The Desire Beneath the Hidden Shirt

[Complete] Ye Qingxi has only one boyfriend.

But her boyfriend has a twin brother who just won't leave him alone.

Her boyfriend clings to her, and his brother clings to him, so whenever Ye Qingxi dates, it's always a three-person affair.

Awkward moments are inevitable. Sometimes she really does call one by the other's name. Sometimes, while hugging one of them, she has a moment of doubt.

Can you blame her?

Ye Qingxi feels guilty.

Her boyfriend, however, is very understanding.

He says, "My brother is the person I'm closest to. When I'm not home, he's me."

He even pretends to be his brother to tease her: "Was that convincing enough?"

Ye Qingxi thinks she's reading too much into things.

But his brother's gaze seems... less than innocent.

He says, "Isn't it amazing? We happen to like all the same things, so I've let him have everything since we were kids."

Then he asks her, "Aren't you curious? For example, whether the two of us are... exactly alike in every way?"

He says this on a deserted street, where moonlight and the dim glow of streetlamps mingle, his lips right beside her ear.

Ye Qingxi gets chills. She looks away and turns her head. "Only a pervert would be curious."

"Is that so?" He chuckles softly, lowering his voice to a whisper. "That's not what you said in that anonymous post."

*Casual teasing is the deadliest kind / You are the secret desire pressed against my skin

*Puppy younger brother, foxlike girl, and catlike older brother

*Content warning: The female lead is not a virgin, the male lead is

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Cover by @Medea

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See the blurb below.

Many years later, in the ballroom on the second floor of the Waldorf Hotel, an enormous crystal chandelier sparkles brilliantly, its dazzling light almost blinding.

Xie Mingyu enters, her skirt swaying, and immediately spots the man surrounded by admirers at the center of the room.

The lover from her past, who had shared her hardships but never her happier days.

He has grown more mature, his features deeper and unfamiliar. In his immaculate suit, he smiles pleasantly among the guests.

Instead, she remembers how young and uncertain they both were when they first arrived in this city.

The old, rundown apartment they shared, where their room was all of 25 square meters.

The shared toilet and bathroom they had to race others to use every morning.

The fennel buns sold by the old lady downstairs, always as unpleasant as they were forgettable, but at least cheap.

She walked at least 20,000 steps a day working as a sales assistant in the CBD.

No matter how late she finished work, she would see his tall, lonely figure waiting outside for her.

All the little patience he had was reserved for her.

The urban village was an ugly scar in the heart of the city's prosperity.

The smell of mold clung to her nostrils like a parasite, day after day.

Back then, she would hear trains rumbling past her window in the middle of the night like monsters. She would lie in bed like a stranded fish.

In the 25-square-meter rental, the bed creaked whenever she turned over. At 23, Xie Mingyu gritted her teeth and thought she hated everything about this place.

Except him.

How strange. In the end, she had everything, but lost him.

"My life had only one grand summer. After that summer, the moon fell from the sky.

Every summer since, I've tried to sketch that moon, jealous of all it had, yet still in love with its tenderness.", Hermann Hesse

*Heartless woman x devoted man, rekindled love

*Impoverished lovers meet again at the top after breaking up

Theme: The love we give others is what overflows from a heart made whole.