Good Times Are Here

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"Pure-hearted playboy young master seme x aloof, slow-witted bartender uke"

The first time they met, Sheng Xiao punched Liang Jiaheng so hard he landed in the hospital.

That was how their feud began.

The second time they met, Sheng Xiao was forced to work on an event with Liang Jiaheng.

He thought Liang Jiaheng was cold and stubborn; Liang Jiaheng thought he had no sense of personal boundaries.

The third time they met, Sheng Xiao's friends egged him on to kiss another guy.

For reasons he couldn't quite explain, Sheng Xiao kissed Liang Jiaheng.

The other man didn't push him away.

Later, Sheng Xiao asked Liang Jiaheng, "Senior, would you be my boyfriend?"

Liang Jiaheng stayed silent for a long time, then finally nodded.

The last time they met.

In the pouring rain, Sheng Xiao was soaked through. He clutched Liang Jiaheng's clothes and begged in a low voice, "Senior, can we please not break up?"

Liang Jiaheng looked at him coldly, pried his fingers loose one by one, and left him with a single sentence: "Sheng Xiao, we're not right for each other."

Sheng Xiao later came down with a high fever. When he woke up, he had forgotten everything about Liang Jiaheng.

He inherited the family business as planned, going from a young master everyone could ignore to President Sheng, someone everyone wanted to cozy up to.

One day, he went to inspect a branch office and accidentally bumped into someone.

He stood frozen for a long time, until his assistant asked, "President Sheng, do you know him?"

Sheng Xiao shook his head, but his gaze remained fixed on the slender figure.

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When Liang Jiaheng was a child, a high fever went untreated and left him with severe hearing loss.

From then on, his world was silent.

After getting together with Sheng Xiao, Sheng Xiao was always pressing close to his ear to talk.

Knowing he couldn't hear, he deliberately teased him.

"Senior, after graduation, should we run away together?"

The idea was absurd. Liang Jiaheng stayed silent even longer than usual.

But Sheng Xiao didn't seem to care about Liang Jiaheng's answer. He just wanted someone who would listen to him.

"My family doesn't like me. We won't come back here once we leave."

Liang Jiaheng stroked Sheng Xiao's face. "Mm."

Later, they broke up. A downpour soaked two shattered hearts.

Liang Jiaheng thought Sheng Xiao must hate him more than anything.

And that was exactly how it seemed. After they met again, Sheng Xiao went out of his way to make things difficult for him.

Until one day at a gathering, someone asked Sheng Xiao whether he'd ever been in a relationship.

"I have." Sheng Xiao glanced at Liang Jiaheng, sitting in the corner, and said nonchalantly, "Then I forgot about it."

Liang Jiaheng said nothing and quietly handed him the cocktail he'd made.

Sheng Xiao drank one glass after another until he was dead drunk.

He grabbed Liang Jiaheng by the wrist, his eyes red. "Senior, can we start over?"

A song came on in the private room at just the right moment. No one knew who had picked it.

"We never got the chance to meet when the good times came. How can we find the confidence to try again?"*

Sheng Xiao and Liang Jiaheng had once listened to this song together in a taxi.

After they broke up, it kept appearing in Sheng Xiao's dreams and played on repeat countless times at Liang Jiaheng's bar.

[Little tips from Er'er]

1. *The title is taken from Miriam Yeung's "A Girl's Prayer."

2. The two-character name is the seme, the three-character name is the uke. Don't ship them the other way around, please.

3. I don't accept writing advice of any kind. Writing well is the author's duty and responsibility. Readers, just enjoy the story. Love you all.

4. The author wrote this by rolling their face over the keyboard. The writing is elementary-school level, and this is my first time writing a romance, so I may start rambling in my sleep as I go. If you come across a scene you don't like, please click the X and leave.

5. This story isn't for readers who are particular about either role, so please proceed with caution. The seme and uke are both faithful to each other (there's no way I'd write otherwise). First time, first kiss, first hand-holding, first hug. The only way either of them is out of character is that they don't love the other. He loves him so much, and he loves him so much too.

6. Updates are every other day. Huaixue wishes all readers happiness every day, and many more good stories to come.

Theme: Separation is for the sake of a better reunion.