I Want to Pursue You. May I?

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Twenty-one-year-old Jiang Zhan is a new star in medicine, rigid and aloof.

The wildest thing he'd ever done was help a friend rescue a boy who'd gotten into a roadside fight.

The boy was dazzlingly handsome. Jiang Zhan looked away as he treated the wound at the top of the boy's thigh.

A doctor's compassion knows no bounds. When the boy went to the bathroom, Jiang Zhan even helped him hold it.

The boy raised his long lashes and stared right at him, then suddenly said, "Your boyfriend doesn't have you in his eyes. I can tell."

Jiang Zhan replied calmly, "We give each other what we need." There was no point explaining himself to a boy.

"Then can I pursue you?"

Jiang Zhan felt the hand he was holding change. He knew the boy wasn't joking.

He answered with a stern face, "Come back when you're taller than me and all grown up."

He only meant to shut down the boy's wishful thinking. He never imagined that his casual words would set a burning light alight in the boy's eyes.

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At twenty-nine, Jiang Zhan is one of the top doctors at Bohai Medical University.

On his birthday, alone and having closed his heart to love to focus on his career, he walked into a friend's bar just to get drunk.

Amid the clinking glasses, he thought the man drinking beside him looked familiar. "Have we met?"

He Qiaowen, the newly crowned Best Actor, deliberately pulled up his mask and pointed at the poster behind him. "Maybe you saw me there."

Only then did Jiang Zhan notice the poster on the wall. He gave it a casual glance, then looked back at the man before him. Letting his fingers linger around his glass, he pointed lower down. "I mean, have I seen you here before?"

He Qiaowen smiled without answering and simply put out the cigarette between Jiang Zhan's fingers.

A cool, stiff older doctor on the bottom x a charming, roguish, scheming younger top

Reader's guide: The bottom is not the top's first. I write for love of writing, and read for fun. If that's not your thing, please skip it.

The Fake and Real Young Masters Ship Their Own CP in a Shura Showdown [Reborn]

From childhood, He Chen was the clever young master of the He family, treasured by everyone.

At twenty-four, after taking the He family's century-old pharmaceutical company public, it was poised to become an industry leader.

But on his birthday, the truth came out: he was the fake young master who had been switched at birth.

The parents who had raised him were now strangers with no connection to him, and saw him as a thorn in the He family's side.

Employees who once admired him deeply now all rolled their eyes at him.

Even his indecisive older brother became an excellent heir overnight.

It was as if He Chen had never done a single thing for the He company or the He family.

His accounts were frozen.

His room was sealed off.

His car was destroyed.

Even the one life that belonged to He Chen was worth less than the life of the He family's guard dog.

His grandfather, who had doted on him all these years, added peanut oil, which He Chen was severely allergic to, to his farewell dinner, then invited him to go for a swim.

As everyone wished, He Chen had a severe allergic reaction and drowned.

He Chen was lying in his garden when someone forced his eyelids open several times.

"Can you see me?"

Yes. He seemed familiar.

A very handsome face, strong features, deep-set eyes. He looked healthy and full of sunshine, unlike He Chen, dressed all in white... Was he an angel from heaven come to take him away?

"Can you hear me?"

Yes. He seemed to have heard that voice before.

A bright, pleasant voice, calling out a name he never wanted to hear again.

He Chen closed his eyes. He didn't want to fight anymore. This man was Yu Qingshuo, his grandfather's personal doctor, and the real young master of the He family.

"He Chen, everything in the He family that belongs to me is yours now."

But it was too late to matter.

A pair of large, well-defined hands held him tightly and warmed him, staying with him to the end of his life. Sadly, He Chen never woke up again...

He couldn't accept it.

He Chen finally forced his eyes open.

His vision was crowded with a family full of anxious faces. "Come quick, Chenchen's awake!"

He had been reborn at seventeen, after eating peanuts, having an allergic reaction, and just being brought back from the brink of death.

That night, his uncle invited an orphan with excellent grades and conduct, Yu Qingshuo, to come study with him.

He Chen smiled warmly at his family, their faces streaked with tears. Good. You're all still here!

Extra scene:

He Chen yawned again, slumped over his desk. "This is so hard to memorize. Read it one more time for me."

"All right." Yu Qingshuo's voice was clear and cool as he recited it again.

"The Road to Shu is so hard. Read it just one more time." He Chen licked his little pointed canine tooth and stared at Yu Qingshuo, his eyes curving into crescents.

"Sure." Yu Qingshuo's voice grew a little hoarse. He tapped the book with his index fingertip. "Look here."

He Chen obediently lowered his eyes, fluttered his lashes, and stared at the long, slender finger he knew so well.

Theme: Be self-reliant and cherish yourself, and life will go on without end