Didn't We Agree We'd Definitely Break Up This Time?

My new novel next door, After I Deliberately Called My Crush “Hubby,” is now underway. Please add it to your collection~ Originally titled Hate You After This One Last Time, but I had to change it for reasons beyond my control T T [Terrible at expressing himself but secretly head-over-heels, a doting, fatherly, secretly obsessive top × a summer-sunshine bottom who melts the iceberg] After getting drunk for the 108th time, Xia Shiyun complained to his friends: “Seriously, I have to break up with Yu Wang this time!” “I can’t stand him anymore. What does he even have a mouth for?” “He doesn’t talk when he’s happy, and he doesn’t talk when he’s upset. We communicate entirely through telepathy... Isn’t that emotional abuse? I can’t take it!” “If I call out, even Xiao Ai replies, ‘I’m here.’ All he ever says is ‘Mm.’ Even Xiao Ai says one more word than he does!” “And don’t get me started on his hopelessly unfashionable clothes...” His friend sighed. “Sure, sure. But you say that every time, and you’ve never actually broken up with him. Aren’t you just asking for this?” Xia Shiyun’s drunken eyes flickered, bleary with tears as he whimpered, aggrieved: “But... he’s a rock climber. Waaaah QAQ” His friend: “...” You two are staying together forever. Thanks. Yu Wang is Xia Shiyun’s boyfriend, a climbing instructor with incredible finger strength and even more incredible core strength. Climbing instructor top × photographer bottom A few things to know: ① Terrible at expressing himself but secretly head-over-heels, a doting, fatherly, secretly obsessive top × a summer-sunshine bottom who melts the iceberg. They are each other’s firsts. ② The more they do it, the more they hate each other, and the more they love each other. ③ The top isn’t emotionally abusive. It’s a flaw in his personality, and he’ll gradually be trained out of it. ④ The top is tight-lipped at first, but later becomes a straight-shooting, shamelessly forward, clingy pervert. [2024.9.8] My upcoming novel, I Could Never Suck Up to a Pretty Gold Digger, is in the author’s collection. Please add it~ [An aggressive, obsessive rich hottie × a poor beauty with sky-high self-worth] Jing An is a bookish nerd who thinks the world of himself. He made it out of a poverty-stricken backwater and into one of the best universities in the country, becoming the county town’s golden child. Everyone envies his blind mother for having such a wonderful son, who’ll make sure she can enjoy a comfortable life someday. The moment Jing An set foot in City A, he made up his mind: he would work hard, buy a home in this city where every inch of land was worth a fortune, rise above the common crowd, marry a rich and beautiful wife, and bring his whole family there to live well. On his first day of school, everyone said Jing An had struck it lucky. His roommate was the son of City A’s richest man. Sure, he was a little moody, but that was just a common affliction of the privileged. Jing An only had to put up with him for a while, and his future would be set. When Jing An heard that one of his meals cost more than his family spent in an entire year, he rolled his eyes and said scornfully, “I hate rich kids who live off their families. What’s so great about spoiled brats like that? I’d never be friends with him!” His classmates exchanged glances, not daring to respond. But after seeing Yue Ming’s mind-boggling wealth with his own eyes, Jing An began to waver. His eyes widened. Money was one thing, but connections really were a scarce resource. The more friends you had, the more opportunities you got. If he befriended Yue Ming, wouldn’t that save him twenty years of hard work? So he smoothly changed his mind. He was going to be friends with Yue Ming! But he wasn’t going to grovel, either, and he didn’t think he was beneath Yue Ming. After all, he firmly believed he was destined for greatness. Besides... he was so good-looking. How could Yue Ming possibly turn him down? In other people’s eyes, Yue Ming was the favored child of heaven. Everything he could ever want was within easy reach. But he had a problem that had tormented him for years: he suffered from skin hunger, along with severe mysophobia. Yue Ming was at his wits’ end. Day and night, he was tormented by an emptiness that felt like thousands of ants gnawing at him. The scent of strangers made him nauseous, and when his condition flared up, his mental state became extremely unstable. On his first day of school, he saw his bumpkin roommate put a dirty, bulky old bag on his bed. His face darkened as he strode over and grabbed the bumpkin by the collar, barely managing to rein in his fury. The bumpkin turned around in confusion. Beneath those country clothes was a fair, delicate, beautiful face. His rustic outfit did nothing to detract from his looks; if anything, it gave him a special kind of innocence that made people itch to get closer. Yue Ming had no idea what brand of laundry detergent the bumpkin used, but he smelled unbelievably good. Yue Ming’s eyes turned red at once. Still held by the collar, Jing An looked at him in confusion and said gently, “Hi. I made your bed for you. No need to thank me.” He wondered to himself why city people had such a strange way of saying hello. Yue Ming gritted his teeth and froze in place. Deep down, Yue Ming looked down on this pretentious little bumpkin. But to his despair, he discovered that Jing An was the only person whose closeness he could stand. Whenever Jing An appeared, Yue Ming’s gaze would involuntarily cling to him, almost in a daze. Even when the bumpkin accidentally exposed a patch of skin, Yue Ming wanted to lick it and see what it tasted like. Yue Ming held himself back with all his might. His pride wouldn’t let him lick a vain little bumpkin like that. But the bumpkin was always right in front of him, teasing him until he could take no more. When his condition flared up, all his pride went out the window. - Jing An invited him to the cafeteria for a ten-yuan pick-your-own meal. Yue Ming gritted his teeth and ate it. Then he treated Jing An to a lavish meal in return. Jing An wore three pairs of old-man underwear for ten yuan, yet gritted his teeth and spent twenty yuan on a stall-bought birthday present for Yue Ming. Yue Ming’s temple throbbed as he thanked him, then turned around and bought Jing An a whole store’s worth of designer clothes. The little bumpkin had a sky-high sense of self-worth. He happily accepted whatever Yue Ming gave him, taking it all without a shred of guilt. Yue Ming was so exasperated he laughed. The bumpkin was so gullible he believed anything Yue Ming said. Yue Ming paid him for cuddles and hugs to ease his skin hunger, and Jing An even thanked him for it. Spoiled by Yue Ming, Jing An grew more and more beautiful. With excellent grades and expensive clothes, he was on track to become the CEO of a publicly listed company, and marrying a rich beauty seemed just around the corner. ...Wait. Something felt wrong. “Hey, why are you climbing into my bed?” Yue Ming held him and soothed him. “I’m a little cold.” Jing An nodded. A little while later, he asked, “Hey, why are you taking my clothes off and touching me?” Yue Ming replied calmly, “That’s how we do things in the city, baby.” Jing An blushed and fell silent. A little while later, he began to sob quietly. “Wait... why are you inside me?!” Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Jing An really did become someone extraordinary and gave his family a good life. But... why was he the rich beauty getting married off?! A few things to know: ① They are each other’s firsts. ② The bottom isn’t really a gold digger. He just has sky-high self-worth and thinks he deserves all this (hands on hips). ③ The top is a piece of work too. At first he thinks his husband is too country, but then gets impatient when he can’t lick him. ④ The bottom is simple and naturally clueless. He thinks any cuddling that isn’t normal is just a trendy city custom, and he’s very much a straight guy in temperament. ⑤ Two oddballs fall in love. They have tons of flaws, but they’re made for each other (?). The names and title may change once the novel is underway. Theme: Love gives people infinite courage.