As the child of a landlord with ten properties, Rang Chen started collecting rent for his mother at a young age. She was always out and about, surrounded by admirers.
During the rainy season, a cool, aloof, handsome man who seemed to live on dew moved in across the hall. He was a dentist in a white coat, cold-faced and cold-hearted, so Rang Chen wasn't very interested.
But he noticed his mother was coming home more often, though she wasn't heading to her darling son's room. Instead, she was going across the hall to check on the neighbor, and discreetly asking Rang Chen about the guy's personal life.
Alarm bells went off in Rang Chen's head. Given his mother's habit of dating people young and old...
Was this guy about to become my stepdad?
On a typhoon night, Rang Chen noticed that this "potential stepdad candidate" had left his window open. He went to help, but through a gap in the curtains, he accidentally witnessed a night of passion.
Instead of thinking about what he'd just seen, he should probably figure out how to tell his mother that she'd set her sights on a young gay man.
One day, his friends tricked him into playing Truth or Dare at the gay bar across the street, where he unexpectedly ran into the cool, aloof guy flirting with a pretty twink.
"By the Yuan River grow angelica, by the Li River orchids." Lu Suiyi's gold-rimmed glasses slid down his nose. He traced a finger over the other man's Adam's apple. "Want to come to my place and finish the next line?"
Rang Chen spilled his drink all over the floor...
The next day, he caught Lu Suiyi on his knees by the sink, making himself throw up for the fourth time. A kiss mark from the previous night still showed on his snow-white neck.
Rang Chen instinctively frowned, but Lu Suiyi just smiled at him. "Is it that disgusting? You seemed pretty engrossed that night."
"..."
Unable to defend himself, Rang Chen got straight to the point. "If you like men, don't accept my mom's kindness."
Lu Suiyi looked at him calmly. "Does Auntie like me?"
Rang Chen wrinkled his nose, feeling as if someone he hated had somehow ended up living a good life. "Who in the neighborhood doesn't like you?"
Put on your white coat and you're a proper person. Take it off and...
Speaking of taking it off... That night...
Damn it, what am I thinking?
"Is that so?" Lu Suiyi said. "Do you like me too?"
Rang Chen felt as if maggots were crawling all over him. "Are you insane?"
"I am." Lu Suiyi smiled. "The night you caught me, I was treating my condition."
What a load of nonsense! Like I'd believe that...
Until he accidentally found a medical report that had fallen off Lu Suiyi's desk.
Who would've thought you were addicted to, uh, that?!
This has got to be the most terrifying illness in the world!
Just then, Lu Suiyi leaned against the doorway and held up two fingers. "Little landlord, voyeurism is an illness too."
One day, Rang Chen woke up to Lu Suiyi telling him, "To treat this condition, you have to make yourself throw up and develop an aversion. You'll gradually get better."
Rang Chen rubbed the kiss mark on his neck. "Will you start hating me too?"
"..."
They'd agreed that each would get what he needed, and Lu Suiyi did stick to his promise. Apart from "treating the illness," he never let things go any further with the little landlord.
But no one can escape the law of falling for it after all...
Rang Chen grinned. "Baby, this is the greatest illness in the world."
"???"
Lu Suiyi lay flat with his eyes closed. The doctor never said it was contagious...
A tsundere, hot-tempered, secretly devoted puppy-like gong x a cold beauty who seems untouchable but is actually a refined, depraved, and deranged shou
(The shou is not a virgin, but the gong is. Sweet with a hint of angst, and a little melodramatic.)
[The synopsis, plot, and one-line summary are all provisional and may be revised later. Pre-release note dated 2025.4.29.]
Theme: May the world be free of harm
