Can You Break Up with Your Boyfriend?

My new novel next door is now serializing. Its blurb is at the end~

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This novel: Homewrecker story

[Calculating, black-tea college junior top] x [easygoing, naturally alluring long-haired bottom with a slow-to-react streak]

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Yu Yumo had been rich for generations, going back to his father's father's father. He'd always lived without many constraints, doing whatever he pleased.

He had the face of a womanizer who was seeing eight people at once, but he was devoted and faithful to his current boyfriend, and was famous among his friends as a wonderful partner.

That made the evidence of his boyfriend cheating, delivered in an anonymous email one day, all the more humiliating.

Yu Yumo looked through the indecent photos. The affair had gone on for quite some time. Furious, he laughed instead.

Just then, the phone on the table vibrated, and two messages popped up:

"It's raining outside, ge."

"Can I stay over tonight...?"

The messages made Yu Yumo's split lip ache faintly. Before he could reply, the person on the other end of the chat appeared in the study the very next second, as if he had never left.

The young man's warm body drew close. His waist and abdomen were firm, his muscles clearly defined, and he nearly enclosed Yu Yumo in his arms.

Qin Zhan followed the person in his arms' gaze to the computer screen. His puzzled question was perfectly pitched. "Huh? Your boyfriend... seems to be kissing someone else?"

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Yu Yumo felt tender toward his younger friend Qin Zhan, who worked several part-time jobs to pay his way through school, and couldn't help looking after him.

Later, he was trapped in that younger man's arms. They were so close their hot breaths mingled, and Yu Yumo could no longer tell whose heartbeat he was hearing.

The other man gazed up at him with puppy-dog eyes, holding up one photo after another documenting his boyfriend's affair. "Ge, can you break up with him?"

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A last-minute cancellation at work gave Yu Yumo the chance to attend the birthday banquet hosted by the old-money Chu family. The guest of honor was the Chu family's only son, who rarely appeared in public.

Yu Yumo had been assigned to attend the banquet by his family. Bored, he thought that once he got home, he could surprise his little boyfriend.

The other man was in the middle of finals and spending his time studying in the library. Just a few minutes ago, he'd messaged Yu Yumo to say he was at the library, with a part-time job afterward.

Just then, the guest of honor arrived late.

Amid the clinking glasses and lively conversation, Yu Yumo narrowed his eyes and got a good look at the newcomer.

Why did Chu Zhan, the Chu family's son, look so familiar?

He moved closer and heard him talking with a friend: "When are you going to tell your boyfriend about the luxury yacht you had custom-built for him? It wasn't cheap, either. A few hundred million dollars."

The young man said nothing.

His friend was shocked. "He still doesn't know who you are?"

The young man lowered his eyes and took a sip of champagne, concealing the obsession in his gaze. "If he likes it, I can keep pretending for the rest of my life."

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Qin Zhan (Chu Zhan) x Yu Yumo

* Younger top

Note: The pacing is a little slow for a specific reason. They won't break up too early, but here are a few key chapters for readers:

* Cheating discovered (Chapter 25); * Confession (Chapter 32); * Official breakup (Chapter 37)

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After a Socially Anxious Person Gets Bound to a Dating System

Fake homophobe, secretly gay, eager-to-please masochist x fake cold and aloof, actually socially anxious and adorably shy

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As a seasoned socially anxious person, Jiang Yu never socialized unless he had to.

Who could have guessed that a deranged System would suddenly show up and demand that he complete its socializing quests?

The System declared with force:

"Our goal: Help the Host overcome social anxiety!"

"Our plan: Make a close friend within ninety days!"

"Our target: The most outgoing student within fifty meters!"

Jiang Yu looked around. The only people in sight were him and...

When he saw who it was, the young man said firmly, "Impossible."

The other person was Xiao Zhiye, from the neighboring department, exactly the kind of super-extrovert Jiang Yu feared most.

And also,

Jiang Yu called up the System. "Do you know Xiao Zhiye is homophobic?"

The System said, "Sorry, dear, that's private information, so we don't know."

Jiang Yu's expression went blank. "Then do you know I'm gay?"

Making a socially anxious gay guy bond with a homophobic straight man within ninety days? The System had picked the wrong person in Jiang Yu.

There was no way he could complete this quest.

But the very next second, Jiang Yu found himself smiling and nodding at the other man against his will.

The System said, "Host detected slacking off. The System will take over the Host's body to complete the quest~"

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To avoid having the System take over, Jiang Yu had no choice but to grit his teeth and do it himself.

Quest 1: Initiate at least three meaningful conversations within the allotted time.

Quest 2: Add him on WeChat.

Quest X: Make physical contact with the target, with a contact area of 3 to 5 cm² and a duration of 1 to 2 seconds.

Jiang Yu: Is this a normal quest?

System: They're all scientific strategies based on data analysis. Totally normal!

So Jiang Yu listened to Xiao Zhiye say, "It makes me sick when a homosexual touches me," while forcing himself to pretend to accidentally brush against the hand hanging by the other man's side.

Quest X complete.

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Later, the contact area required by the physical-contact quest expanded dramatically, and the duration increased to five seconds.

Jiang Yu measured the required contact area: Ha, might as well just die.

To avoid the quest, the young man took a leave of absence and locked himself at home, trying to stop the System from taking over.

The next day, the doorbell rang.

Jiang Yu realized in despair that he'd lost control of his body once again.

The moment he threw himself into Xiao Zhiye's arms, he heard the System announce, "Quest complete."

The tall young man naturally wrapped an arm around his waist and pulled them even closer.

Xiao Zhiye buried his face in Jiang Yu's neck and took a deep breath, as he had done so many times before. The dryness in his throat finally eased.

He said, "You haven't replied in so long, Jiangjiang. I was worried sick."

Before Jiang Yu could react, the System, having just upgraded with a new feature, suddenly let out a shrill scream: "Didn't you say you were homophobic? Why is the dating target's desire level through the roof?!"

Theme: Opportunity only comes to those who are prepared