Earthquake Belt

You An had imagined countless ways they might reunite, but never expected it to happen at a time like this...

His head was spinning and his body wouldn't obey him. When he realized someone had their eye on him and tried to leave, someone grabbed both his arms. The voice he'd longed to hear rang in his ears again after five years, but it no longer held the tenderness and affection he remembered. All that remained was cold detachment. "If you don't have two pairs of eyes, then watch your own glass."

Yu Zhao couldn't understand. The person who had so coldly and firmly broken up with him back then had kept the plain platinum ring he'd never gotten the chance to give him five years ago, wearing it as a necklace. Yu Zhao gripped You An by the throat, their hair tangled together. His aura was fierce; all his youthful gentleness had vanished. His voice was cold as ice. "Why are you wearing it? What gives you the right to wear my things and let someone else touch you?"

When eighteen-year-old Yu Zhao saw You An hurt after a fight, he didn't know what had happened, but still helped bandage his wounds, frowning as he nagged him the whole time. But when twenty-three-year-old Yu Zhao saw You An covered in injuries because of some stupid pendant, he only bandaged him with a stiff expression, sneering as he did. "You were the one who said we were over. Why are you so hung up on something I didn't even want? Playing the victim doesn't work on me anymore."

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When they broke up, You An said he and Yu Zhao were different kinds of people. Yu Zhao believed You An had his reasons. He was willing to wait and wanted You An to come back to him on his own. But when Yu Zhao saw You An going in and out with another man, he could no longer hold back. He forced his way in and sneered, "You and I aren't alike? So you and he are, then?"

A few notes:

1. Both leads are each other's first, one-on-one romance, with no secondary couples, though there will be some cannon fodder later.

2. Told in chronological order, with a bit of melodrama.

3. They are both adults when they get together, with no problematic age issues.

4. A slow-burn romance.

Theme: Love gathers drop by drop until it becomes an ocean