My Roommate Looks at Me Funny

[The story is complete and currently being revised. Please support the official version, mwah! I'd love a five-star review. Please add my upcoming story, The Background Character's Wife Everyone Covets, to your reading list!] One dorm, five straight guys, and one day a suspicious strip of fabric appears on the floor... . Zhu Qingyuan had had smooth sailing for eighteen years, until his identity as the fake young master was exposed one day and his entire family rejected and despised him. Enough is enough. Zhu Qingyuan ran away from home. To make money, he took up livestreaming in women's clothes and packed his things to move into a university dorm. All four of his roommates were devastatingly handsome, regulars on the campus confession wall, homophobic, and straight. For the sake of harmony in the dorm, he was cautious and furtive, keeping his secret identity under wraps and making sure they never found out. But they found out anyway. Zhu Qingyuan had just finished livestreaming and taken off his bunny ears, flinging them into their faces. He gave up trying to hide it, his expression cold. "If looking at me disgusts you, then you can leave now!" Roommates: How strange. Let's take another look. And... he smells so good :) - After that, things gradually started to get weird. Roommate One, the gentle and considerate student council president, lends him some clothes. Then he smiles with satisfaction. "Yuanyuan, you smell like me." Zhu Qingyuan: I washed the clothes before wearing them... Don't say weird things. Roommate Two, the most straight-laced of the bunch, corners him against the wall, burying his nose in Zhu Qingyuan's hair and taking a deep sniff. His tone is a little conflicted. "Zhu Qingyuan, tell me the truth. Are you seducing me? You've got a partner, so why are you flirting with me? You want me to be the other guy? No way!" Zhu Qingyuan: "..." Roommate Three, the cool and aloof academic ace, marks out the important exam material for him as usual, then takes the opportunity to make a request: if Zhu Qingyuan gets an answer wrong, he has to wear the new dress, the one with cat ears. Zhu Qingyuan pauses. You weren't like this before. Give me back my cool roommate. Roommate Four, a famous horror-game streamer on a certain platform, sends him another harassing message late at night: Baby, (late at night) (feeling hot) (lonely) it wouldn't be unreasonable to date me, would it? (excited) (flirting) Zhu Qingyuan: (stops breathing) I'm a straight guy, damn it! What's more, some observant fans notice that the videos recently posted by the blogger "Yuan Qing" always include something suggestive. Like a large hand with prominent knuckles, its palm wrapped around a red dress that was just taken off; Or the obviously oversized thin shirt on Yuan Qing, pulled low enough to reveal a suspicious red mark on his collarbone; Or the handsome man who keeps accidentally wandering into the frame... The signs all add up. - The five roommates start out "polite and respectful" toward one another, but later the four begin spying on and competing with each other, each wanting Zhu Qingyuan all to himself, even if it means using underhanded, shady tactics. A little dog-training fiction, a little flirting without realizing it, a little romantic rivalry. A cat-and-dog ensemble, essentially a sweet little story. That's right. An easygoing cat protagonist who sometimes gets prickly x a gentle ghostly guy / straight jock / cool academic ace / edgy chuunibyou guy Note: They won't all enter relationships at the same time. Upcoming story: The Background Character's Wife Everyone Covets Yu Qi transmigrates into a novel about a disliked character contrasted against a beloved one. He's the despised background character, brainlessly hated by Gongs One through Four, and destined for a tragic ending. So Yu Qi takes the initiative. After nearly ninety-nine chapters of hard work, he finally takes the protagonist's place through sheer ability, becoming the unattainable white moonlight in the hearts of every main and supporting Gong. An unexpected turn of events sends everything back to the beginning. Yu Qi becomes the universally hated man again, losing everything, including his status as the one loved by all. - Liang Min is Yu Qi's ex-husband from his universally hated days. The background character's ex-husband, the most background of all background characters. Dull and boring, stiff and wooden, and not much fun in bed. By chance, Yu Qi learns that later on, Liang Min will betray him for the protagonist. So, egged on by the main Gongs, Yu Qi humiliates him brutally and divorces him. After the divorce, Yu Qi continues his life as the "one loved by all," drifting between various outstanding Gongs. He soon forgets that Liang Min ever existed. - On the first rainy night after becoming universally hated again, Yu Qi is thrown out of the house. He walks along an empty street, his face so cold it's shaking, as if he's back to the very beginning, as pitiful as a pug willing to wag its tail at anyone. He silently clenches his fists and walks onto an overpass. The cold wind pelts him with icy sleet. Suddenly exhausted, Yu Qi closes his eyes and takes a step forward Then a strong arm catches him around the waist and pulls him back. "Trying to die?" A ragged breath rushes past his ear. Yu Qi presses his lips together and hears the man's grim voice. "Not a chance." Yu Qi: "..." - Liang Min takes Yu Qi away. The main Gongs regret what they did. They try their old tricks, attempting to drive Liang Min away again and take his place. # A born schemer, a great beauty protagonist x a mad-dog gong # A despairing widower and his ex-wife, whom everyone covets # Also known as The Young Master Yu and His Harem of Chasers Who Insult Him, and Honey, Let's Get Back Together. Get Lost, You're My Wife... Theme: Hold on to hope and keep moving forward.