What Should I Do If My Deskmate Has a Brooding Persona?

Xu Chengqi x Ying Jiawu

Cold, gloomy male ghost gong x genuinely sweet, silly, and beautiful shou

Blurb:

Ying Jiawu had a face that looked easy to bully, and a gentle personality to match. After transferring schools, he proactively befriended Xu Chengqi, the aloof top student rumored to be so cold and gloomy that nobody dared approach him, hoping to avoid being bullied.

Looking at that unapproachable face, Ying Jiawu worked up his courage and decided to face the challenge: he would become Xu Chengqi's sidekick!

It was his first time being someone's lackey, so perhaps he still had a lot to learn.

- Brought Xu Chengqi some milk.

- Xu Chengqi is allergic to milk.

- Helped Xu Chengqi write an essay.

- Xu Chengqi got his first-ever low grade on an essay.

Ying Jiawu: ...

Feeling that he was such a useless sidekick that he'd be abandoned sooner or later, Ying Jiawu spent all night thinking it over. He showed up with dark circles under his eyes and nearly arrived late.

But Xu Chengqi was standing at the school gate, watching him without a word. When he saw Ying Jiawu hurry over, he went inside.

Ying Jiawu: So that means he agrees?

Ying Jiawu continued to be Xu Chengqi's anxious, diligent sidekick and nobody bullied him. As his time in the role was about to end, he thanked Xu Chengqi sincerely and wished him all the best for the future.

But just as he was rambling on, someone suddenly gripped his wrist hard. The next second, he was shoved against the wall.

Ying Jiawu looked up in confusion, only to see Xu Chengqi's handsome, impassive face drawing closer as he gave a cold laugh.

"You don't actually think I really treated you like a lackey, do you?"

Ying Jiawu: Huh... didn't you?

The next moment, Xu Chengqi listed the perks he'd enjoyed as a sidekick, his face expressionless.

"You ate whatever you wanted."

"You played whatever games you wanted."

"You went wherever you wanted."

"Ying Jiawu... Do you think there's any lackey who's had it better than you?"

Ying Jiawu: I... I guess not?

Wait, had he really been living that comfortably?

2.

Xu Chengqi had never met anyone like Ying Jiawu before. He had a pretty face and deliberately gazed at him with eyes nobody could refuse.

He was adorable.

Whether he got every answer wrong while helping with homework or apologized with teary eyes after realizing his mistake, he was adorable.

Even the way he was too oblivious to realize he was welcome, and ran behind Xu Chengqi to ask for protection because he thought he was being bullied, was adorable.

When Xu Chengqi forgot his umbrella on a rainy day and came down with a fever, Ying Jiawu even thought it was his own fault.

Ying Jiawu's fault?

Xu Chengqi thought of how he'd stood in the rain all afternoon until he managed to catch a fever, how he'd known at a glance that Ying Jiawu's answers were wrong and handed them in anyway, how he'd deliberately made Ying Jiawu fall and kiss him, then watched him blush and apologize...

He nodded.

Ying Jiawu really was at fault.

His fault was approaching Xu Chengqi. He wasn't getting away for the rest of his life.

1. They both know exactly how to win each other over. A perfect match.

2. No side couples. The main characters are adults when they start dating.

3. Everything in the story is fictional. Do not imitate it or engage in self-harming behavior like the characters.

A plug for my upcoming story: Getting Back Together with My Ex on a Dating Show

Proud, aloof beauty shou x cool guy gong who says one thing but means another

1. Heartbeat Moment is a new dating show from Yuetai TV. It's drawn a lot of attention thanks to its star-studded cast.

Xu Jinghe is an obscure, third-rate screenwriter. A friend slipped him an invitation, and he ended up joining the cast. He considered himself boring and lazy, and had no interest in performing on camera.

His friend advised him, "Who says you have to go there to date? See if anyone's willing to invest in your scripts, and make some connections. Get it?"

So Xu Jinghe happily agreed to go.

The sky was blue and the clouds were white on the first day of filming, and all the guests gathered together.

Xu Jinghe stood in a corner, pretending to be invisible. But the moment he saw who had arrived, his eyes trembled and he gripped his suitcase tightly before texting his friend: "Is it still too late to leave?"

In the distance, a young man with sunglasses and dyed blond hair sat lazily on his suitcase. The moment he saw Xu Jinghe, he straightened up.

He was Xing Zhi, a popular drummer, and the ex-husband Xu Jinghe claimed had "been dead for years."

His friend had told him that an ex was no big deal, as long as they'd broken up properly. He shouldn't forget why he'd come.

After thinking about the scripts, then remembering the disastrous breakup years ago, when Xu Jinghe had blocked Xing Zhi on every platform, he silently took Xing Zhi off the block list.

2. On the first day Heartbeat Moment aired, it shot straight to the top of the trending searches.

#Xu Jinghe Is Actually a Civilian? # and #Xing Zhi Joins a Dating Show Out of Nowhere # were especially eye-catching.

People who had no idea what Xu Jinghe looked like clicked out of curiosity, were dazzled by his face, then stumbled back out in a daze.

"Wait, how did someone with a face like that never debut?"

"At what point did everyone involved go blind?"

Anyone familiar with the entertainment industry knew Xing Zhi well.

A drummer. A hot-tempered drummer. A hot-tempered drummer who was ridiculously handsome. Xing Zhi was all of those things.

He could play all kinds of drums, and he could write lyrics and compose music too. He'd built up a crowd of devoted motherly and girlfriend fans, but his love life remained a mystery.

According to someone who'd been in a band with Xing Zhi back then, he'd suffered a terrible heartbreak, and the person who hurt him was a man.

But after a few days of filming, people started noticing something strange. Whenever Xu Jinghe was involved, Xing Zhi acted very strangely.

If he cared, why did he tell the cameras he hadn't noticed Xu Jinghe?

If he didn't care, why did he always seem about to answer whenever a question about Xu Jinghe came up?

"I get it now. Xu Jinghe was the other person involved in that heartbreak, right?"

"I can't even remember my friends' birthdays, let alone their grades on the second mock exam in high school. How does Xing Zhi remember that?"

The night the hashtag #ThoseTwoDefinitelyHadSomethingGoingOn trended, Xing Zhi posted on Weibo: "On the bus leaving that day, I saw you wave to me."

The audience was baffled. They had no idea what Xing Zhi meant and thought it might be a lyric from a new song.

The next second, Xu Jinghe reposted the post.

"I know."

Theme: Because of each other, they became the best versions of themselves.