My Childhood Friend Is Secretly in Love with Me Again

The person Li Yu hates most in this life is Cheng Yanshu.

To tell the story of their love-hate relationship, we have to go back to when Cheng Yanshu was only three months old.

That year, Li Yu was two. He went with his mother to visit the neighbors, where a chubby little baby lay in a cradle. Curious, Li Yu couldn't help poking his cheek.

That one poke caused a whole lot of trouble. The first time the baby saw Li Yu, he grabbed his hand tightly and then... put it in his mouth.

From then on, Cheng Yanshu stuck to him like glue.

Li Yu wasn't afraid of anything and became the little tyrant who beat up everyone in the family compound. There was only one person who gave him a headache: Cheng Yanshu, who followed him everywhere.

Li Yu couldn't take it anymore. "Follow me again and I'll beat you up!"

Cheng Yanshu hid behind the big elm tree in the courtyard, showing half a face that looked ready to cry. "Brother A Yu..."

When they grew a little older, Cheng Yanshu lived up to his name, growing into a handsome, upright young man who excelled in both conduct and academics. He and the troubled Li Yu were from two different worlds.

Li Yu looked at Cheng Yanshu, who had come to tutor him, grabbed him by the arm, and pinned him down on the bed. In a low voice, he threatened, "Stop meddling in my business or I'll beat you up."

Then one day, Li Yu came home from school to find the house next door completely empty.

Cheng Yanshu had left without even saying goodbye.

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Ten years later, at a reunion with friends, Li Yu got so drunk he could barely think straight. He set his sights on a handsome guy with broad shoulders and a slim waist, but things didn't go as planned: the man pinned him down instead.

The next day, he woke up, rubbing his aching waist as he swore. The man beside him pulled him into his arms, his voice low and rich with amusement. "Brother A Yu."

Li Yu's brain froze. He looked him over inch by inch, finding a familiar trace in his handsome features.

Li Yu gritted his teeth. "You son of a bitch!"

Was the man who had pinned him down and pounded into him all night really the same Cheng Yanshu who had once been as lovely as a little jade doll, so refined and gentle?

The guy just wouldn't stay gone!

He was so sick of Cheng Yanshu!

A foul-mouthed, hot-tempered tsundere bottom x a mild-mannered, devious top who isn't what he seems

[Yu is the yu in the word for wooden-headed.]

[He says "annoying," but means "in love."]

[His one-night stand is his childhood sweetheart, who has had a crush on him for years.]

Blurb written on 2024.8.3

Theme: Lovers will end up together