[Opening November 13!]
[Cold on the outside, fiery on the inside, troublemaking bottom x cool guy top whose mouth is even tougher than his "mm-hm"]
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Huai Fan is a menace who loves stirring up trouble, and he especially enjoys picking on Qin Nan, the bastard he's known since childhood.
In front of their parents, they're the picture of lifelong friendship. In reality, put them together and sparks fly. They argue and fall out more often than those hapless couples who've gotten back together eight hundred times.
Then one day, Huai Fan suddenly realizes that the bastard actually looks kind of handsome...
He decides to generously make peace with Qin Nan... no, to hold hands and start dating.
That night, Huai Fan excitedly sends his future boyfriend a notice: "I'm going to start chasing you!"
Even Qin Nan, who's so used to Huai Fan's antics, feels a chill crawl down his spine when he gets the message: "Who are you?"
. Beware of a new kind of pig-butchering scam
The two people least likely to get together end up dating in an absurdly clingy relationship for six whole years.
Then, after a huge fight, they break up for good. Qin Nan coldly leaves the country without a word, and the two lose all contact.
Qin Nan becomes an ex-boyfriend. Huai Fan stands at the airport with tears in his eyes, looking like he has two runny fried eggs for eyes.
All of the above was a dream Huai Fan had.
The first half had actually happened. The second half was currently at the pursuing stage.
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When Huai Fan wakes up, he's so furious with that bastard Qin Nan he could explode!!!
How dare that bastard seize power! And after breaking up, he has the nerve to give me the cold shoulder?!
The worst part is, I cried until I looked like a pair of runny fried eggs?!!
In a fit of rage, Huai Fan grabs his phone and bombards the bastard with a furious stream of accusations and insults.
"We're breaking up! You scumbag!!!"
Qin Nan, who has been following a guide to play hard to get step by step and is about to agree coyly, looks at the guide, then at the message, and falls silent for two seconds:
"Is the pig-butchering scam over?"
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Qin Nan is a college guy with boundless energy. He goes for a morning run, eats breakfast, and attends class; he still has enough energy to play basketball at noon, then drag Huai Fan, who's got a lazy streak, off for a swim in the evening. With the occasional bickering, their days are full and happy.
He's handsome, athletic, brilliant at school, and dependable. He has the face of a cool guy who acts like the world owes him everything, but unfortunately, his mouth is vicious, a side only close friends get to see.
Growing up, six out of every ten fights were started by Qin Nan, another three were Huai Fan picking a fight, and the last one was when they both got genuinely angry and fell out.
So when someone says "We're breaking up," Qin Nan doesn't think much of it, even though they'd never actually been together.
But this time is different. Huai Fan suddenly seems to have become conscious of keeping his distance and starts avoiding him.
He stops bombarding Qin Nan with messages, stops pouting and asking him to bring milk tea, and even stops pushing the vegetables he hates from his own plate onto Qin Nan's...
Qin Nan is furious, but he's confident no one else could come between them. He just waits for the day Huai Fan can't stand it anymore and complains to him in a pouty voice, "Qin Nan, how can you be like this?"
Qin Nan has spoiled Huai Fan ever since they were kids. Huai Fan can't put up with anything uncomfortable for more than five minutes.
So he waits.
He waits and waits. Stubborn Qin Nan gets nothing, except one man after another trailing Huai Fan, each more skilled at flirting and clinging than the last!
Qin Nan grits his teeth. He finally gives up pretending to be tough, and throws his coy, hard-to-get playbook out the window. One day, he brings it up as if it's no big deal:
"Weren't we supposed to be following the enemies-to-lovers script? So I should be your boyfriend by now, right? Or we could skip a step... I could be your husband."
Huai Fan: "...?"
What new kind of flirt disguised as an argument is this?
Theme: At every crossroads in life, I choose you.
