The Heartthrob Mistook Their Online Love Interest Again

Qi Yu was handsome, well-behaved, and from a good family. His life had always gone smoothly before he got into a prestigious university.

Lately, two things had been bothering him.

First, the person he'd started dating online after graduating high school kept refusing to meet him in person.

Second, several people around him seemed suspiciously like his online sweetheart.

Suspect number one: his roommate, who was in the same class as Qi Yu.

His roommate was plain-looking, strange-tempered, academically gifted, and extremely fastidious. His unapproachable air made people keep their distance.

One day in class, Qi Yu forgot to bring his book. His roommate lent him one for the first time ever, and got scolded by the teacher himself.

When Qi Yu opened the textbook, he found that the handwriting looked exactly like his online sweetheart's.

Suspect number two: Qi Yu's favorite gaming streamer.

The streamer had retired from professional play. With blond hair, a beanie, a handsome face, a silver tongue, and top-tier skills, he was a master of flick sniping. His lazy, seductive smile often sent the viewers in his livestream into a frenzy.

One day, after Qi Yu climbed to the top of the leaderboard, the streamer happily invited him to play duo queue.

Then the streamer accidentally revealed his alt account, whose ID was exactly the same as his online sweetheart's.

Suspect number three: the senior who had spoken at the new student ceremony.

The senior was gentle and considerate, wore gold-rimmed glasses, had a sexy physique and an air of abstinence, and had already become a top researcher with more than a dozen SCI papers at a young age. He was the ultimate intellectual crush.

One day, a friend dragged Qi Yu to a mixer for new students. When they ran into the senior, the love letter Qi Yu had sent to his online sweetheart fell right out of the senior's pocket.

After carefully probing and trying to verify his suspicions, Qi Yu discovered that it had all been a misunderstanding. The truth was that...

The roommate who had lent him a book actually hated him. The streamer who had sweet-talked him had only wanted to milk him for money. The senior had stolen the love letter to use as leverage against him.

Qi Yu immediately cut ties with all three. But who could have guessed that all three of them would do a complete 180?

The gloomy, antisocial roommate pinned him in a corner of the stairwell, tossed aside his thick glasses and swept back his heavy bangs, revealing a handsome face. Gritting his teeth, he said, "You were the one who came after me first. Now you're telling me you got the wrong person and it was all a misunderstanding? I'm telling you, that's never going to happen!"

The flirtatious, unfaithful streamer dropped his usual roguish attitude in front of a hundred thousand viewers and pleaded in a humble voice, "Baby, I was just out of my mind back then. I'll give back all the money and gear I cheated you out of. My feelings for you are real. Please don't leave me."

The gentle, considerate senior still wore his mild smile, but his tone left no room for refusal. "Since he won't meet you, let me take his place and look after you. Could you give me another chance?"

Qi Yu hadn't found his online sweetheart, and now he'd gotten himself tangled up with these three huge headaches. Just as he was at his wit's end, one night, in that hazy moment between sleep and waking...

Qi Yu dimly saw his childhood friend of more than ten years sneak a kiss.

Leaning close to his ear, the other man whispered in the familiar, deep voice:

"Baby, stay away from them, okay?"

One-on-one pairing, both leads have only ever been with each other, no betting on love interests, and both have extremely strong feelings for each other.

A seemingly sweet boy who's actually a vindictive black-bellied bottom x a cold, rational man on the outside who's secretly obsessed with his wife, a ghostly top

Premise: People should be honest with one another.