Young master x young master
Childhood friends x childhood friends
The only son of a game company CEO preparing to inherit the business x the sole heir to a family enterprise
Xiao Bo'an and Bai Mingfei are each other's most important friends.
Their connection began in kindergarten, and their friendship lasted for more than ten years.
By the principle that just looking away was enough to get jealous, they somehow made it to high school with each other as their only friend.
Who at seventeen still sleeps cuddled up with a friend?
Who shares their entire chat history with a friend?
Who holds hands with a friend anywhere, anytime?
Who sets a friend's photo as their phone wallpaper?
Anyone who didn't know them would think they were dating.
Good news: they eventually did date.
Bad news: even after dating, nothing changed.
They held hands and hugged, and everyone thought nothing of it.
They put food on each other's plates, and everyone thought nothing of it.
They kissed, and everyone... immediately posted to their social feed: "I think those two are a couple. They even kissed today. Maybe they're dating."
That's right.
Maybe.
They were dating, but not a single person believed it.
.
Later, at a charity auction among A City's business elite, the chairman of Qianyi Group and the head of the Xiao family battled back and forth over a gold-inlaid jade carving made by a master artisan. They drove the price into the hundreds of millions, far beyond its true value. No one else bid; only those two kept competing.
Everyone laughed at how they were throwing money around, not knowing they'd wagered that whoever won the jade would propose to the other's family.
Later still, everyone in the business world knew the Xiao and Bai families were joining through marriage, and that the two family heads were marrying each other.
Those two never yielded an inch when it came to business. They seemed like sworn enemies, but no one had expected them to have this kind of relationship.
After they married, the two factions who'd once been at each other's throats changed their tune whenever the couple fought over business interests. The people on the left started calling the people on the right in-laws (they used to call them rivals), while the people on the right brought good wine and soft drinks (they used to bring laxatives). Everyone munched on melon seeds and watched the two men argue with stern faces until they were full just from snacking.
My guess is that President Bai is the one making it up to President Xiao again today.
No, maybe President Xiao is making it up to President Bai.
[A few little notes]
Bai Mingfei is the bottom.
One-on-one, age gap with the bottom younger. Focused more on romance, set in a realistic world with a slightly unrealistic premise.
P.S. The top won't use his identity to lecture at length about gender equality. No supporting character will get too much screen time, and there are no secondary couples.
Theme: Companionship is the longest-lasting declaration of love, and also the bluntest knife.
The deposit of the manuscript has been completed (so a new article will be opened)