The Tenth Year Since the Morning Sun Came Into My Arms

A passionate, carefree, sunny, warm-hearted, boyish straight guy × a proud and aloof man on the surface who is secretly in love with him and pretends they are just best friends

A bittersweet, yearning push and pull; a straight man falls for another man

I want to write a love story that is bittersweet, angsty, and sweet.

Yu Hanyan has a secret.

He has been in love with his high school deskmate, You Chaoyang, for ten years.

For someone as cool and distant as him, it was the grandest secret of his youth, and the only joy that ever set his heart ablaze.

You Chaoyang.

Just hearing those three syllables brings a rush of warmth.

You Chaoyang is everyone's sun: cheerful, passionate, and dazzling. When his amber eyes fix on you, even his brows and eyes seem to burn.

Yu Hanyan is cool and distant, but for him alone, he hides a heart full of burning affection.

But You Chaoyang is straight. He isn't attracted to men, and what he feels for Yu Hanyan is nothing more than passionate, easygoing brotherhood.

They are the closest of friends. Whenever You Chaoyang slings an arm around him, Yu Hanyan can only secretly savor his warmth, trembling as he does.

After graduation, You Chaoyang gets a girlfriend.

Yu Hanyan restrains himself, swallows his feelings, and moves far away, pretending he's long since let go. Only in the dead of night does he look through their high school photos again and again, tracing with his fingertips the boy's sharp canines and smiling eyes as he hugs him tight, laughing with all his heart.

After high school, they never see each other again.

...He thinks he has forgotten that grand secret of his youth.

Until ten years later, when You Chaoyang's parents die, his girlfriend leaves him, and his life hits rock bottom. The sun who once shone so brightly is now dim, disheveled, and pitiful.

He refuses to let anyone get close, but Yu Hanyan stubbornly drags him back to his side.

Looking at his face, Yu Hanyan is overcome by a familiar feeling:

For ten years, he thought he had learned to forget and keep his feelings in check. But the moment he meets those eyes from his memories, he falls apart completely.

Yu Hanyan uses every means at his disposal, and finally brings his sun back into his arms.

Just like his name, You Chaoyang is passionate and warm.

During his youth, he shone on countless people. He probably never imagined that ten years later, he would lose his happiness and be unable to shine even on himself.

You Chaoyang is grateful that his dear friend, whom he hadn't seen in years, has come back to his side out of concern for him.

But this brat was able to call him every day for the first two years after graduating high school and moving abroad, then gradually grew distant.

Still, You Chaoyang thinks Yu Hanyan is wonderful, the best friend in the world.

But little by little, You Chaoyang realizes that the way his aloof CEO best friend looks at him seems...a little off.

1. A bittersweet, yearning push-and-pull romance. The pursuer is straight; the pursued falls for him, then chases him.

2. Handsome pursuer and pursued, both strong and attractive. The pursuer is a passionate, sunny golden retriever; the pursued is a proud, aloof CEO.

Theme: Seeing the afterglow of the sunrise