrying someone else."

Reading guide:

1) A CEO who pretends to be an honest man and plays the victim in front of his crush x a super kind doctor who responds to gentleness, not force.

2) The short videos aren't the top's. The top is a CEO. The bottom is a neurosurgeon. Some things may not be entirely logical because the plot requires them; if anything is really unreasonable, please point it out gently.

3) Mutual pining + reunion after a long separation + mutual salvation. Both are sexually inexperienced. Happy ending. A bittersweet romance.

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Blurb for the ongoing novel next door:

Jiang Nan had been honest and straightforward his whole life, yet in the end he got nothing.

In college, a friend stabbed him in the back. After he started working, he was forced to take the blame for his boss.

After losing his job, he had just started a studio when he got into a car accident a few days later and became blind. Fortunately, a kind gentleman took him home, saving him from ending up on the street.

The kind gentleman wasn't well-off. He could only afford a semi-basement apartment and a secondhand electric scooter, but he still did his best to spoil Jiang Nan: getting him a prosthetic eye and taking him to piano lessons...

After being reborn, Jiang Nan decided to stop being so honest. He would make good money, trick the kind gentleman into falling for him, and then support him in return.

But who could have guessed that he'd be tricked again?

It turned out the supposedly kind gentleman wasn't poor at all. He came from a wealthy family.

The famous Jiang Nan, champion backpedaler, had no interest in climbing the social ladder and was just about to make his escape when his way was firmly blocked.

The gentleman asked him for a favor. Jiang Nan was about to refuse, but the other man said:

"Jiang Nan, aren't we friends? Aren't friends supposed to help each other?"

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If anyone is the most extraordinary person in Jiang and H Cities, it has to be Ye Qiaosheng.

In his youth, he started from nothing and founded the country's most successful transport platform. Later, his illegitimate-child status was exposed, and he inherited his biological father's Shengtai Group.

Countless powerful people wanted to befriend him, but he was naturally aloof and polite, preferred his own company, and never had strangers by his side.

However, this pattern was soon broken.

At a banquet, Ye Qiaosheng brought a companion and announced to everyone that he was his betrothed wife.

Even more astonishing, the other person wasn't some young master from a wealthy family, but a blind nobody who had come out of nowhere.

Just as everyone assumed their relationship wouldn't last, the two officially registered their marriage.

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After successively becoming the gentleman's dining companion, roommate, and "temporary wife," Jiang Nan decided it was time to bow out.

Who could have guessed that although the gentleman readily agreed, on the day of their farewell he turned off the lights, locked the door, and pinned Jiang Nan to the bed:

"Nannan, this time I need a wife."

"But haven't I already played the role of your wife?"

"It's different. This time, I want a wife whose name can appear next to mine on the same marriage certificate, who can inherit my estate, and who will be buried with me after we die."

"For how long?"

"For a lifetime."

Happy ending. Both are sexually inexperienced. Eight-year age gap. The bottom is reborn. (By sexually inexperienced, we mean neither the top nor the bottom has ever had intimate contact with anyone else beyond kissing.)

Theme: Even in desolation, someone will offer you a seed of hope