Between the Cracks

The main story was completed on May 31, 2026. I may revise it later. There are extra chapters, which will be updated slowly.

Next book: "Mentos and a Coke Bottle [Esports]"

Completed works: "[Esports] Max-Level AD Reborn" and "[Esports] The World Champion Changes Careers"

Slowly updating on my homepage: "[Quick Transmigration] When Spiderwebs Intertwine"

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[Once I start a story, I won't abandon it, so read with confidence~]

[The cover lettering was commissioned by me, and I own the rights.]

[Blurb]

A ray of light shining through a crack in the darkness showed him the future, but he never imagined that the light itself came from the darkness.

Xiao Heng was terribly unlucky. His biological father rejected him at birth, then, after his mother passed away, wanted to bring home the son who had been left outside the family. Xiao Heng had never known a father's love, and now he didn't want to know it, either.

A beast raised in darkness eventually learned to hide behind a cold exterior.

In the autumn of Xiao Heng's second year of high school, a new neighbor moved into the vacant apartment next door. He was tall, handsome, and long-legged, and he captivated all the single women in the apartment block.

Uncle Qian said Brother Jiang was the most handsome, most stylish boss in Chicheng, and there wasn't a second man in the whole district who could compare.

Xiao Heng thought he was right.

But Qian Chaoyue hadn't finished. Brother Jiang was the most handsome, most stylish boss in Chicheng, but he was also the poorest boss around.

[Character setup]

A poker-faced, kindhearted, somewhat tragic, pure-hearted, cool-dad-type top x a seemingly aloof but actually talkative, secretly flirtatious bottom

[Content notes] (Fictional modern setting, no characters are based on real people)

Older top, 11-year age gap, one-on-one, happy ending, sweet story, not much melodrama, romance develops gradually, a slow and steady little story.

The top is a little rough around the edges, though not much, and starts out very poor!

The timeline is the autumn when Little Jiang is reborn in the companion story "Max-Level AD"! Both stories share the same universe!

[Other]

The author is an extreme CP shipper and just wants to write about a sweet, lovey-dovey couple. (Read that with me!)

My stories aren't for people with particular character preferences. If I see character-bashing, self-insert fantasies, or top/bottom-role arguments, I'll start cursing people out.

Theme: Happiness comes from hard work.