Faking It as a Weeb

[Mutual Firsts] Lu Yao is a gloomy, aloof, handsome master's student in public, but in private, despite looking like he has nothing to do with anime, he cosplays, buys merch, and keeps up with every new series. People in the fandom call him Teacher Rabbit, a doujin artist who'll die if he doesn't draw smut. Aside from drawing doujin, Teacher Rabbit has just one hobby: he's a fan of the famous cosplayer Lang Si. While other people chase celebrities, he chases cosplayers. When he hears Lang Si is going live, he sneaks into the stream with a very guilty look, only to discover that Lang Si is cosplaying the protagonist from one of his own comics! As he frantically sends gifts, his ears turning red while his face stays expressionless, he thinks: Oh no. What should we name the children I have with Teacher Lang Si? Lu Yao keeps sending gifts in a daze until he takes the top spot on the leaderboard. Blushing, he prepares to enjoy the perks of being number one, but the next moment, the stunning man on screen suddenly puts on a pair of glasses and looks at him calmly through the camera. "Stop sending gifts. Have you finished your group project?" The man's voice is deep and refined. Beneath his half-rim glasses, his beautiful eyes sparkle with amusement, and his image gradually overlaps with that of the doctoral senior in Lu Yao's memories. Now he's really in trouble. Next novel coming soon: A Handbook for Raising the Moon [The bottom is congenitally deaf and cannot hear or speak. If anything in the story seems unrealistic, just treat it as the author's personal headcanon~] Before he turned eighteen, Zhen Mingyue's life had been smooth sailing. His family and friends treasured him like the moon itself. Outsiders always said that although the young master of the Zhen family had been born deaf and mute, he was more beautiful and refined than anyone else, and that he had brought the Zhen family good luck and blessings. Zhen Mingyue couldn't hear the world around him, but he still thought he was happy. That is, until his eighteenth birthday, when he learned through the housekeeper's gestures that he was a fake who had been raised by the Zhen family for eighteen years. The real young master of the Zhen family had been mistakenly taken by his birth mother and raised in an ordinary family for eighteen years. Public opinion raged, and news reports flooded in from every direction. Some said it was no wonder the moon had been born unable to speak: he was a counterfeit floating in the water. Others said that the eighteen years had been time stolen by Zhen Mingyue, and he had to give it back. So the real young master was brought home. His old friends left him, his former family drove him out, his birth mother rejected him, and the older brother who had once held him in the palm of his hand grew distant. The moon in the sky sank beneath the sea, forgotten by everyone, and even his tuition for the new semester became a problem. As he carried plates at a cafe, Zhen Mingyue thought that he must have done something terribly wrong to receive such a dreadful birthday present. It was so dreadful that when Li Ke came looking for him, he hadn't even had time to react. The older boy who used to follow his brother around and bully him had grown up. He was a whole head taller now, with mixed-race features that were more striking and handsome than most. Smiling, he said, "Hi, little moon. Long time no see." - On the tenth day after learning he was the fake young master, Zhen Mingyue was taken home by Li Ke. Everyone who heard about it waited to see him make a fool of himself. Who didn't know that the second young master of the Li family, just returned from Europe, was a spoiled rich kid through and through? One day, news broke that he'd bought a luxury yacht for a model; the next, that he'd spent the night with a male celebrity. He squandered the family fortune without a second thought. But he was handsome, and he had the money to back it up. The whole city of Linjiang would tremble at a word from him. If a man like that took Zhen Mingyue home, surely all that awaited him was being tossed aside once Li Ke grew bored. But as everyone waited, they never heard that Zhen Mingyue had been abandoned. Instead, they heard that the reckless rich kid treasured him beyond measure, snapping up priceless jewels at auctions as if money meant nothing, and showering him with luxury cars and mansions. Most importantly, the second young master of the Li family seemed to have genuinely mended his ways. Ever since bringing Zhen Mingyue home, not a single scandal had been reported about him. People refused to believe that a spoiled rich kid could really settle down, until one day someone saw the legendary young heir in a corner of a banquet hall, following the fake young master of the Zhen family and quietly pleading with him in sign language. "Baby, my darling, little moon, don't be mad, okay? I'll be gentler next time. When you're unhappy, my heart nearly breaks." A silly, lighthearted, sweet story. Highly recommend my dear friend Xiao Yujiang's upcoming novel, Has the Hater Gone Soft Today? [Entertainment Industry]. It's ridiculously amazing, and the writing is guaranteed to be great. Go check it out! Also recommend another dear friend's upcoming novel, The Assassin Who Fell Was Actually My White Moonlight. Historical danmei! The entire story is already written! Theme: Love everything you love