My Crush Is a Brooding Loner

Blurb:

Qin Jining has liked someone for a long time.

The other boy is one of the few scholarship students at Norton Academy: brilliant grades, terrible circumstances. Though he eats in the cafeteria three times a day, the muscles beneath his faded T-shirt are firm and well-defined.

Shao Yi is perfect in every way, except for three tiny flaws that are easy to overlook.

First, he's a mute as a clam.

Second, he's obsessed with role-play.

Qin Jining's phone gives a faint buzz. He stares at the lines of text, his face burning:

[Baby, that sweater you wore last night was too light. Darker colors suit you better.]

[Of course... you look best with nothing on, baby.]

Third, he likes to send Qin Jining anonymous harassing texts from different phone numbers.

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Shao Yi's crush is a child of privilege, born to shine above the clouds. He could never spare even a glance for someone as lowly as Shao Yi.

So Shao Yi hides in a dark, cramped corner, gloomily spying on the perfect moon in his heart.

Even after Qin Jining is unexpectedly assigned to his group, unexpectedly becomes his partner in PE class, and unexpectedly moves into his dorm, Shao Yi still doesn't dare cross the line.

That is, until Qin Jining accidentally lets slip one day that he already has someone he likes.

Shao Yi feigns composure and offers him a few words of congratulations. That very afternoon, he blindfolds Qin Jining and corners him in the last bathroom stall.

Before You Read:

1. A seemingly dull, secretly depraved, gloomy bookworm top x a haughty, forthright, sweet kitten bottom.

2. Forthrightness beats gloominess, and natural innocence beats scheming.

3. All their role-play is just a bit of fun between lovers. This couple knows how to play.

4. 195 cm x 178 cm, with a build and height difference.

5. Many details are author inventions. In this story, students at Norton Academy attend a year of preparatory school after their final year of high school, placing it between high school and university. Both protagonists are already adults when the story begins.

Theme: Freedom to love.