My Straight Best Friend Keeps Trying to Turn Me Gay!

Xu Yi opened his eyes and found himself lying in a man's bed. The man was a stranger, but handsome.

He had transmigrated into an esports novel and become the scumbag ex of the top-tier male lead. In the original story, the scumbag couldn't win the male lead's affection, so he got him drunk under false pretenses, pretended they'd slept together, and used that to force the male lead to take responsibility for him.

Even after they started dating, he didn't change his ways. He flirted around and caused trouble, leading to the male lead getting injured and nearly missing the peak of his career. Then the scumbag was the one who broke up with him, saying, "Being with you is too stressful."

Xu Yi: ??? Is that something a human being would say?!

But what was done was done. Xu Yi resolved to protect the top player's love life, change his miserable fate, keep him straight, and help Chinese esports thrive!

That was the plan:

First, keep up the scumbag act so the top player would hate him.

Then gradually make himself less noticeable, so the top player would forget him!

But after trying everything, Xu Yi was shocked to discover that the top player not only hadn't kept his distance, but was looking at him with increasingly smoldering eyes???

I'm straight! You're straight too, man!!

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Jiang Qihan, the novel's own author, had been bored with everything around him, himself included, after transmigrating into the protagonist. That was, until the scumbag vanished from his bed.

The person who should have been doing everything possible to pursue him had suddenly started avoiding him. Jiang Qihan couldn't help wondering: Had something really happened between them that night? Was he dissatisfied with how Jiang Qihan had performed?

Though the scumbag still seemed like a womanizer on the surface, he was actually awkward and inexperienced, unable to hide the purity and kindness that slipped out when he wasn't paying attention.

But that was nothing like the faithless scumbag in the original story.

For the first time, whether in the past or the present, Jiang Qihan felt such a powerful urge to possess someone, and that someone was only him.

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In the original story, the scumbag had resorted to every trick to get close to Jiang Qihan, even moving into the team base.

In reality, Xu Yi was working desperately to make money so he could move out and get away from Jiang Qihan.

He took every job he could find, seeming to have more work than the team's manager, until he landed a gig arranged by the league to film players' daily lives.

The subject was Jiang Qihan, and the requirements were: 24 hours, up close, nonstop filming.

Their separate floors became cohabitation. Jiang Qihan, who still had to get up early to work during the off-season, suddenly found himself in a good mood.

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At a team dinner, Xu Yi lost a game and was made to play truth or dare. But the question he drew was the one everyone already knew: his sexual orientation.

After a few rounds of drinks, Xu Yi answered with a perfectly serious expression. "I'm straight, completely straight. I'm straighter than National Highway 215!"

Jiang Qihan, who had personally written the scumbag persona: "?"

Xu Yi's childhood friend, who had been in love with him for over a decade: "???"

After another round, Jiang Qihan, the undisputed king of party games, actually lost. Without changing his expression, he drew the card whose corner was slightly bent.

The top player's sexual orientation? What a bombshell of a question! Everyone stared at him with sparkling eyes, holding their breath.

Jiang Qihan drawled, "I like purple."

Everyone: Who asked what color you like?!

Jiang Qihan raised his eyes to look at Xu Yi and added, with deep feeling, "Gay purple."

Xu Yi's eyes slowly widened: What purple???

= A dark, teasing top who's fine with living or dying any which way x a pure, oblivious bottom who has nothing but keeps fighting to live =

---Reading Guide---

1. Both leads transmigrate into a book. 1v1 sweet romance.

2. The bottom only admires the original male lead as a fan admires a top player.

3. The game is a 5v5 MOBA. The game and tournament setting are entirely fictional, but this is really just the backdrop. It's not an esports novel, and there won't be detailed, lengthy match descriptions.

4. I'll add more if I think of anything else~

Theme: Together, we can change the ending.