Is Dr. Xu Asleep?

Xu Shixing is elegant and handsome, the youngest attending surgeon in Hongcheng Plastic Surgery. He's popular at the hospital and often has patients asking for his contact information.

Nobody knows that Dr. Xu suffers from severe insomnia and often has to resort to extreme sports to tire himself out enough to sleep.

After an accident, he had a wild night with someone and slept for ten hours. When he woke up, the other person had vanished.

When they ran into each other again, the tall, slender man stood across the corridor from him, his gaze resting on Xu as though it had physical weight.

Unable to resist the temptation of a full night's sleep, Dr. Xu grabbed him in front of everyone and asked in a low voice, "Would you sleep with me? Name your price."

*

Qin Lang had been secretly in love with Xu Shixing since they were students.

Only he knew that the dark things in his past kept him from doing as he pleased.

He never expected such temptation to come after a night of tenderness.

All his reason crumbled before instinct. Qin Lang's Adam's apple bobbed. "Okay."

It was more than he could have hoped for.

*

After living together under their agreement for a while, Dr. Xu started to feel that something was very wrong.

After a late-night shift

A car at the roadside flashed its hazard lights. Qin Lang rolled down the window. "Get in."

Xu Shixing: ? Weren't we supposed to be getting what we each wanted?

When a patient doggedly pursues him, bringing flowers and afternoon tea

Qin Lang: "My boyfriend's a picky eater. He doesn't eat a lot of things, and he doesn't drink coffee either. Don't buy them for him again."

Xu Shixing: ? Weren't we supposed to stay out of each other's private lives?

During annual leave, New Year's Day, National Day, and all the other holidays

Qin Lang: "I've arranged skydiving, deep-sea diving, and heli-skiing."

Xu Shixing: ? Weren't we supposed to part on good terms?

Later, Dr. Xu no longer had trouble sleeping, but he became most afraid of hearing Qin Lang say, "Dr. Xu, time for bed~"

Xu Shixing: ...Get lost!

An insomniac doctor X a possessive, scheming, hypocritical younger man

A story about healing each other, bittersweet and sweet, with the balance probably being bittersweet, sweet, sweet, sweet.

[Same-series upcoming novel, an age-gap story with a younger top, Difficult to Raise. Please add it to your favorites~!!]

In investment banking circles, everyone knows that Shen Yanchu is rich and flirtatious, and lives by the creed, "The most stable relationship is one based on money and mutual benefit."

But one phone call is all it takes for someone to summon him home from a business dinner tangled in a web of competing interests.

No one would guess that the call came from Shen Yu, the boy Shen Yanchu took in more than ten years ago.

He raised him from the age of five, and they've been together for over a decade.

A close friend once warned him that Shen Yu was calculating and ambitious, and that he shouldn't keep a heartless ingrate around.

Shen Yanchu didn't take it seriously. "What ambition could he have? He's just a little kid who's scared of bugs."

Men and women eager to ingratiate themselves with Shen Yanchu hinted that Shen Yu looked at him strangely.

Shen Yanchu laughed it off. "I raised him from a little kid. I've spent enough money on him to stack it higher than he is tall. Of course he looks at me differently from other people."

Then his school called to report that Shen Yu's grades were slipping, and he might be dating someone.

Shen Yanchu frowned, convinced it was serious. He hung up and gave Shen Yu a stern reprimand. "No dating before you're an adult!"

Later, after Shen Yu's eighteenth birthday party, Shen Yanchu sat on the sofa and looked at him. For the first time, he realized that the little kid he'd always seen was now a handsome, dashing adult, even half a head taller than him.

Shen Yu met his gaze, eyes blazing, then leaned over and backed Shen Yanchu into the corner of the sofa. "I'm eighteen now. Can I date?"

Theme: Love can overcome anything.