Out of Focus

Chi Yu has long had a beloved crush, his moonlight Lin Yizhou, head of a century-old jewelry dynasty, a ruthless suit-clad boss whose absolute command of the industry has made everyone treat him as the gold standard, almost like a god. On the surface, Chi Yu is a down-and-out photographer. In reality, he is an avenger carrying a blood feud. He and Lin Yizhou belong to two different worlds. His affection is discreet and known to no one. He lives by the principle of stealing a glance from afar, secretly watching Lin Yizhou throughout his youth. Until an accident brings a memory card from a camera into the public eye. It contains photos and videos of Lin Yizhou, from his teenage years to the present. Haicheng is thrown into an uproar “Is this that obscure photographer, Valuri? Doesn’t he only take pictures of scenery, never people?!” “These are obviously secret photos. He’s got some nerve! He’s clearly up to no good!” Chi Yu becomes everyone’s target. Lin Yizhou idly taps the memory card on the table with his fingertip. “Chi Yu, do you have an explanation?” Chi Yu forces himself to stay calm. “I’m sorry, Mr. Lin. I lost the card and caused you trouble. If you tell me what you need, I’ll do my best to make it up to you.” Lin Yizhou’s lips curl slightly. “I mean the photos and videos.” Chi Yu lowers his eyes. “I’m sorry… Mr. Lin… I…” “Mm.” Lin Yizhou waits patiently, coaxing him along. “You what?” Chi Yu squeezes his eyes shut. “I’m sorry. I’m a pervert.” Lin Yizhou: “…” After the memory card was exposed, Lin Yizhou didn’t blame him like Chi Yu had expected. Instead, he seemed to care about him even more, often inviting him to meals and outings. Afraid of causing Lin Yizhou unnecessary trouble, Chi Yu continued to keep his distance and pretend they weren’t close. Until one day, Lin Yizhou seemed to get a little angry… “Chi Yu, you always act like a stranger around me in front of other people, but everything you do shows that you’re always quietly caring for me, looking after me, and worrying about me. Are you avoiding me because you’re shy? Do you like me?” Chi Yu grips his sweaty palm and lowers his gaze. “No.” Lin Yizhou takes a step forward, backing him into a corner. They’re close enough to feel each other’s breath. “Then start making your case.” Chi Yu’s breathing trembles. “Mr. Lin, I… don’t like you.” Lin Yizhou presses him at every turn. “That’s a weak claim. Give me evidence, evidence that you don’t like me.” “Mr. Lin…” “Chi Yu.” Lin Yizhou lifts his chin. “Is stealing a glance from afar really enough for you?” “Have you ever considered… kissing me?” “?” Chi Yu’s mind goes blank. He stares at Lin Yizhou in shock, but before he can react, he’s swept away by a fervent kiss. *** [Undercover storyline]*** Chi Yu goes undercover in a gambling city to gather evidence. Everyone there wears a mask. One day, his superior dies, and a new one arrives, code-named White Fox. There’s something strange about White Fox: he seems to keep staring at Chi Yu. “My lord, have I offended you somehow? Just tell me, and I’ll fix it.” “There’s nothing wrong with you. There’s something wrong with your body.” “Hm?” “Your bone proportions are very similar to someone’s.” Chi Yu’s heart stutters. Has his identity been exposed? “Is that so? Who is it?” “My lover.” “?” Chi Yu relaxes. His identity is safe. “Could you be mistaken, my lord?” “No.” White Fox’s gaze drifts over him. “I’ve drawn his bones hundreds, thousands of times.” Later, a strong gust of wind sweeps through, and hundreds, thousands of portraits fly out of a hidden chamber Chi Yu as a child, as a teenager, as a young man, sketched stroke by stroke in colored pencil, sometimes youthful and innocent, sometimes reserved and mature… Time itself seems to have been a brush, tracing his growth through the years. Chi Yu stands frozen, staring at the portraits in disbelief. Lin Yizhou’s unrequited love of more than a decade finally reverberates with earth-shaking force in this moment. The greatest surprise in the world is The person I’ve loved for so long has loved me for just as long. OvO In short, it’s a story about a super-pervert seducing a little pervert who doesn’t get it. 🐰 An aloof, adorably oblivious, antisocial beauty on the receiving end X a scheming, celibate, teasing old fox on the pursuing end 🦊 | 📷 Landscape photographer & jewelry BOSS 💎 | [Content warnings]: ① One-on-one, both characters are each other’s only partners, emotionally and physically. ② The receiving character’s bipolar disorder will flare up later in the story. Neither character is perfect, so don’t read if you’re a stickler for character flaws. ③ All information in this story is nonprofessional and based on online sources and popular science books. ④ Flashbacks will appear throughout, mostly in short scenes. ⑤ [Please note] The regions and social structure are fictional. All events are made up and do not reflect any real-life events. Both leads are good people, and neither does anything illegal while undercover. P.S. The writing is amateurish and the plot makes no sense, so don’t overthink it. Just have fun. If this makes you uncomfortable, drop the story right away! If this makes you uncomfortable, drop the story right away! If this makes you uncomfortable, drop the story right away! [Please note] Read the warnings first, okay~ I’m on my knees begging you all QAQ rz Screenshot of the first draft of the blurb, November 14, 2025 … [Coming Soon] "Pretending to Be Gay, Then Getting Kept by My Rich Roommate"… Fang Si has been drowning in love letters since he was a kid, all thanks to his handsome face. But he thinks romance only gets in the way of making money, so whenever someone confesses to him, he says, “Sorry, I’m gay.” That’s how he turns down a whole crowd of adoring girls. Until college, when his roommate catches him rejecting someone. Back in their dorm, his roommate corners him behind the door. “I like you. Will you be my boyfriend?” “?” Fang Si: “Dude, I’m a guy.” His roommate: “I know. I’m gay too.” Fang Si: “…” His roommate: “Can we give it a try?” Fang Si: “No. I need to make money. I don’t have time to date.” His roommate: “I can support you.” Fang Si scoffs. “Send me a hundred thousand and prove it.” His roommate takes out his phone and makes the transfer, then casually says his password as he enters it. “It’s my phone password too. Your birthday.” “I can also set up a shared payment account for you.” “Now can we give it a try?” Fang Si: “…” Fang Si is an unsuccessful musician on a certain platform, with fewer than ten followers. But he does have one die-hard fan who comments “Great song” on every track and sends him simple holiday greetings every year. Fang Si has never replied, because this person seems like an encouragement bot assigned by the platform. Until he spots the music player’s profile picture on his roommate’s computer, clicks through, and Holy crap! Isn’t that the bot fan??? Theme: Break free from your cocoon and grow toward the light! 2":"Half-baked Taoist × terminally ill “madman” emperor In the final years of the Yuan Dynasty, Yiyong appeared in Quzhou, throwing the whole realm into chaos as war raged everywhere. Emperor Qingyuan choked with rage and died. That same year, treacherous ministers joined forces and seized control of the court, while the young heir was imprisoned. Rumors spread from one person to ten, then from ten to a hundred: “The Imperial Seal can command heroes and restore order to the martial world. What is there to fear if we get our hands on it?” This nonexistent thing is like a curse. Everyone who tries to steal it dies. How can anyone believe in it? It’s better to rely on yourself. Later, Shen Zhuo realizes with horror: Wait, is this calamity… actually ‘me’? Theme: Good and evil are always repaid in the end","3":"Coming soon: "The Beautiful NPC Only Wants to Follow the Plot [Quick Transmigration]" Please add it to your collection~ Blurb at the bottom ↓ Zhou Yilin was born into a wealthy family and had everything from the moment he was born, but he grew tired of it all. For years, he struggled with depression and anxiety. In the end, he resolutely gave it all up and returned to a remote village at the foot of a snowy mountain to open a guesthouse. He bought a huge pile of greenery to decorate the place. The florist even threw in a pot of chubby pink succulents. The tiny succulent had only two fleshy leaves, delicate and translucent, with a little tendril poking out of the middle. Zhou Yilin and the tendril stared at each other for a long while. He wasn’t convinced, but if the florist said it was a succulent, then so be it. He casually set it on the desk in his room. That night, as soon as he closed his eyes, a young, childish voice suddenly rang out in the room: “Ahhh! You jerk, new owner! The mosquitoes you raised bit me! I hate it, I hate it, I hate it~” Zhou Yilin’s eyes flew open. He looked around the empty room. “Is this old house haunted?” He firmly believed there were no ghosts in the world, so he bothered his therapist in the middle of the night. After learning that his medication could cause hallucinations, he finally lay back down, reassured. He got along quite well with his “hallucination.” Every day, he’d watch it sneak into his fridge in the middle of the night, log into his game account on his computer to play ranked matches, then lose and spend all night muttering insults at its teammates… “…” The little hallucination was a handful, but Zhou Yilin kept taking his medication on schedule. Until one day, he was once again letting his “hallucination” lie on top of him and sneak a look at his phone screen, when suddenly a weight pressed down on him. His “hallucination” had become real, and now there was a beautiful young man with icy skin and jade-like bones in his arms, his whole body snowy white and soft, gazing at him with damp, gentle eyes. Tsk, it was getting hard to explain this away as a hallucination. Looking at the young man’s rosy cheeks, Zhou Yilin inexplicably thought of his strange-looking succulent. “Could a succulent have become a spirit?” A-Xuan suddenly had a human form. He was startled for only a second, expecting the mortal to jump at the sight of him, but the man wasn’t scared at all. He even pinched his cheek. The little succulent had a terrible temper. He immediately threw a fit, rolling around as he shouted, “You’re the succulent! Your whole family’s succulents!” He was an immortal herb! An immortal herb! Little scene: A-Xuan successfully snatches the account from the owner and becomes the new streamer of the guesthouse’s livestream. But the viewers’ attention is all over the place. “Baby, what’s your relationship with the owner?” “Is the streamer an adult? He’s got the ultimate pretty-boy face!” “What are you mumbling about? So cute, let me kiss you.” The comments get more and more inappropriate, so Zhou Yilin ends the livestream and pulls the young man into his arms, burying his face in the boy’s soft little belly. So soft, and he still says he’s not a succulent. [A cute little succulent on the receiving end who plays dirty in a den of tricksters × a human on the pursuing end who insists on being gloomy amid a crowd of goofballs] “You’re not a freebie. You’re the only one for me.” Reader’s guide: ○ One-on-one, light and sweet, with a slower pace. They run a guesthouse and grow flowers. ○ The story starts in the mountains, then later returns to the wealthy family. Coming soon "The Beautiful NPC Only Wants to Follow the Plot [Quick Transmigration]" Ying Shu dies unexpectedly and enters a Quick Transmigration world, bound to the role of a universally despised NPC. The good news: He doesn’t have many scenes. He just needs to follow the script and move the plot along to clock out. The bad news: The System lost its data and has no idea what the main plot is. It can only provide information when key characters appear. [World One: Brother, Please Abandon Me Again] With no script to follow, Ying Shu simply packs a bag and goes off to see the world. A talent scout discovers him, and he enters the entertainment industry. He’s too lazy to make it big, so he stays a minor celebrity. One day, the System suddenly sounds an alarm. Target Number One has appeared. He’s a homeless orphan, and you’re his deadweight little brother. But you have no sense that you’re a burden. You’re spoiled and capricious, causing trouble every day. Your story together is that you push him until he can’t stand it and abandons you. Free of you, he can rise to the top. Ying Shu, who ran away from home ages ago: “…” Then I’ll find the brother who’s already made it to the top and ask him to abandon me again? Soon, people notice that a certain young celebrity and a certain company president are always showing up at events together… And that’s not all. Target Number Two appears. He’s a poor boy with a hard life, and you’re his first love. You’re supposed to dump him cruelly when he’s at his lowest, after which he’ll rise from the ashes. Ying Shu, who never developed this storyline because he ran away from home: “…” Well, what’s done is done. I’ll approach him first, then figure out the dating part. And so the young celebrity starts sneaking around and having a secret relationship with a male student from a prestigious university. He thought he was just going through the motions, but things soon started to feel wrong. Brother Number One refuses to abandon him and holds him, sobbing in the middle of the night. “I’ll never leave you again.” He even showers him with money and resources, determined to turn him into a top-tier star. Number Two clings to him every night, crying as he threatens him. “If you abandon me, I’ll become a ghost and haunt you for the rest of your life.” He follows him like a lovesick stalker every day, practically wanting to put a tracker on him. Ying Shu: “…” Stop adding scenes for me without asking! [World Two: The Universally Despised Young Page Wants to Be Dismissed] You’re the common page boy shared by the wealthy and powerful. You’re dim-witted and tongue-tied, often angering your masters. Because you’re good-looking, you’re sold from one person to another. Mission: Collect five contracts of sale. With the data lost, Ying Shu has no idea where he’s supposed to sell himself. He’s already ended up in a fallen aristocratic family as the attendant to a cold, aloof young master. The bad news: The young master doesn’t want to become an official. He wants to be emperor. Ying Shu: “Wow, you’re ambitious~ When are you going to sell me?” When the young master takes the throne, Ying Shu packs his bags and sneaks away, successfully getting himself sold. Then he makes a mistake so his new master will sell him again. He happily goes to collect his third contract of sale, only to discover that the person who bought him is his first master. The once-gentle young noble has now ascended the throne and become a complete madman. Night after night, he torments Ying Shu. He secretly locks a chain around his ankle while he sleeps, and won’t let him lift a finger when eating or bathing. He wants to turn him into a useless plaything who can do nothing but please him… One night, half-asleep, Ying Shu hears a dangerous, frenzied voice beside his ear: “Run again, and I’ll break your legs.” … Theme: Keep the sun and moon in your heart, and create a beautiful life."}