I Entered a BL World and Topped a Straight Guy

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Long-haired, sharp-tongued, dominant beauty top x energetic, well-built puppy-like handsome bottom (✔)

Cruel, suspicious, beautiful-but-tragic top x sunny, cheerful walking disaster bottom (✔?)

The proper title of this novel is "Inverted Pleasure".

[One-on-one romance, both leads' first sexual partners, bickering couple, enemies-to-lovers]

(The cover and character cards were commissioned. Feel free to enjoy them as supplementary material~)

Qi Yanqing never in his wildest dreams imagined that he would transmigrate into a BL world full of gay men. The pairings were so outrageous that every three steps there was a couple kissing passionately, and every nine steps another pair was half-undressed. The scenes were downright indescribable.

...Why did he have to become part of someone else's play?

But it wasn't a big problem. Thanks to all these lovesick fools with more money than sense, he was amassing wealth and power much faster than he had in the real world.

As long as he ignored a few scenes that were unpleasant to the eyes and ears, he could calmly enjoy their assets, then kick the lovesick couples who'd been madly in love with each other out onto the street to live on love alone.

With the attitude that you should make the best of things, Qi Yanqing was living quite comfortably. But when he was enjoying a rare moment of peace in the break room for the nth time, tea cup in hand, the suggestive sounds coming from the nearby restroom for the n+1th time finally pushed him to his limit.

How could he get out of this damned world?!

Just as he was despairing, a young man ran up from the stairwell and stared at the locked restroom door with the same look of despair.

Their eyes met. The other man suddenly teared up. "Could it be... you transmigrated here too?"

Qi Yanqing: "...Yes."

The other man's face lit up with the excitement of a spy meeting his contact. He even seemed about to give him a huge hug. "Sob, sob, this world finally has a normal person! You know, you're the only woman I've met in the last two months..."

Before he could finish, a cheerful voice suddenly sounded out of thin air. "System 4843 at your service! We've found two handsome guys without partners! Please enter the scenario: The Room You Can't Leave Unless You Do XX!"

The other man's smile slowly vanished. "...Wait, you're a guy?"

Qi Yanqing touched his beautiful, androgynous face and long curls, and gave him a pitying look. "If you don't need your eyes, you can donate them to someone who does."

"We already went easy on you newbies with this scenario!"

The System, ignored without mercy, flew into a helpless rage. "There are also scenarios like 'The Lazy Stepdad Gets Spoiled by a Big Shot After Joining a Family Variety Show' and 'An International Student in North America Becomes President Gu's Pregnant Runaway Lover'..."

Chen Shuo: "I don't understand, but it sounds like the whispers of some ancient Lovecraftian god..."

Qi Yanqing: "Didn't I kick that guy surnamed Gu out of the company? How does he still have money to keep a lover?"

"Aaaah! What did you do to the male lead?!"

The System fell silent for three seconds, then shrieked and ran off, leaving the two of them staring at each other without a word.

"..." Chen Shuo cautiously took two steps back and hurried to make his position clear, hoping to avoid trouble. "Um... sis... bro, I'm straight.

"I'm not into guys!"

Qi Yanqing: "...Do you think I'm into this?"

One morning, several months later, someone clung tightly to Qi Yanqing's waist and wouldn't let go, rubbing his fluffy head against the hand above him. An invisible tail wagged wildly behind him.

"Qi Yanqing, why can't I rub your head?"

"Qi Yanqing, you haven't hugged me today!"

"Qi Yanqing, I want a kiss..."

"Stop, stop, stop!" Qi Yanqing had had enough. He clapped a hand over Chen Shuo's approaching lips. "It's only been a few hours since we did it yesterday. Are you ever going to be satisfied?"

Chen Shuo licked the other man's palm with a wounded look. "It's already been a few hours! Could it be... you're tired of me already?"

Before Qi Yanqing could answer, the other man quickly grabbed his wrist and slid it inside his collar. "You don't like this anymore either?"

"This, this, and this..."

His palm glided over a full, firm chest, guided along a lean, powerful waist, and finally came to rest on the man's taut, defined abs.

"Could it be you don't like any of this anymore?"

"You!" Qi Yanqing meant to pull his hand back without mercy, but couldn't bring himself to let go of the sensation beneath his palm. Gritting his teeth, he said, "Didn't you insist you were straight before?"

"What a shame." Chen Shuo leaned closer and kissed his cheek, revealing two pointed canine teeth. "I don't like men or women anymore.

"Qi Yanqing, I only like you."

The other man frowned in confusion. "When did I stop counting as human to you?"

Chen Shuo: "..."

The scowl didn't go away. It simply moved to someone else's face.

Can't you have even a little romance?!

*

Beautiful, clever, proud, like a peacock perched above everyone else and looking down on the world. That was Chen Shuo's first impression of Qi Yanqing.

Chen Shuo: "Who could put up with someone who's only redeeming feature is his good looks, and whose tongue is more poisonous than two pounds of arsenic?"

Some time later.

Chen Shuo: "...Actually, he's kind of cute."

Some time after that.

Chen Shuo clutched his racing heart. "...Not only is he cute, but why do I think his lips look so kissable?"

Would one kiss really kill him?

Much later...

On a night when things got particularly heated, Chen Shuo hummed a tune as he expertly blow-dried someone's hair, his body covered in marks. He took the opportunity to admire the red ring around the other man's wrist, earning two murderous glares.

"Ahem." Chen Shuo tried hard to suppress his grin and obediently bowed his head in apology. "Sorry, I was a bit rough just now."

But he'd do it again!

Luckily, the breeze from above was comfortable enough. Qi Yanqing took the tea, which was at just the right temperature, and leaned back, deciding to forgive Chen Shuo for now. "Are you satisfied now?"

Satisfied? He was more than satisfied.

The scent of iris shampoo filled the air. Chen Shuo brought a few strands of black hair to his nose and took a deep breath.

"Ah, you smell so good!"

The scent of his hair wasn't enough. Chen Shuo put down the hair dryer and couldn't resist wrapping his arms around Qi Yanqing from behind, burying his face in the back of his neck. He mumbled, "Qi Yanqing, I love you so much..."

The person in his arms seemed to go rigid for a moment. After a long pause, a faint voice, completely unlike his usual one, finally came out. "...Why?"

Chen Shuo, the pure-love warrior, immediately got fired up and began preaching at length. "Because fate brought us together. We're made for each other, destined to spend our lives together..."

"How could that be possible?" Chen Shuo couldn't see Qi Yanqing's expression, but his tone was once again full of its usual sarcasm. "How old are you, and you still believe in things that only fool little kids?

"Even if this fate you speak of really exists, what makes you think it will turn out the way you want?"

"Then I'll break it. If fate doesn't go my way, how can it be called fate?"

Qi Yanqing: "..."

What a shameless answer!

He opened his mouth, about to say more, but the strong arms around him slowly tightened, veins rising beneath the skin. Their grip left no room for argument.

"I know better than anyone what I like and what I want. Once I've decided on something, nothing can stop me.

"Qi Yanqing, do you know the ultimate meaning of pure love? It's when two people belong to each other completely, and to no one else."

Chen Shuo took his hand and kissed his long, pale fingertips.

"Qi Yanqing, I'm yours. My body and soul belong only to you."

Chen Shuo took his ring finger into his mouth, his canine teeth pressing down just enough to leave a red ring of teeth marks.

"So you can only belong to me, too."

A few additional notes:

1. One-on-one romance. Both the top and bottom are absolutely pure in body and heart, and each is the other's first love.

2. They're a bickering couple: a tsundere who says one thing but means another, and an affectionate kissing fiend. They take turns making moves, so whoever gets embarrassed loses! Neither one has an absolute advantage in the relationship or their standing as a couple.

3. The characters' values don't represent the author's. The novel plays around with some classic BL tropes, and the protagonists' attitude toward them doesn't represent the author's attitude. (I enjoy a lot of these tropes too, okay!) The author is just a faithful recorder of the story.

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