I Thought You Were My Best Friend, But You...

I thought you were my best friend, but you're... cheating on me? [One] The third time Chen Zaixi confessed to Liang Tan, the young man sighed softly. "I think we should start out as friends." "Thanks, but I don't need any friends." Chen Zaixi politely turned him down, though she couldn't help feeling wistful about her secret feelings for Liang Tan. "You like him?" Cheng Song jumped down the steps outside the library, smiling as he held out a hand to her. "Then get together with me." Chen Zaixi: "…?" "Liang Tan has a weird quirk. He only likes other people's girlfriends." He lowered his voice, speaking into her ear in an almost tempting tone. "If you get together with me, he'll make a move on you himself." Chen Zaixi believed him and agreed to pretend to be his girlfriend. It was only pretend. So Chen Zaixi couldn't understand why, when she and Liang Tan were "caught in bed together," Cheng Song's eyes turned red and he completely lost control. As if they'd really cheated on him. [Two] Liang Tan had to admit that deciding to be friends with Chen Zaixi was foolish. Their relationship should have gone further. Just as he was planning to confess, she showed up at his best friend's birthday party. "This is my girlfriend, Zaizai," Cheng Song said with a grin. "Cute, right?" Liang Tan stared fixedly at the scene. "Cute." "Cute or not, don't you dare get any ideas." Cheng Song warned him in a joking tone. "A friend's wife is off-limits." Liang Tan did his best to stay calm. "Of course." Day after day, night after night, jealousy scorched him until that calm finally began to crack. On a stormy night, Chen Zaixi was stranded at the library. Liang Tan came through the rain to pick her up, carrying a black umbrella. He quietly tilted the umbrella away, letting the rain soak one of his shoulders. Liang Tan calmly asked: "If you said you liked me... would you still mean it?" [Three] Cheng Song and Liang Tan had been best friends since childhood, inseparable as two boys sharing a pair of pants. Of course, they were called best friends because they had been through life and death together. So later, when they fell out and started fighting, "I regret pulling you out of the river." Cheng Song wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and struck Liang Tan where it hurt most with the cruelest words he could find. "Why don't you just die!" They went from best friends to enemies who wanted each other dead. The aloof beauty becomes a homewrecker for love / Best friends turn against each other / A rivalry-filled love triangle [Reader's Guide] 1. Set on a college campus, focused mainly on romance, with a laid-back, everyday feel. 2. The female lead is naturally a bit of a heartbreaker. There are two male leads, referring to the amount of narrative focus they receive. 3. Readers with high moral standards for the protagonists should proceed with caution! Readers who are devoted to the male leads should definitely proceed with caution! If you have a lot of sensitive topics, it's best to ask for a content warning before reading. 4. It's a chaotic, twisted, slightly bittersweet pure romance (?). For the style, see the author's other stories in this series and their completed ratings. Theme: Loving yourself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.