Who Are You Calling a Childhood Friend?

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During the summer before his senior year of high school, Qi Shaoyu was abruptly banished by his mother to an island country to attend summer school.

"Sweetheart, considering how you've been acting like a little menace these past two years of high school, your dad and I have unanimously decided to cut off all your money. You're going to support yourself in the island country for a month. If you really can't stick it out, you can visit your old friend in Kamakura."

Qi Shaoyu laughed in exasperation. Summer school, my foot. It was all nonsense.

After struggling through a day in Tokyo, Qi Shaoyu was finally defeated by reality. He used the few coins left in his pocket to buy a ticket, then boarded the train to Kamakura with a sour face and obvious reluctance.

Qi Shaoyu knocked on the address's door in the pouring rain.

The person who opened it had a face like someone owed him eight million.

He heard the man introduce himself expressionlessly:

"Hello, I'm Lu Youli, your childhood friend."

Qi Shaoyu: "?"

"Get lost."

Who was his childhood friend?

Qi Shaoyu later learned that this wasn't just some childhood friend. He was the nemesis his mom had sent to put him in his place.

"Qi Shaoyu, don't swear."

"I'll swear if I want."

"Say it again and I'll kiss you."

"..."

Qi Shaoyu spent the most miserable month of his life in Kamakura. When he finally got his ticket home, he almost cried with joy.

When his idiot friends came to meet him, they suddenly pointed at the cold-faced boy behind him, who was carrying a mountain of bags, and asked, "Bro Qi, who's that?"

Lu Youli: "His childhood friend."

Qi Shaoyu: "..."

No arguing with that. He really was his childhood friend.

Then, one rainy night much later, humid and sweltering,

his childhood friend climbed into his bed and pinned him down.

Lu Youli kept a straight face. "I'm scared. I need to hold you while we sleep."

Qi Shaoyu: Have you no shame?

Have you no shame at all?

1) Hotheaded young master bottom x sweet, scheming top

2) One-on-one, both characters' first times, a sweet healing romance with no relationship angst. The top's unrequited crush comes true.

3) Everyday-life story, slow burn. Both leads are adults when they first appear.

4) Campus story. They won't date before graduating high school. The story follows them from studying through working, with little focus on city life.

5) The island country appears at the beginning and end only because the plot requires it. The author has a big, red, patriotic heart (maximum survival instincts).

6) I really haven't been to the island country, but this story needs that atmosphere, so I've done my best to research the relevant details. If you spot any inconsistencies, just consider them part of my fictional setting. Thanks for understanding (bows).

7) There's a very low-profile BG couple in the story. If that bothers you, please don't read.

8) The story is complete, and anti-piracy protection is enabled.

9) Hotheaded doesn't mean hypermasculine! The bottom is a good boy, and this isn't a face-slapping power fantasy!

-- A Hundred Years of Love: Blurb --

The border between Dawa and Muller stretches for a thousand miles.

Ao Xu picked up a stunning beauty at a little tavern by the border marker and brought him along in his car.

The place was close to the border, full of all kinds of shady characters, and he hadn't planned on getting involved in other people's business.

But the beauty's pale skin practically glowed. He wore a smoky-blue shawl patterned with flowers and birds, his brows delicately furrowed, his slender figure like a frail willow drifting out of the waterways of Jiangnan.

He looked up, the tip of his tongue flicking away a shred of tobacco.

Damn, he was gorgeous.

.

Sheng Jingyi came to the border to look for someone.

After a series of twists and turns, he ended up staying at Boss Ao's guesthouse.

Ao Xu took care of him until he was completely at ease. Sheng Jingyi ate his food, wore his clothes, and even played with his dog.

Ao Xu figured he was basically keeping a wife.

The wild plateau winds howled. He wasn't very educated, and when he tried to ask for a place in Sheng Jingyi's life, he blushed bright red and could only manage, "Teacher Sheng, can I have a kiss?"

Sheng Jingyi was scared off.

Ao Xu: .

.

That night, Teacher Sheng was crying like a pear blossom in the rain.

He lay on the quilt, clutching a pillow, his long, slender fingers tinged pink, his voice hoarse and husky. "You promised we'd only kiss once!"

Ao Xu couldn't help kissing his earlobe. "Still got the energy to complain?"

#The desolate, bitter plateau is barren, but you came carrying the spring breeze and stirred up my heart.

Theme: Remember to keep your promises