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[Taking April 24 off for a day. I’ve been staying up all week, and my brain’s stopped working 🥺] [Song Ran is the top x Lin Bai is the bottom. The blurb is from the top’s perspective, but the story is mainly from the bottom’s] Song Ran is a rich young master born with a silver spoon in his mouth, a reckless brat who thinks the world revolves around him. Through a series of mishaps, he ends up in bed with his dad’s most promising assistant. And they get married. His assistant and spouse, Lin Bai, is cold, old-fashioned, sharp-tongued, and picky. He has a gorgeous face but never does anything decent, and embodies every trait Song Ran can’t stand. After they get married, they’re like strangers. Whenever they run into each other, Lin Bai makes cutting remarks right to his face. Song Ran keeps plotting to get even someday. Then Song Ran transmigrates back to high school. Song Ran is overjoyed. The grown-up Lin Bai mocks him to his face, but young Lin Bai lets him squeeze and tease him all he wants. After transmigrating across half the city, Song Ran goes straight to Lin Bai, determined to clear his name. But in a dim alley, he sees a group of tall thugs just leaving. A thin boy in a dirty, oversized school uniform tucks his too-long bangs behind his ear. Blood seeps from the cuts on his hand as he looks at Song Ran with red-rimmed eyes and asks hoarsely: “Are you here to beat me up too?” Song Ran: “...” Song Ran’s heart gives a painful squeeze. Who the hell could lay a hand on him?! Before he was reborn, after they divorced because they simply couldn’t live together, Song Ran learned that Lin Bai had been hired by the Jiang family, who were at odds with his own family, and had risen to become the chairman’s special assistant. The next time he heard about Lin Bai, word had spread through their social circle that Jiang Sheng, the Jiang family’s heir, had made a grand, public confession of love to his assistant. At the time, he’d scoffed. “They’re made for each other. Good for them.” Back in high school, Song Ran is determined to keep anyone named Jiang at least ten meters away from Lin Bai. He snarls, “Jiang Sheng, you little bastard, don’t you dare go near my wife!” As he tosses and turns in bed every night, his thoughts keep circling back to one question: Did Lin Bai accept that confession or not? ① One-on-one, happy ending, mainly from the bottom’s perspective. The bottom hits hard, luckily the top can take a beating. ② Fictional setting! Entirely fictional! ③ Nothing much to say, so here’s an early New Year’s greeting to everyone! Theme: A little kindness can warm a heart