The Straight Guy's Sidekick at the Elite Academy

Qi Yang transmigrates into a novel about an elite academy, becoming a disposable sidekick in the orbit of F4.

As a sidekick, he falls in love at first sight with the male lead and foolishly thinks he can compete with F4. In the end, F4 joins forces to get rid of him.

After arriving in the book, Qi Yang tries hard to suck up to F4 to save his own skin, while pretending to be straight.

After a while, he can joke around with F4 on the basketball court like one of the guys, and has everyone convinced he's straight.

Qi Yang thinks he's safe.

What Qi Yang doesn't know is that countless eyes are watching him from the corners of the school.

The cotton swab he used to wipe away blood after getting hurt playing basketball, the fizzy drink he pressed to his collarbone to cool off after sweating, the towel he tossed into the locker room after drying his wet hair, the plastic stick from a lollipop he'd bitten hard enough to leave teeth marks...

They keep mysteriously disappearing.

Qi Yang doesn't pay it any mind.

He's always been careless, so he blames it on his bad memory.

Until one day.

His good buddy, F1, puts an arm around his shoulder, gives him puppy-dog eyes, and asks for the half-eaten oden skewer in his hand.

"I already bit it. Doesn't that gross you out?" Qi Yang asks.

"We're both guys. What's there to worry about?" F1 says.

Qi Yang casually hands F1 the food with his bite marks on it. Then, by accident, he sees the contact name F1 has saved for him on his unlocked phone:

"My Dear Wife."

Pairing: an athletic, healthy, handsome, adorable, innocent high school boy who is the bottom x a cool, aloof, bking ice prince who is hopelessly in love and utterly obsessive, the top

Coming soon: After the Top Idol Switches to Tennis:

In his past life, Dou Shiyan won Asia's first men's singles tennis Grand Slam at the age of seventeen.

By twenty-five, he had won double-digit Grand Slam titles and was just one step away from completing two Career Grand Slams.

His future should have been limitless, but a failed brain surgery left him paralyzed, ending his career on the court. He died in despair.

One day, Dou Shiyan wakes up having transmigrated into an entertainment-industry novel as a disposable character with the same name.

The character is a top idol, handsome, well-built, and a towering 1.9 meters tall.

Unfortunately, he's an empty suit with no talent. Jealous of the male lead, he keeps making trouble until the male lead runs him over and kills him.

When Dou Shiyan arrives, a management contract is waiting in front of him.

The company says that if he signs, they'll make him a top idol.

Dou Shiyan doesn't even look at it before turning them down.

Asked why, he smiles lightly and says, "I want to play tennis."

*

Before idol Dou Shiyan debuted, a single dance practice video made him famous across the internet.

His dancing was truly awful, but his face was breathtaking and his figure was outstanding.

He was supposed to debut as the group's visual, but the night before the debut, he suddenly announced he was leaving the boy band.

The whole internet erupted in criticism.

After Dou Shiyan left, the boy band rode the wave of publicity to release a debut single that broke sales records.

Everyone mocked him, calling him a talentless, ambitionless empty suit with no luck in life.

Until one day.

While watching the Wimbledon broadcast, they spotted the young man at the All England Club.

Dressed all in white and playing left-handed, he made it through qualifying without dropping a set, using a wild card to reach the main draw.

Ranked 300th, he then toppled the sixth seed in the first round, causing the biggest upset in Wimbledon's history.

That day, he made the sports headlines around the world, and gained 800,000 followers on Instagram overnight.

*

After transmigrating into the book, Dou Shiyan recreates his legendary past life, winning Wimbledon at the age of seventeen.

He is even a month younger than he was in his previous life.

As Dou Shiyan accepts a check for three million pounds before the British royal family and society's elite, a reporter asks him:

"Mr. Dou, people say you almost debuted as an idol in a boy band. What made you decide to switch to tennis?"

Holding a plate of rosewater, Dou Shiyan glances at the reporter's microphone and smiles brightly for the cameras.

"I couldn't be the ACE in a boy band, so I came to the court to serve aces."

The audience erupts in applause.

The broadcast helpfully brings up the men's tennis leaderboard for aces served.

Dou Shiyan tops the chart, averaging thirty aces per match and serving 210 aces in a single Wimbledon tournament.

That night, the hashtags #DouShiyanWimbledonChampion and #SoICameToTheCourtToServeAces both trend at the top.

The idol once mocked as an empty suit never performs on a music show again.

He only appears on the evening news.

Coming soon: The Straight Guy with Skin Hunger:

Qi Jianan suffers from severe skin hunger. Though he's straight, he's forced to search for people to cuddle with on social apps.

To make sure he doesn't cross any lines, Qi Jianan only looks for men to cuddle.

His profile says: Straight, BBS only.

BBS is slang used on gay dating apps. It means "hug and sleep," or "just cuddle while sleeping, nothing else."

Whenever Qi Jianan arranges to meet a guy, the other person thinks he's joking.

Qi Jianan is exactly the kind of guy gay men dream of, and the men he meets are all incredibly handsome. They can't believe he could possibly hold himself back.

But after spending the night together, Qi Jianan really has only cuddled them and done nothing else.

The guys are left devastated. One by one, they message him, asking, "Do you really feel nothing for me?" "Am I really that unattractive?" "Am I so ugly you won't even let me kiss you?" and so on.

Their self-esteem is shattered.

Qi Jianan gives them all the same reply: "No, I'm really straight! We agreed to cuddle and sleep. Why won't you believe me?"

The guys who have slept with him are even more devastated:

"A straight guy goes around looking for men to sleep with? Are you serious?"

"If you're a player, just own it. Why pretend you're straight?"

"I'd find it easier to accept if you just said you weren't into me."

*

Qi Jianan, who owes a whole lot of men, finally gets into trouble one day.

That night, after drinking at a class reunion, he turns up at an arranged meeting, staggering into a hotel room and clinging to a tall man in a suit, refusing to let go.

He even tugs at the man's tie, mumbling, "Why haven't you taken it off yet? You're supposed to be waiting for me."

The man says nothing. Only when Qi Jianan takes his hand, pulls him under the covers, and cuddles up to sleep does the man speak in a low, magnetic voice: "...What comes next?"

Qi Jianan buries his face in the crook of the man's neck and grunts, "There is no next step."

The next morning, as soon as Qi Jianan gets up, he plans to use his old trick and explain that he's straight and won't agree to anything except cuddling to sleep.

But before he can say a word, he sees the handsome, chiseled face sleeping beside him and is struck dumb.

The man before him is someone he often sees on the financial news, who once gave a speech at his school as an outstanding alumnus, and who, according to rumor, can bankrupt a listed company with a snap of his fingers...

Xing Zhenxiao, heir to the country's wealthiest family.

Qi Jianan is so terrified that he flees before he can even get dressed properly.

*

Xing Zhenxiao suffers from severe insomnia and usually needs therapy just to get a few hours of light sleep.

Then one night, a college student knocks on his door and, without a word, snuggles up to him, saying he wants to sleep together.

Xing Zhenxiao wants to refuse, but the other man is simply too beautiful. He clings to him like a koala, wanting every inch of their skin pressed together, yet insists they won't do anything.

Incredibly, Xing Zhenxiao falls asleep almost immediately that night.

It is the sweetest sleep he has had in twenty-eight years.

When he wakes, the person beside him has already run off.

All that's left is a white T-shirt someone has worn.

Xing Zhenxiao feels hollow inside. He picks up the shirt, which still carries the young man's scent from the night before, proof that it wasn't a dream.

From that day on, Xing Zhenxiao has to hold the T-shirt every night to fall asleep.

But it never compares to the sweet sleep he had in the young man's arms.

*

After sleeping with the wrong person, Qi Jianan never dares to arrange another meetup on the app.

He endures his skin hunger, hugging his shark-shaped body pillow every night, and goes for months without a good night's sleep.

As graduation approaches, Qi Jianan sends out his portfolio and resume online, and finally makes it to the last round of interviews at a Fortune 500 company.

The person seated in the middle of the interview panel is Xing Zhenxiao.

Qi Jianan is so mortified he wants the ground to swallow him up.

After the interview, Qi Jianan runs into Xing Zhenxiao outside the company building.

Xing Zhenxiao walks up to him expressionlessly, looks down at him, and says coldly, "Want to run away again?"

Qi Jianan hurriedly apologizes. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to that night..."

"Is that so?" Xing Zhenxiao says mildly, raising an eyebrow. "Then try doing it on purpose tonight."

Qi Jianan is dumbfounded. "...Huh?"

A clingy skin-hunger pup who's straight on the outside but dependent on touch within x an insomniac CEO who's domineering on the outside but lonely and starved for love within

Coming soon: The Silly Sweetheart of the Big Shot from a Male-Oriented Novel:

Zhou Xuyang transmigrates into a book, becoming the boyfriend of the little sister of a big shot in a male-oriented novel.

In the novel, he's such a naive sweetheart and so bad at protecting his girlfriend that the big shot kills him outright.

After arriving in the book, Zhou Xuyang decides to befriend his future brother-in-law to save his own skin, while looking for a chance to break up with his girlfriend.

But after a while, the big shot starts looking at him differently.

On Valentine's Day, Zhou Xuyang brings flowers to meet his girlfriend, but the person waiting at the entrance to the amusement park is her big brother.

His future brother-in-law takes the flowers from him and accepts them with obvious reluctance, raising an eyebrow. "I heard you wanted to ride the carousel?"

Zhou Xuyang: "...I never said that."

On their anniversary, Zhou Xuyang brings a cake he made himself to meet his girlfriend, but the person waiting in the restaurant's private room is still her big brother.

His future brother-in-law sticks candles into the cake and blows them out with a put-upon sigh, lifting his eyelids. "I heard you wanted to take pictures here?"

Zhou Xuyang: "...Who told you that?"

On the day he's planning to break up, Zhou Xuyang brings the engagement ring from their past and prepares to come clean to his girlfriend. The person waiting at the cafe is, once again, her big brother.

His future brother-in-law glances at the ring in Zhou Xuyang's hand, tries it on his ring finger, and clicks his tongue. "It's not my size."

Zhou Xuyang: "...Your sister's."

His future brother-in-law widens his eyes. "Why are you insulting me?"

Zhou Xuyang: "...I said that's your sister's size."

His future brother-in-law pulls out a box of rings and holds one out to Zhou Xuyang. "This is my size."

Now it's Zhou Xuyang's turn to widen his eyes, staring at the big shot in disbelief.

The big shot places the ring in Zhou Xuyang's palm, then holds out his broad hand, looking at him expectantly. "Well? Aren't you going to put it on me?"

Zhou Xuyang: "..."

He thinks his future brother-in-law must have lost his mind.

Theme: Listen to the voice of your heart.