The Honest Straight Guy His Childhood Friends Are Fighting Over

My name is Su Li. I'm an utterly ordinary, completely average straight guy.

I have three childhood friends. We were inseparable growing up, but after they left Wanlin Alley, we gradually lost touch.

When I left Wanlin Alley for college, I ran into all three of them again in a strange, bustling city.

We still relied on each other.

But I realized that this reliance seemed to have gone beyond friendship.

They were all messed up, and not a little bit.

*

My first childhood friend is a rich second-generation guy who's rumored to be handsome, wealthy, fit, and emotionally intelligent.

But even though he's quite the catch, with countless admirers after him, he's the typical guy who's been through a thousand flowers without a single leaf sticking to him.

When I realized that the way I acted with him was too intimate and was making his admirers unhappy, I suggested we keep our distance.

But he started acting strangely, constantly bombarding me with messages and even waiting outside my place in the rain...

One day, he got drunk and kissed me while holding me in his arms.

I figured he was blind and had mistaken me for one of his admirers...

*

My second childhood friend is the gentlest, most gentlemanly type, like the older boy next door. He's always taken care of me, and since I was little, I've looked up to him as the brother I'm closest to.

But that doesn't stop me from thinking there's something wrong with him.

He's great in every way, but he has some rather shady tastes.

One day, I accidentally walked into the room he always kept locked and saw my pictures covering every wall...

I have to stay away from him.

*

My third childhood friend is a genius with an angel's face. He stood out among the snot-nosed kids from a young age, loves anything challenging, and is carefree and romantic.

That day, he pulled me into a room, his innocent blue eyes blinking at me. With his face and ears red, he took all kinds of toys out of a box and, while shedding tears, innocently and plaintively asked me how to use them...

Sure enough, beautiful men are the scariest. I guess I'll have to run for it.

*

My three childhood friends have recently been plotting together to figure out how to turn me gay.

I packed my bags in the middle of the night and prepared to run away.

At the very last second before I boarded the plane, they came after me with a huge entourage. I had nowhere to hide, and they caught me by the wrist.

A voice behind me dropped low, laced with a mocking laugh and a hint of lingering anger.

"Big Brother, you're really heartless. Were you actually planning to leave without saying goodbye?"

After that...

The childhood friends:

1. A stubborn, sharp-tongued rich kid with a rebellious streak

2. A gentle-seeming, gloomy, obsessive neighbor who's like a brother

3. A romantic, younger lunatic

[Elements: Everyone dotes on the protagonist, face-slapping comeuppance, possessive love, from universally disliked to universally adored, turning a straight guy gay, competing suitors, a battlefield of romantic rivals]

[Reader notes]

1. The blurb is written in first person; the novel itself is in third person, from the bottom's point of view.

2. A melodramatic, universally adored protagonist at the center of the story. All the tops are virgins and have never been in a relationship.

3. Open ending, with romance in stages.

My next novel will launch as soon as this one ends. It's another universally adored story, tentatively titled The Villainous Cannon Fodder of the Elite Boys' School Is Universally Adored. Here's the blurb. Please add it to your collection. Thanks for your support, mwah~

Qionghua Academy is an elite boarding school for the sons of the powerful, celebrities, and politicians. Its social hierarchy is strict, and students are divided into ranks according to their power and status.

Yet the school has a group of specially admitted top students who boost its university admissions rate. The most single-minded among them is a beautiful, stubborn young man who is the story's protagonist and bottom.

Jian Yu is unlucky enough to transmigrate into the role of the protagonist's contrast: a vicious cannon-fodder villain.

He can only survive by staying close to the protagonist, and must do his best to highlight the protagonist's kindness and goodness.

Jian Yu, who was nicknamed "Prince Disease" as a child and was extremely spoiled: That's just what I wanted. There's no way I'm going to be kind.

*

Jian Yu beat up an idiot top student whom the protagonist had worked hard to help.

In the dark, damp gym equipment room, the protagonist was red-eyed and indignant. Jian Yu keenly noticed the F4 had already pushed the door open and were coming closer.

His jade-white fingers held a bottle of juice. He tilted it, pouring the juice all over the trembling top student's face.

Jian Yu covered his mouth in surprise, his beautiful eyes wide: "Oh, my hand slipped."

Cruel and affected.

He frowned in disgust and even took a step back, afraid a drop of water from the other boy's hair might land on his clean leather shoes.

Jian Yu thought he looked absolutely loathsome, wicked to the core.

Who knew the approaching F4 wouldn't spare the top student even a glance? Their dark eyes stared straight at Jian Yu, full of something hard to name.

Darkness, longing. Their Adam's apples bobbed.

They watched Jian Yu's crimson lips move as he spat out one vicious remark after another. They only wanted to lean in and bite him hard, then watch him breathe with his tongue peeking out.

Preferably as he cried aloud...

*

Later, Jian Yu clearly felt that he was being targeted.

The F4 no longer needed him as their lackey.

They didn't even need him to get out of bed...

The tops:

1. A cocky playboy

2. A gloomy, unhinged obsessive

3. A younger, puppy-like athletic boy

4. A gentle older student from next door

Theme: Stay true to yourself.