Unreasonable

[This might be my next novel]

During the years Xu Qingye was gone, Lou Xu kept searching for a reason. What had he rushed into, and at what point, that made Xu Qingye run away?

His first thought was, "I should have locked him up sooner." By the thirteenth, it was, "I shouldn't have forced him on April 3." Then came the thirty-seventh: "I shouldn't have confessed to him," and the fifty-fourth: "I shouldn't have let myself hope for so much from him."

The day Lou Xu blamed himself and wrote down item sixty-two, Xu Qingye came back.

The moment he opened the door and caught Xu Qingye's scent, Lou Xu knew he was still more partial to the first item.

Blurb from the top's perspective

Tags: Younger love interest, slow burn, personal kink, happy ending

A handsome, kind, adorable, irresistibly charming "straight" bottom who loves acting like the big brother x A romantic puppy of a top who was once devoted to rationalism above all else, but now puts Xu Qingye above everything, with an extremely intense personality

Theme: Love and hope