We're Both Straight Men, Yet We're Bound to a Romance System

Author's Note:

This is a sweet little story. :)

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[Sunny, max-strength bottom x Cool, quiet, tsundere heartthrob top]

Zhu Wenci loves a dating sim called He's So Charming. In the game, you can customize your character's face, and his pale, handsome, long-legged guy was voted one of the three best-looking characters on the forums.

The game is really sweet, and he interacts with his darling every day.

But one day, it seems he gets bound to some of the game's features.

Even some of the game's storylines start playing out around his good friend Jiang Xuyan.

Jiang Xuyan is Zhu Wenci's good friend, classmate, and childhood sweetheart, someone he's known since they were little, little kids.

His childhood sweetheart is popular with everyone, gets better grades, has more fans, and attracts more romantic attention.

One day, Jiang Xuyan "starts dating someone." He stops walking to and from school with Zhu Wenci and keeps it a secret from him.

Zhu Wenci gets mad.

So much for brotherly love!

Then the dating System he carries around with him activates.

"Earth Dating System now bound."

"System features include, but are not limited to: rewinding, loading saves, traveling through storylines, and magical outfit changes."

"Target: Jiang Xuyan"

Zhu Wenci: Brilliant.

[Campus Arts and Culture Week]

Jiang Xuyan accidentally gets his costume dirty.

Zhu Wenci: Activate magical outfit change.

A gorgeous costume from the game instantly appears in the real world.

Zhu Wenci holds it up and helps Jiang Xuyan put it on. That day, they successfully put on their performance.

[Show Kindness to the Elderly]

Zhu Wenci just misses the last bus and chases after it, shouting, "System, rewind one minute."

The rewind goes wrong. It's not the right bus.

Zhu Wenci: Rewind another two minutes, to the previous one.

Still wrong. Keep rewinding. I've got plenty of points.

Jiang Xuyan, who has done tai chi with the old man for the nth time: ???

[Birthday Wish on the Ferris Wheel]

A boy's kiss lands on Zhu Wenci's lips. Pure white snow drifts outside the window in the winter night. Their figures lean close together, becoming a memory that will stay in their hearts forever.

After getting home, Zhu Wenci thinks: That's sweet. I'll load the save and experience it again.

That was cute. One more time.

Again.

One more time becomes a billion more times.

Jiang Xuyan that night: I've kissed him three hundred times. Do we have to keep going?

Zhu Wenci: He doesn't know I can rewind. Keep going.

Zhu Wenci thinks Jiang Xuyan doesn't know his secret.

Until one day, on a stormy summer night, Jiang Xuyan holds him tight and whispers fiercely in his ear:

"I fell for you of my own free will."

"Whether or not you have a System, I'll love you faithfully until the day I die."

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"This is time's generous gift to us."

"Even if we return to the past thousands upon thousands of times, I'll still bravely protect you."

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