Yu Nong is thirty and runs a quiet bar. He has fallen for one of its regulars.
The regular is Chu Ran, a college student with delicate, fair features who doesn't talk much. He comes in, orders a drink, and settles quietly at the bar to sip it.
Yu Nong's friend urges him to confess. The thought has already gone around and around in Yu Nong's mind eight hundred times, but he can't bring himself to say it. It's not because he's a coward. Chu Ran wears a ring on his ring finger. Yu Nong asked around, and it was a gift from his boyfriend.
One rainy day, Yu Nong was waiting for someone under the covered walkway when Chu Ran passed by with an umbrella and smiled as he waved.
Yu Nong had too much to drink. In a sudden rush of courage, he darted under Chu Ran's umbrella. The words he'd rehearsed countless times hovered on his lips: Could you consider breaking up with your boyfriend?
But when he met Chu Ran's innocent smile, Yu Nong changed his mind. "Let me buy you some milk tea."
Chu Ran had never liked alcohol, actually. He liked sweet things.
Dual POV, the pursuer becomes the pursued
HE
A quick recommendation for my new ongoing novel, Bamboo Horse and Fierce Dog
Cool and aloof VS fierce dog
Xia Chiyu has decided to leave Lin Mushen, the man who was once his entire world.
They grew up and lived together. Only belatedly did Xia Chiyu realize that Lin Mushen might love him, but would never understand him or know what kind of life he truly wanted.
Xia Chiyu moves to a quiet countryside village, opens a secondhand bookstore, and continues writing.
He plans to spend the rest of his life living quietly by himself, but never expects a reckless guy to suddenly barge into his life.
Jiang Li is twenty-one, straight, and quite handsome. When he first learns that Xia Chiyu is gay, he is surprised, wary, and uncomfortable. Gradually, though, he realizes he was overthinking it and being too full of himself.
One winter afternoon, as they sit chatting, Jiang Li suddenly finds himself dazed by the man's smile.
He realizes that although Xia Chiyu usually seems gentle, his eyes and brows are always filled with loneliness.
The trouble is, that loneliness only draws Jiang Li in more.
After realizing how he feels, Jiang Li bravely stammers out a confession, only to be rejected.
The young are fearless. He keeps declaring his love.
"I don't mind being your backup. I just don't want to be your friend."
"I don't care that there's someone in your heart. It's fine if you love him most. Just love me second-most."
"Hey, could you look at me?"
Xia Chiyu has to admit that he's grown somewhat accustomed to Jiang Li's company. The young man's passionate affection is especially moving in this cold, quiet winter.
Just as Xia Chiyu begins to waver, the bookstore door swings open. The sound of a suitcase rolling drowns out the footsteps, and Lin Mushen walks in, his expression cool as he shrugs off the snow and wind.
He stops, lights a cigarette, looks at the two of them, and says coolly, "Quite a lively scene."
But the lively days are still ahead. Lin Mushen moves into the bookstore too, and from then on, the two men make a daily habit of competing for Xia Chiyu's affection.
Xia Chiyu: I want to leave. I want to move.
P.S. The three of them are not going to live together as a couple. Xia Chiyu will choose only one.
Theme: In the face of love, everything else is a paper tiger.
Scratching my head, to be honest, I didn't see the need for Shou to be Li's boyfriend after watching it. He said that because he wanted to keep the ring that Li gave to Bai Yueguang, he simply claimed that he was her boyfriend. Is it possible to just not wear a special place like the ring finger? And why did Li give the ring to Shou for safekeeping? Because Shou looks similar to Bai Yueguang, why should I put my mind to it? Since this part is from a first-person perspective, Shou didn't think about it at all. And while saying that Shou and Li are only boyfriends in name, it's a bit strange that Shou always talks about her boyfriend when it comes to others. If it's to block a romantic relationship, his closed personality won't care about the romantic relationship at all, right? I can understand that Shou is very special to him because he has been through everything together with Li and is still a lifesaver. Moreover, Li's character and experience will not make Shou feel psychological pressure, so he regards him as a spiritual haven. (But actually I still don't quite understand the point of working hard so that he can look for Bai Yueguang everywhere. Maybe it's because he didn't write it deeply, so he should just think of it as repaying his life-saver)
Can you write a novel about Li Xu? It's so hard to let go.
Thank you for the warmth of this story. Those who still strive to love life after experiencing various hardships in life are warriors. Thank you to the author for allowing these two warriors to meet and fall in love with each other 💪
Some people are really not suitable to be parents
It's too much. He said in front of his son that he was not his son, right?
Ah, I turned another page and it turned out that Shou's father was cheating on me... I, a pure spectator like me, can tell something is wrong at a glance just by looking at my age. How come Shou has never thought about this in so many years?
No, he was abducted at the age of 7, and his parents divorced and remarried. How could this younger brother be only five years younger?
Emmmmm, okay, it's a little worse than what I said before, mainly because I feel like I didn't particularly like attacking until now? At least He Gong's feelings for him are not equal (well, after being rescued from the traffickers, didn't he see a psychiatrist at all? It's obvious that his parents didn't seem to care about him)
As for the ex-boyfriend, it is still not explained clearly throughout the whole article and even now from the perspective of the subject. And if I switch to the perspective of the recipient, I still can't understand that while he likes Gong and knows that Gong likes me, he doesn't shy away from his ex-boyfriend's affairs, wantonly consumes this relationship and feels sorry for himself in his own world... I thought it was due to Gong's perspective, but it turned out to be completely tiring. Every time the relationship advances, Gong takes the initiative, and what keeps me watching is seeing the two of them speak clearly.
There are 1. Speechless... A character that is very stretched and tired.