When He Breaks Up

[Next up: My Ex-Boyfriend Wants to Get Back Together. Blurb at the very end.]

Blurb:

At their undergraduate graduation party, Qin Yinan confessed to Xu Fu during the closing video, and they officially became a couple.

After two years of steady, uneventful love, Xu Fu thought their relationship was secure. Then he saw Qin Yinan's chat history with a client, and lost all hope.

On the day they broke up, Xu Fu was drenched outside the school gates.

He Yue held an umbrella over him, shielding him from all the misery.

He Yue saw Xu Fu again on the first day after returning to the country. When he heard Xu Fu had just broken up, he simply replied, "Good."

Much later, Xu Fu happened to recall that day. "Why did you seem so unmoved back then?"

He Yue hinted, "I got carried away with my triumph."

The truth was, he had been waiting for a long time, waiting for Xu Fu to break up.

1. Unrequited love, a new love interest, writing practice, everyday life. Probably around a hundred thousand words.

2. I got inspired while scrolling through videos late at night and started writing this, so I'm jumping the queue.

3. The story opens with a breakup.

My Ex-Boyfriend Wants to Get Back Together

[Arrogant, occasionally childish, sharp-tongued but unbelievably softhearted singer seme who talks himself into falling in love x resilient, exceptionally capable, and hard on himself artist uke]

1. On a pouring rainy night, Shang Zhou finished making dinner as usual and prepared to leave before the villa's owner woke up. But as he turned a corner, he bumped into a broad chest.

Shang Zhou looked up and froze for a moment at the sight of that face.

Lu Yuran flicked the baseball cap Shang Zhou was wearing, then called his manager. His tone was completely flat. "Did you forget to take something with you when you left?"

Manager: "???"

Lu Yuran spoke to Brother Zhao, but his eyes never left Shang Zhou. "A bag of trash."

2. After being dumped without warning back then, Shang Zhou assumed Lu Yuran never wanted to see him again and decided to quit.

Unexpectedly, Lu Yuran refused, saying, "I'm not done messing with you yet."

That night, however, three months' pay appeared in Shang Zhou's account.

Not long afterward, Shang Zhou discovered that the house he was renting also belonged to Lu Yuran.

And then nearly everything Shang Zhou owned, including Shang Zhou himself, was taken over by the name Lu Yuran.

Shang Zhou: "???"

By the time Shang Zhou realized something was wrong, Lu Yuran had him in his arms, and he no longer had the strength to ask why.

[He's still going to mess with him. Just somewhere else.]

3. Bonus Scene

After discussing some business with Lu Yuran, the manager walked half a mile before remembering that the last time he forgot to take out the trash, Lu Yuran had chewed him out in the middle of the night. He turned back and happened to see Lu Yuran leaving the villa to throw something away.

The manager tried to take it from him, but Lu Yuran stopped him. "It's household trash. I'll throw it out myself."

The manager had barely started feeling awkward when the domestic assistant he'd hired not long ago emerged from the villa, clothes obviously too big and all crumpled, with marks scattered over his body.

Manager: "??!"

[My world is collapsing] [What do I do when my domestic assistant, who has every skill maxed out and makes me feel completely secure, gets taken by my own pig of a client?] [A manager's guide to becoming a tool for 108 kinds of couple play]

Theme: Learn patience and how to wait.