Story type: COLD-READ, Multi-chapter, M/M
Summary: Shen Yuan isn't lonely. He's just overseas in a new city, trying to muddle his way through a business degree, and dealing with the side effects of his stupid intestines trying to kill him. So, maybe he sometimes watches ASMR to cope with his too-quiet apartment. Maybe he has a little bit of a parasocial-relationship-thing going on with one particular cooking ASMR channel. It's 2016, who doesn't? The point is, he's content with his quiet life.
And then Shang Qinghua strong-arms him into watching one Hallmark Christmas movie, and it all goes to hell.
Or: Shen Yuan is a Hallmark movie protagonist, Luo Binghe is a Lifetime movie protagonist, and somehow they make it work.
Additional tags: Fluff, Strangers to Lovers, Minor Mòběi-jūn/Shàng Qīnghuá, Minor Liǔ Míngyān/Shā Huálíng, Chronic Illness, ASMR Artist Luo Binghe, food as a love language, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Humor, Liǔ Sibling Solidarity, Asexuality Spectrum, Internalized Acephobia, Internalized Homophobia, Shěn Yuán VS CompHet Death Match, Luò Bīnghé is a combination of Bingge and Bingmei, More angst than anticipated, WARNING:TOOTHBRUSH SHARING
Notes
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- This is a Danmei podfic (fanfiction audio reading) inspired the Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: (Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong; SVSSS), a Chinese novel series written by the author, Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (MXTX).
- The fanfic is written by mellicindi. Art also by mellicindi.
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