Why Won't My Roommate Cry Yet?

Blurb

Le Jinhuan was skiing when someone stole his first kiss. By the time he reacted, the other person had already disappeared. All he remembered was what they looked like.

He'd finally turned eighteen, and before he could even start dating, he'd lost his first kiss. He was so upset that he dreamed about that person's face all night.

When school started, someone asked for his contact information. He looked up and realized it was the very culprit he'd been dreaming about for a month.

And that wasn't all: the guy was his roommate in the bed right next to his.

After reading online accounts of people weeping over failed online romances, Le Jinhuan had a sudden revelation.

Nothing could be more devastating, and yet not get him in trouble with the school.

He made a new account to hide his identity and racked his brains trying to message the guy. He sent him good mornings and good nights every day, calling him "gege" over and over.

He sent more and more suggestive photos, and the guy became more and more indulgent toward him.

Finally, the guy was about to agree to be his boyfriend.

Le Jinhuan didn't even give him a chance to confess. He deleted and blocked him, then sat on his bed and looked innocently at his roommate in the next bed, pretending to be concerned. "Are you okay?"

Why wasn't he crying yet?

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Jiang Xuyan had always known that his roommate in the next bed hated him. He also knew the other guy had a boyfriend.

In the dorm, the guy acted as if Jiang Xuyan didn't exist. Online, though, he was completely unrestrained, treating him neither like a roommate nor like someone with boundaries.

Today he'd send a picture of his legs, tomorrow a photo of himself in a little dress, and the day after that, he'd sweetly ask to see Jiang Xuyan's abs.

In person, the guy sitting in the next bed was like an arrogant cat, his eyes saying, "What are you looking at?"

Online, he was sending Jiang Xuyan a soft, sweet, "Good night, gege."

Jiang Xuyan wasn't going to be the other man.

...Probably.

He put on his headphones and played the latest voice message. The other guy's soft, sweet voice came through.

"Hubby."

Jiang Xuyan shamefully felt his heart flutter.

He'd only just prepared himself to steal someone else's boyfriend, and then he got blocked and deleted.

In the dorm, he looked up in shock and saw the other guy watching him with clear, amused eyes.

"Are you okay?" The delight in the other guy's voice was impossible to hide.

Jiang Xuyan suddenly smiled. Not really. Now he didn't just want to commit a moral transgression, he also wanted to commit a crime of indecency.

1. The boyfriend is a misunderstanding.

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At the start of September, when school began, a tall, fair-skinned transfer student arrived at Shuncheng No. 4 High School. He kept people at arm's length, and within a week he'd become known as the cool, aloof top student among his classmates and a model student in his teachers' eyes.

He received so many love letters he could barely hold them, and had countless admirers. But rumors said he liked guys and had a boyfriend in university.

The transfer student, Pei Xu, never once bothered to explain.

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Yan Cheng first saw Pei Xu at the flag-raising ceremony on the first day of school. The second time was at an internet cafe.

The way Pei Xu wore headphones and played games with a cold expression was so good-looking. Did well-behaved students stay up all night at internet cafes, too?

Yan Cheng leaned over curiously for a look, and a blood-red ghost suddenly sprang out of the screen, making him grab Pei Xu's shoulder in fright.

Pei Xu replied calmly, "Let go."

From then on, the two began to cross paths, and Yan Cheng started running into Pei Xu often.

It had been a month since school started before Yan Cheng finally moved into the dorm, only to discover that he and Pei Xu were roommates.

As a roommate, Yan Cheng thought Pei Xu had terrible habits.

He never blow-dried his hair after showering, so his collar got wet and revealed the red mole on his chest. He would forget to put on pants when he got out of bed in the morning, and never bothered to change clothes where people couldn't see him. He ate delicately, but even drinking milk could make him choke until his face turned red, leaving milk stains at the corners of his mouth.

He even got into the wrong bed after studying late!

When he slept, he was all soft and cuddly, and even rubbed against Yan Cheng's hand!

Unable to stand it anymore, Yan Cheng started interfering with Pei Xu's routine.

He blow-dried Pei Xu's hair after his showers, brought him pants in the morning, remembered to pull his collar up, watched him eat, and forbade him from staying up late.

He thought he was just doing good deeds, but one night Pei Xu asked him, "Yan Cheng, are you secretly in love with me?"

Yan Cheng suddenly came to his senses. How were these actions any different from taking care of his own wife?

But Pei Xu seemed to have a boyfriend!

#I've been straight for eighteen years, and suddenly I'm gay! But what do I do if he has a boyfriend?

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