How Can I Smile Until Danger Has Passed? [Free]

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* Younger, blunt, unhinged top x cool, teasing, fox-like bottom

[Mutual secret identities / Fated bond / Hidden powerhouses / Team growth / Multiple twists]

Blurb:

Ten years ago, as Shen Che swallowed his last breath amid the gunpowder smoke, half a sugar cube slipped through his fingers.

Ten years later, Mu Wei played an eighteen-year-old playboy to perfection. In a tiered lecture hall, he whistled at the person on the podium:

"Professor He, your second button's undone. Are you trying to lure me in?"

He Xiao paused as he adjusted his glasses. The chill behind the lenses was like ice.

But late at night in his office, his fingertips rubbed the rusted sugar cube, burning hot enough to brand his skin.

The silver light of endless simulations had swirled in his eyes for ten years. He had calculated three thousand ways to die, all to wait for Mu Wei to blunder into the trap he'd laid.

Amid gunfire at the docks in the western suburbs, a man in a silver bird mask shielded him, an old wound on his left shoulder seeping blood in the firelight.

Mu Wei seized the hand holding the gun and flashed a fang through the smoke. "White Bird, want me to remind you how sweet two sugar cubes are?"

The breathing beneath the mask suddenly faltered. Gunfire shattered a choked-off sentence: "...I've quit."

[Mutual secret identities · Unhinged flirting]

When the playboy heir tore open his shirt to reveal the battle scars of an Eighth-Tier Strategist, He Xiao leisurely loosened his tie.

"Student Mu, done pretending?"

When the cool professor shed his disguise and revealed the sharp edge of White Bird, Mu Wei instead pinned down the hand reaching for his gun holster.

"Don't rush. Let's first figure out how many times we can make it tonight."

The intimacy meter blew through the base firewall:

[Mu Wei → He Xiao: 99 (Playing the playboy is exhausting. I'd rather just get on top of you.)]

[He Xiao → Mu Wei: 100 (Keep it up and I'll lock you in a simulation tonight.)]

Ye Xiao kicked open the warehouse door with a cigarette between his lips. "What the hell are you acting for? Who was it last time that pinned him against the wall and kissed him like a starving wolf?"

Mu Changqing pulled up the security footage. "Some professor spent until three in the morning preparing a lesson plan called 'How to Make Mu Wei Apologize While Pouting.'"

Zhao Lei activated the AI alarm. "Warning! Excessive public displays of affection detected! Recommend throwing both of them into the Bronze Gate for decontamination!"

He Xiao bit down on his Adam's apple and chuckled amid the tremors of their shared energy. "Remember, you're the one I locked into my destiny after ten thousand simulations."

Mu Wei turned and pushed him down onto the carpet, golden light entwined with silver as it swept across their waists. "Perfect. Then let's turn this damn fate upside down together."

* Windbreaking Kite x White Bird, younger, blunt, unhinged top x cool, teasing, fox-like bottom

* Ten years of planning, both secret identities exposed, and the higher their intimacy, the wilder their power.

* Every coincidence was plotted, every reunion a destiny I calculated in advance.

[Reader's guide]

1. Beneath the modern urban setting lies a clash between future technology and supernatural abilities.

2. Mostly sweet, with a little angst now and then, and a happy ending. The AI will make you cry.

3. There will be a children's car going to kindergarten.

4. There will be one-sided crushes, and the secondary couple has a body-double trope.

Theme: Staying true to your convictions at all times