You Look More Like Him with Glasses

(Revising the story. Updates at the end of October.)

Deceptive beauty bottom x substitute-turned-real-boyfriend top | The title is a little messed up, but it has a happy ending.

1.

At the start of his third year of college, Chen Yao gradually seduced a naive underclassman from a mountain village. After they started dating, he even gave him a pair of glasses and always asked him to wear them in bed.

From friends to lovers, every one of Si Yan's many firsts involved Chen Yao. Chen Yao funded his education, taught him how to kiss, and, when passion got the better of him, would say he loved him with flushed cheeks. Si Yan cherished Chen Yao with all his heart and gave him everything in return, until he saw a video.

In it, high schooler Chen Yao kissed someone else, his face flushed and his eyelashes trembling with embarrassment.

That person looked almost exactly like Si Yan, right down to the familiar black-rimmed glasses on his nose.

When his actions were exposed, Chen Yao simply admitted it, then vanished without a trace.

2.

Three years later, Si Yan had become a prominent figure at the top of society.

Meanwhile, after his family fell on hard times, Chen Yao had no choice but to sing for money in a bar.

On the day they met again, Si Yan saw Chen Yao leaning against a male customer's chest and drinking with him. As they flirted, Chen Yao put a pair of glasses on the man.

They were still the same pair from back then!

Furious, Si Yan called Chen Yao out for shamelessly using him as a substitute.

But Chen Yao only froze for a moment, then pushed the glasses onto Si Yan's face and hooked an arm around his neck, drunk. “You look more like him with glasses on. Could you sleep with me one more time?”

It was absurd, but they ended up in bed together again, more than once.

3.

Si Yan hated that his body only responded to one liar. Full of resentment, he paid to buy Chen Yao's nights, using force to make the person beneath him understand exactly who he was.

After several days in a daze, Chen Yao left without taking a cent and disappeared again.

Only then did Si Yan learn about Chen Yao's dark past and that his first love had been dead for a long time. There was no helping it: even more than he hated him, he loved him.

Even though Chen Yao had once molded him into someone else, and even though Chen Yao might have spent every minute with him thinking about that other person.

Si Yan traveled a thousand miles to find Chen Yao, his eyes red.

“Yao Yao, can we start over?”

“It's okay if you can't forget him. I only need half a place in your heart.”

[Guide and content warnings]

1. Cold, unfeeling, slow-to-realize-the-truth deceptive beauty bottom x devoted, groveling top who fails at going dark

2. Includes melodramatic tropes such as substitutes, first loves, brief amnesia, and mild mental illness.

3. The bottom is exceptionally beautiful, a seductive type, a little spoiled, and loved by many. Later in the story, he livestreams. The top is doglike: an innocent puppy early on, a stubborn, neurotic mad dog in the middle, and a pitiful but scheming big dog later.

4. The story roughly follows the blurb's order. The early part is about the deceptive beauty seducing and sleeping with an innocent young man. The middle and later parts follow the two as they become entangled until they fall in love.

5. Both leads are sexually exclusive. The top has only been with the bottom, while the bottom has had two relationships. The bottom is genuinely deceitful early on and tricks the top into dating him. Later, he truly falls in love with the top, and they really do get a happy ending.

[If you can't handle a first love who died young, this isn't for you. The early chapters include memories of the bottom and his first love.]

[The top's feelings are bittersweet. After their reunion, he is somewhat coercive toward the bottom. The story focuses on their relationship, but the subject matter is a little twisted. Fans who are very particular about their favorite character should proceed with caution.]

Theme: I still love you.