I'll Teach My Boyfriend How to Date

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1.

Xie Yanzhi grew up surrounded by love and freedom. He always got what he wanted, and his life motto was, “If you like something, go after it.” Athletic and trained in martial arts, he was the “tough guy” in his friends’ eyes, the kind who could knock someone flat with one punch. But after returning from overseas and joining his family’s entertainment company, he got caught in a setup at a drinking party. He’d just finished beating someone up when he met Lu Shiyan.

He immediately hid behind the man, trembling and looking pitiful. “He, he tried to assault me.”

The middle-aged man he’d beaten had a swollen, piglike face and managed to twitch his lips with difficulty.

An eerie silence fell over everyone present.

Xie Yanzhi fell for Lu Shiyan at first sight and announced the “happy news” that he was going to be in love in their group chat that very night.

Friend A: Rumor has it he was born cold and doesn’t know how to date.

Xie Yanzhi: No problem. I can teach him.

Friend B: How can you teach him when you’ve never dated anyone yourself?

Xie Yanzhi: I’ll figure it out as I go.

Later, Xie Yanzhi caught someone drugging Lu Shiyan and decided to seize the opportunity.

The morning after, Xie Yanzhi pretended to be troubled. “I know last night was an accident, but I still have to take responsibility. We can start by dating.”

Lu Shiyan answered frankly, “I don’t know how to date.”

Xie Yanzhi smiled. “I’ll teach you. It’s easy. You’ll get the hang of it in no time.”

2.

Lu Shiyan was born with everything people envied, but lacked emotions by nature. He was like a robot programmed to follow the rules he’d been taught. To others, he was always a cold, lifeless person.

Lu Shiyan had always known his emotions were different from other people’s, and had accepted that he’d never fall in love or get married.

But after a twist of fate brought them together for one night, he and Xie Yanzhi began dating for a year.

He didn’t understand love, and thought of it only as a responsibility.

His partner was uninhibited and straightforward. He taught Lu Shiyan how to date, and asked him to kiss, cuddle, and say sweet things.

Lu Shiyan studied hard to be a good boyfriend and did everything he was told.

He assumed they’d go their separate ways after a year, but little by little, he came to understand love, and began to feel anxious and afraid because of it.

Lu Shiyan didn’t know what love was supposed to look like for other people. But he thought that if love had a name, his would be Xie Yanzhi.

3.

Before they started dating, Xie Yanzhi’s friends said Lu Shiyan wouldn’t like anyone and urged him to give up.

Xie Yanzhi answered confidently: Am I not lovable?

After they got together, his older brother didn’t approve of their relationship and advised him not to get tangled up with Lu Shiyan.

Xie Yanzhi declared possessively: We’re meant to be tangled up for the rest of our lives. He’s supposed to belong to me alone.

4.

Later, Lu Shiyan visited the set, and Xin Luo wanted to cast him as the lead in his next movie. Xie Yanzhi was the first to object.

Xin Luo: Even if he acts in movies, he won’t take your job. You’re different types.

Xie Yanzhi: Still no. There’ll be lots of fans calling him their husband. I’m the only one who gets to call him that.

Xin Luo: ...

[Emotionally Deficient Top x Bright, Confident Bottom]

Reader’s Guide:

1. Modern alternate universe, where same-sex marriage is legal.

2. The top has no illness. His emotional deficiency is inborn, an author-created setting. The couple’s love is intense because the author likes them to be absolutely devoted to each other.

3. The story features the entertainment industry, and the bottom is an actor. The author isn’t a celebrity fan, and the characters aren’t based on real people, so don’t associate them with anyone. The focus is on romance.

4. The top is older. One-on-one, and they only have each other from beginning to end.

5. The entire story is already written. Updates are every other day for now, and daily when there’s a ranking event.

Coming Soon: When My Virtual Partner Became My Secret Crush

[Mutual pining, outgoing top x introverted bottom]

Lin Xi had always been quiet. People called him introverted and aloof, and he stayed quiet and didn’t speak.

That changed when he met Shen Yuxing at university. Shen excelled at everything, was well-liked, laughed with an easy confidence, and even noticed Lin Xi, telling him, “Lin Xi, you’re like a ray of light.”

Lin Xi thought: You’re the light, so dazzling.

Later, Lin Xi fell for Shen Yuxing and secretly loved him for a long time, until they lost touch after graduation.

One day, Lin Xi heard a promotional ad for a game and thought the voice of its secret character sounded a lot like Shen Yuxing’s.

He couldn’t wait to download the game. Though he’d never spent money on entertainment before, he started buying in-game currency, and finally managed to draw the secret character among tens of millions of players.

Lin Xi never did any quests. He treated the virtual character as if he were Shen Yuxing, chatting with him every day and having him use Shen Yuxing’s voice to say the things Lin Xi longed to hear, giving his yearning and affection somewhere to go.

He thought he’d never see Shen Yuxing again, but it turned out they were closer than he’d imagined, and one day they met again.

And what he never expected was that the virtual character in the game was actually Shen Yuxing, the man he’d never stopped thinking about.

At university, Shen Yuxing fell in love with someone. He wanted to confess before graduation, but realized the other person could never love him back, so he could only bury his unspoken feelings in his heart.

After graduating, he and a friend started a game company. His friend developed a dating game and had him serve as its secret character.

Shen Yuxing had planned to leave it to someone else, but then he noticed that the player who drew him was interesting. They reminded him of Lin Xi, the person who’d always quietly stayed by his side and gazed at him with admiration.

Later, he discovered that the player was Lin Xi, the person he’d always kept in his heart.

You are a ray of light slipping through the trees on a summer afternoon. I see you.

Theme: Stay true to yourself!