[Handsome, Short-Tempered Straight Bottom x Boyish, Nurturing Green-Tea Top]
Lin Jiayang and Shen Jiming have never gotten along. From childhood onward, they would start arguing if they exchanged more than a few words, and once they reached high school, they were even more clearly at odds, constantly butting heads.
What Lin Jiayang hates most is Shen Jiming putting on an act in front of adults. It makes all the teachers and students like him. Even the class beauty Lin Jiayang has a crush on confessed to Shen Jiming, only to be rejected.
What a show-off.
Then one day, after playing ball, Lin Jiayang discovered that his phone had accidentally sent a whole bunch of WeChat stickers from his pocket to Shen Jiming. They were the ones he used to gross out his close buddies... stickers saying “hubby.”
[Shen Jiming: Auntie Lin is taking us out to eat. Hurry up. Don't blame me if you get scolded; I did warn you.]
[Lin Jiayang: Hubby.jpg]
[Shen Jiming: ? Are you crazy? What trick are you trying to pull now?]
[Lin Jiayang: Hubby.jpg]
[Shen Jiming: Did you send that to the wrong person? Are you gay? I'm not interested in an Alpha-Alpha relationship.]
[Lin Jiayang: Hubby.jpg]
[Lin Jiayang: Hubby.jpg]
[Lin Jiayang: Hubby.jpg]
Lin Jiayang counted in disbelief. He had called him hubby twenty-eight times.
A straight man's world had just collapsed.
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Ever since accidentally sending the wrong stickers, Lin Jiayang had started avoiding Shen Jiming. But somehow, Shen Jiming was everywhere, haunting him like a ghost.
No matter what mischief Lin Jiayang got up to, Shen Jiming always caught him in the act. He wouldn't let him date, fight, or sleep in class. He even tried to control what kind of pants he wore, all under the excuse that he was looking after him on his mother's behalf.
At long last, after the college entrance exams were over, Lin Jiayang had just arranged to meet up with a pretty Omega he'd met online when Shen Jiming suddenly appeared and blocked him inside the house, refusing to let him go out.
Lin Jiayang had finally had enough.
Don't think he hadn't noticed that Shen Jiming had reported his love life to their parents. Meanwhile, Shen Jiming had received ten thousand love letters from Omegas, hadn't he?!
Now that they had graduated, why was he still acting like some holier-than-thou model student who swore he wouldn't date before adulthood?
“Shen, I've put up with you for long enough!” Lin Jiayang grabbed him by the collar, looking ready to tear him apart.
But Shen Jiming didn't so much as change his expression. “Online dating isn't reliable.”
“Then what is reliable?!”
Lin Jiayang had already raised his fist when Shen Jiming unexpectedly yanked him over, pinned him against the wall, lowered his head, and kissed him on the cheek.
Shen Jiming's expression was calm and his tone cool. He didn't look the least bit embarrassed about crossing a line, and what he said next left Lin Jiayang dumbfounded.
“Brother Yang, we've been together since we were kids. If you're going to date anyone, it should be me.”
Straight guy Lin Jiayang: “?!!!”
[Reading Guide]
* Both are each other's first and only partner. They are adults when they confirm their relationship.
* Double Alpha, lighthearted and sweet.
* Neither the top nor the bottom is perfect. The bottom has a bad temper, and the top is a bit of a masochist.
Theme: Resolving conflicts
