I Give Up

[Big-hearted, scatterbrained top x self-aware flirt, bottom who is barely alive]

“Ah Jue, you were the one who fell for me first!”

“So what?”

“S-so...” He Yunye stammers anxiously, his blush spreading from his ears all the way down his neck. “So you can't just give up halfway!”

Jiang Xinjue's attention is drawn elsewhere. He doesn't spare him so much as a glance, then gives a casual grunt. “But what if I don't like you anymore? Is that not allowed?”

“B-but you were the one who kissed me first!”

“We're both grown men. You still care about first kisses? I honestly suggest you try kissing someone else. After a few times, you won't be so nostalgic about your first. Though you do taste pretty good...” Jiang Xinjue traces the line of his jaw, then presses a finger to his slightly parted lower lip. “If you're that reluctant to let go, we can have a proper farewell.”

“Ah Jue, don't be like this...” He Yunye dodges the lips hovering just inches from his own, lowering his aching eyes.

Jiang Xinjue lowers his hand and subtly takes a step back. “He Yunye, at this point, I might as well be honest with you. I've been alone for too long, and you happened to come along, so I played with you. You really couldn't tell?”

“But I was serious!”

*

He Yunye, an amateur artist who's topped the annual campus heartthrob poll every year, has always had a clear-eyed understanding of his own charm. But he's never let that charm run wild and cause a disaster of broken hearts.

How could someone who has everything he could want still fall victim to the inevitable graduation breakup?

This amateur artist has analyzed the data. There are only a few reasons behind graduation-season breakups. Sure, “fast-food campus romances,” a product of herd mentality, are nothing new. But this hopeless romantic believes that he and Jiang Xinjue are true love, and that Jiang Xinjue is the only one for him for the rest of his life.

To stay together forever, He Yunye turned even his block of rotten wood into a miracle, finally getting into the university his sweetheart had been admitted to through an early offer. But Jiang Xinjue changed his application without a word after the college entrance exams and broke up with him...

P.S.

One-on-one, both leads are chaste.

Theme: Nothing is impossible, as long as you truly want it...