I'll Fish for Your Fish

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[The main story is complete]

Instinct told Jiang Zhinan that this handsome senior, whose face was always twisted into a baffling smile, was dangerous.

Yet the first time they met, Jiang Zhinan was the one who couldn't stop staring at him.

Then came the second time, the third time...

Later, time and again, Jiang Zhinan managed to stop himself at the last moment and pull the shirt slipping off Bo Shu's shoulder back up.

"Senior, we can just be friends."

Bo Shu's gaze fell beside Jiang Zhinan's reddened eyes. He smiled, reeling in his fishing line as he pulled the man on top of him down, and whispered with a sigh in his ear:

"I'm very flexible. Want to try?"

Bo Shu, who had studied dance for over a decade, raised his chin and offered himself as bait. "I can do all sorts of positions..."

Jiang Zhinan's perspective:

Only when he died, unnoticed, at thirty did Jiang Zhinan learn that he was merely a doomed ex-boyfriend and disposable tool in a novel's world, a stepping stone for the protagonist.

A hapless guy who got cheated on, then cheated on again, until he was a cuckold for the ages.

When he opened his eyes again, he was twenty.

He had meant to get out of the protagonist's life as quickly as possible. But a few days before he could finally break things off with his boyfriend from his previous life, Jiang Zhinan met Bo Shu, a senior at the same university as his boyfriend who was studying Chinese dance.

Bo Shu's perspective:

Bo Shu fell for someone in high school. He was a high school student then, and the person he liked was a year younger, still in middle school.

His own life was a mess, so Bo Shu never disturbed Jiang Zhinan. But without him realizing it, Jiang Zhinan had already fallen for someone else.

It was fine. He might be cold by nature, but when it came to Jiang Zhinan, he knew how to wish him well and keep his distance.

But just as he decided to stay hidden at the edge of Jiang Zhinan's view, he noticed cracks forming between Jiang Zhinan and his boyfriend?

Hm?

Had Jiang Zhinan finally realized he'd been turned into a cuckold?

Then... why keep holding back?

Good friend, I've been trying to hook you for so long. How about we try having sex first and falling in love later?

Original title: The Green-Hatted Hero Everyone Covets. A sweet, lighthearted read to enjoy with a meal.

As the title suggests, the male lead is a hapless guy who has been cheated on time and again. His ex-boyfriend from his previous life was the one who put the first green hat on him.

" The love interest has changed. Both are pure.

" They sleep together before falling in love. The male lead has already broken up before they do.

" Clear-headed but occasionally foolish, devoted and unhinged top Jiang Zhinan x lovelorn but aloof, proud and tsundere bottom Bo Shu.

" The one who fishes for hearts always gets caught. Who can tell who's seducing whom?

[Reader advisory: The two characters' perspectives have almost equal page time, though each has their own focus.]

Coming next, an ancient-set BL novel: The Villainous Immortal Lord Has Smashed My Wedding Hall Again

Straight-laced, unhinged villain immortal lord top x ruthless, seemingly docile and beautiful fox demon bottom

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[They tricked me into becoming the hero of the world, then bullied my benefactor while I was away.]

Yan Sheng is a little fox from the You Su fox clan, orphaned from birth. As a fox demon, he was born beautiful, and usually stayed in his cave to cultivate.

But one day, a marriage-alliance lottery between immortals and demons brought a stroke of terrible luck down upon him.

He was tasked with carrying the alliance between immortals and demons on his shoulders and traveling to the Upper Immortal Realm to marry another unlucky soul chosen by lot.

Fine. Yan Sheng tried to comfort himself. It didn't matter who married whom.

He was reluctant to give his heart, and the other person wasn't sincere either. But he never expected them to scheme for the nine tails he'd worked so hard to cultivate, all to save their true love.

Yan Sheng thought, Why should I? I couldn't even save the person I wanted to save. And you think you can use me to curry favor?

Then let's all just die.

Unexpectedly, he was reborn and returned to the time before the wedding, when the immortal clan's lottery had yet to choose his future husband.

And... that person was still alive.

Yan Sheng didn't waste a moment. He rushed out of his cave and hurried straight to the Upper Immortal Realm.

This time, it was still fine to marry anyone. But this time, he wanted that vicious thief from his previous life dead, and he wanted Yin Wuming to live.

Somehow, though, the carefree sword cultivator who always wore a smile in his previous life seemed to have gone mad long ago. He was going mad somewhere Yan Sheng couldn't see, and trying to get himself killed right in front of him.

"Little fox, have we met before?"

We have. You saved me, but you forgot.

Yan Sheng still didn't mention the debt of kindness from the past. He just held out his arms, asking to be carried, and said, "Immortal Lord, you've smashed my wedding hall twice before. Want to try stealing me away this time?"

[While I was gone, everyone bullied you.]

[Benefactor, this time, I'll protect you.]

·

Yin Wuming had come to this world on a mission: eliminate his target, who had been corrupted by evil spirits and turned into a killing tool after the world's spiritual veins were tainted. But after completing his mission and dying again and again, only to be reborn again and again, he'd lost count of how many times his bones had been stripped and his core cut out.

And this time, the System was gone too.

Yin Wuming: Are you kidding me?? You just leave without a word, and I'm still going to die, aren't I?

He opened his eyes to see the same inevitable death awaiting him. Yin Wuming was quiet for all of three seconds before looking for somewhere to die. Hang himself today, jump off a cliff tomorrow, a different method every day.

But unlike the scripts in all his previous rounds, this time he met a little fox who kept secretly looking at him. And the little fox was about to marry a scumbag who also happened to be his enemy.

So he offered a friendly suggestion: "Little fox, why don't you find someone else?"

Yan Sheng: "What's a someone else? Is it the kind of relationship where you and I sleep cuddled up together?"

Oh no. He'd been so busy petting the fox that he'd forgotten he was a villain.

Yin Wuming silently planned his next fake death for days, then finally managed to say, "I've got a tribulation to face. I don't know if you'll believe me."

Reborn Yan Sheng gritted his teeth. "I believe you."

"Then how about you wait until I come back from my tribulation, and we'll talk about this again?"

"All right."

Yin Wuming smiled in satisfaction. But when he opened his eyes again, he looked up at the towering form of a nine-tailed fox, pinning an Immortal Venerable down and beating him to a pulp. He fell silent.

What? You're saying the little fox saw me getting skinned and having my bones scraped clean?

Damn... no wonder my little fox went crazy.

[Happy ending. Gentle yet unhinged, occasionally scatterbrained top x beautiful, strong, pitiful, seemingly docile bottom who kills without blinking.]

[The previous life is an angst-filled tragedy; this time, we're aiming for sweet, sweet, sweet romance with a little angst.]

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Theme: You can't fall into the same pit twice.