Passing Through in Silence

[Pirated copies are incomplete. Writing is hard, so thank you for supporting the official version.]

Original title: That Pretty Friend of My Brother's I'm Pursuing

My new novel next door, You Don't Have to Be Good, is complete!! An ABO romance about a wealthy family, an arranged marriage that turns to love. If you like that kind of thing, please check it out.

Before you start, Chi Yu is the gong and Lu Ning is the shou.

At his older brother's wedding, Chi Yu meets a handsome man named Lu Ning, his brother's friend and a model. He's very good-looking, but not very famous.

It isn't their first time meeting.

This time, when they take a group photo, Chi Yu can't help pointing his camera toward Lu Ning. His admiration for the man is impossible to hide through the lens. Later, his older brother calls him over to fill in as Lu Ning's photographer. He never expects to fall for him more and more as he takes his pictures, or to want to stay by Lu Ning's side forever.

He realizes he's fallen for Lu Ning.

He knows Lu Ning likes his older brother, but so what? His brother is already married. Lu Ning can only be his.

So he confesses directly: "Stop liking my brother. He's already married. Like me instead. I'm the one who'll marry you."

Lu Ning is in love with Chi Yu's older brother, so by extension he treats Chi Yu like a younger brother, too. He never expected that Chi Yu, a famous photographer who made a name for himself at a young age, would volunteer to photograph a little-known model like him. Even less did he expect Chi Yu to confess to him one day.

Usually calm and collected, Lu Ning loses his footing that day, almost literally. He tells Chi Yu, "Don't joke like that."

But Chi Yu says, "What kind of joke is that serious?"

Lu Ning thinks Chi Yu is young and still a kid, so he puts up with all his immature behavior and ideas. It isn't until one day, when Chi Yu pins him down and he can't move, that he realizes how serious things have gotten.

Lu Ning: "I treated you like my little brother, and you want to sleep with me?"

Chi Yu smiles. "I never thought of you as my older brother."

A devoted, direct, younger gong x a gentle, cool beauty shou

Photographer x model

One became famous at a young age, while the other remained unknown for years. A story of how they end up shining together.

[Reading Guide]

1. Short, 1v1, happy ending.

2. A story of healing, with a direct younger gong and a six-year age gap. Gong is 22, shou is 28, both are each other's first.

3. Yes, the shou liked the gong's older brother for many years, but the older brother is straight and married. The shou eventually moves on.

Theme: We'll all become better people.