[A heads-up: the gong really does love the shou. This is an angsty, melodramatic story. If that’s not your thing, feel free to drop it.]
“They went mad in different ways, but ended up in the same place. How could they not be made for each other?”
[Former doormat, now an awkward, heartbroken cat-like gong] x [Top-tier flirt who doesn’t realize he’s in love with the gong]
Stage One:
He Ying spent his whole life as a lovesick doormat, proving through experience that “a melon forced off the vine isn’t sweet.”
Luckily, he was reborn in high school, before he’d confessed. He swore to turn over a new leaf, stay away from Liang Tong, and stop letting love make him stupid.
But why did Liang Tong take a step closer every time he backed away?!
Not only did he offer one-on-one tutoring, he also switched seats to sit beside him. The drawer that should have held nothing but workbooks was stuffed with snacks for him, and Liang Tong would draw out his name in a soft, sing-song voice.
It was nothing like the aloof, untouchable image he’d had in his previous life.
He Ying hesitated, then one day, after Liang Tong had gone to the convenience store during break to buy him a drink, he finally asked tactfully, “Did something happen to you lately?”
Before he could finish, Liang Tong picked up the bottle of lemon juice, unscrewed the cap for him, then set it down on a napkin to catch the condensation.
The whole thing came so naturally to Liang Tong that he barely seemed to notice. Then he looked up at He Ying. “Hmm?”
He Ying: ...
Did something go wrong when he was reborn???
Stage Two:
He Ying stared blankly. He’d wondered countless times whether Liang Tong had been reborn too, but he’d played dumb and lost himself in a lovely dream of denial.
He’d thought that if they got another chance, they could have a different ending.
He Ying took a deep breath and asked, “Was it fun, playing me?”
Liang Tong was speechless. He wanted to explain that they’d been bitterly entangled in their previous life, and one of them was incapable of loving someone of the same sex. He had only wanted to keep the two women apart. He never expected the other person to confess to He Ying.
But his explanation sounded feeble and hollow. “They weren’t right for each other. They would have wasted their lives together.”
He Ying looked at him, his gaze so calm it was frightening. He wasn’t stupid. By now, he could obviously tell their feelings weren’t what he’d thought they were.
But he didn’t understand.
“If they weren’t right for each other, does that mean we are?”
“Liang Tong, why won’t you let me go?”
Stage Three:
He Ying never imagined he’d run into Liang Tong again in a bar. Neon lights flashed painfully in his eyes. They looked at each other across the dancing crowd, and a single glance was enough to tell them they both recognized each other.
He had no intention of rekindling things with his ex from his previous life. He picked up his briefcase and turned to leave, but his unreliable friend from his time studying abroad, who was also a client at work, grabbed him tight and pointed toward Liang Tong. “Holy crap, He Ying, that guy is totally your type!”
He Ying: ...
Obviously. He knew that perfectly well.
Liang Tong moved quickly. While they were tugging at each other, he had already crossed the crowd and come over. His beautiful eyes curved as he smiled, perfectly aware of how to use his looks to get what he wanted from He Ying. “Long time no see.”
His unreliable friend wrote on the back of He Ying’s hand: He’s so handsome!
Liang Tong glanced at the person still holding He Ying’s hand. The man looked like a playboy who flitted from flower to flower. Liang Tong’s smile cooled, though his voice stayed gentle. “You’re into this type now?”
His unreliable friend: ...Wait, did he just insult me?
Liang Tong didn’t wait for He Ying to answer. He chuckled softly.
“It’s all right. This time, I’ll be the one to pursue you.”
Even if it meant clinging to him, even if it meant carving out his own heart.
Original title: Ying Tong
* Both the gong and shou are reborn, but the gong doesn’t know the shou was reborn too.
* At first, the shou flirts with the gong. Later, the shou pursues the gong.
* Gong-focused only in terms of perspective. This isn’t a story for gong- or shou-fans specifically. At heart, it’s about a couple falling in love.
* A little angst makes things sweeter. Happy ending, and it’s sweet most of the time.
Upcoming gong-focused story: My Wife Thinks I’ve Fallen for Someone Else After I Switched Accounts. Please add it to your collection.
Chi Yuan fell in love at first sight with an NPC in a new event.
The other character was so beautiful that his eyes outshone even the game’s rarest gemstone items. Chi Yuan was sure that as soon as the event opened, the player forums would be flooded with hot threads about him.
Luckily, he’d found a bug that let him enter early. Chi Yuan planned to win over the NPC first. Once they entered a [Partner] relationship, the other’s Baidu Baike page would have to list him as a partner.
Chi Yuan was fired up. The only problem was that this event village had a level cap, and his main account, ranked number one on the server, couldn’t enter.
No problem. He could just use an alt and have his main account send him supplies!
The one who gets there first gets the prize. Honey, here I come!
*
Lin liked a strange man.
The man was average-looking and dressed like a poor beggar. He muttered to himself all day instead of finding an honest job. He was weak too. Even a neighbor’s pig could knock him half to death.
But Chi Yuan would spend a whole day’s wages on flowers for him, take his hand and sneak him outside the village to see the sea, and smile brightly as he called him “darling.”
As if possessed, Lin accepted Chi Yuan’s marriage proposal.
But just a few days after the wedding, a crowd of strange people poured into their peaceful village, doing the same bizarre things Chi Yuan did. Chi Yuan said they were dangerous, told him to wear a mask, and urged him not to go out.
Chi Yuan started sleeping at home all day. No matter how much Lin called him, he wouldn’t wake up. Only at night would he spend a little time with Lin like he used to.
Just as Lin started to wonder if Chi Yuan had grown tired of him, a tall, handsome man knocked on their door. He held a bag of rare treasures, didn’t even look at Lin, and simply left the bag at the door.
This went on for days.
Looking at his sleeping husband and all those treasures, Lin grew more and more uneasy.
Could his husband have become that man’s kept lover?!
*
Chi Yuan was in the middle of switching to his main account to fight a boss when the System suddenly sent him a message about a linked account: [Lin has filed for divorce.]
The server’s top player immediately darkened his expression. He left without even splitting the dungeon rewards, and the whole forum started discussing who’d been foolish enough to provoke him.
In his panic, Chi Yuan forgot to switch accounts and rushed straight home, still covered in monster blood. There he found Lin holding his alt’s body, tears still on his face.
Chi Yuan: !!!
He rushed forward. “Who hurt you?!”
[Lin has filed a duel request.]
Lin glared at him and said fiercely, “I’ll give you anything you want.”
“Can you please leave my husband alone? I really love him.”
Theme: Learn to develop a healthy attitude toward love and cherish the people around you
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Sometimes I really don't understand why two people can still keep their original intentions and insist on protecting each other after they exchange bad words. It stands to reason that people who love each other the most will hurt each other more deeply. It's not just that he knows all your pain points, but that you think he is the person who understands you best in the world and the person who protects you best, but he says he is leaving. Giving up from faith is the last straw. For those who think long-term, it is as desperate as an ocean-going sailboat that has lost its power, lost its route, lost sight of the lighthouse, and sunk with a hole in it. In the boundless deep sea, he wanted to reduce your weight and help you fly high into the sky to see the direction clearly, so he turned into a seagull and climbed higher and higher. But you are just another creature who does not understand his language. How do you understand his behavior? You only know that he wants to leave. No matter what the truth is, leaving means leaving, and if you don't want it, you don't want it. Unless he admits, "Well, this is my helpless move. In fact, I can't live without you at all." After leaving, his best life will be as miserable as yours. Acknowledge the meaning of your love for me, just like the habits you infect me, accept the instinctive virus I spread to you, whether you have allergies or shock, I will imprint my bad genes. I don't want the word "need you" to become my only weakness. You obviously not only need my happiness and peace, but also my company and my wisdom. Selfish bird, don't abandon me on an island again. Otherwise I would beg for a tsunami to put us to sleep like the night that covers every bed. Alas, after reading this article, I couldn't help but think of a lyric I like: This is the first time that I have seen that love can be generous and selfish. Although simple imitation is boring, the talent of rhetoric is really hard to find. Just the right amount of exaggeration, vivid comparisons on paper, eye-catching innovations, and avoidance that show the foundation of his writing skills... All together form a penetrating description. We know that rain is lingering and can represent sorrow, but we do not know that sorrow is sticky and cannot be washed or dried. We know that collapse means losing one's mind, but we don't know that it means a ball of knotted wool, and that a beautiful building has turned into ruins. The dripping flesh and blood can be the exploding fireworks, the tears can be the light rain sprinkled on the heart, the half-dry clothes can be the sloppy and entangled love, and the casual dressing style in autumn can be the life of each person going his own way. The beauty of rhetoric is really difficult to imitate. It cannot be mastered by simply replacing phrases. It requires you to have a unique and abstract understanding of the logic of everything. It is a combination of arts and sciences, a hybrid of living things and non-living things, and is an amazing spectacle like the butterfly effect. Human thinking and perception can constantly jump in space and time, peel off cocoons, connect the essence of countless individuals, and create creations with the characteristics of "kinship". This is truly a wealth of labor that cannot be matched by other species at the ideological level of human beings. "I often look for wonderful sentences in the autumn mountains, and drive the spring scenery into the deepest corners." Qingjiang draws materials from reality and uses the rhetoric of "two lovers are happy" rather than the forceful combination of arranged marriages, and returns exquisite and practical descriptions to reality. In terms of narrative technique, it is a very comfortable "storytelling" style. The story is eloquent and full of affection. This is not a fun fairy tale, nor is it an unrealistic theme. Together because of love, and separated because of love. This love and hate is too real, too relatable, and heart-wrenching. For example, How Ying's obliviousness is really familiar to me. Life is all about ups and downs... If you can only choose to disappear one of the painful memories and sex, the brain will have no choice but to erase the memory in order to ensure that you live well. Alas, if I could be like He Ying, my sad memories would have room to maneuver. It would be another day to envy other people's creators. When will my master give me a plot like this? Well... That's all written here. Finally, I wish the author will continue to produce good works and hit me hard with his writing and plot ?????????
He Maomao was really miserable in his last life. It was very similar to the high-needs cat who was neglected for 11 years and was found to have a very bad life.
Ahhhh, I really like the last few chapters, keep it up! [Spread flowers][spread flowers]
He Ying is really in love. The emotional shortcomings in his previous life made him very painful, but he can still plunge into it in this lifekkk
I finished reading it in a hurry. Overall, it was good. However, I personally felt that the supporting characters were a bit upstage and the irrelevant plot was a bit heavy. Come on, author.
So where can I see my wife's masterpiece 😭 😭 😭 😭
It was finished at 16:46 pm on January 1, 2025. It's really beautiful. Many chapters made me burst into tears. It was such a pity that we were two people in the previous life. As long as we communicated more, we would not drift apart. For people with slow emotions, love is always an afterthought. Only after one party leaves will you know, oh, he is really important to me. I wish He Ying and Liang Tong in parallel time and space eternal happiness. 🌈🌈 (ps: I will always remember those cars? 💛 💛 💛 scratching the liver and lungs)
Congratulations on the completion! So where is the big main position?
I've been following it intermittently. It's so well written!! I believe that words can heal people. During this period of time, I was very anxious and stressed. When I saw the warm daily life of the two of them, especially the part where they met their parents during the Chinese New Year, even as a bystander, I was gently healed. I like the writing style, it's very warm. My body felt warm after reading it. Moreover, the quality of the article is so good and the full text is free. It's so conscientious! Come on big
So cute. I like it.