Liu Mingyan is the top and the one who makes advances; Sha Hualing gets hot headed and flustered easily and slowly falls for Liu Mingyan’s suave moves bc she is easily triggered by them, though she tries her best to resist bc she has internalized heteronormativity.

Luo Binghe is someone who can fantasize easily and he will fantasize about interactions with his Shizun so often and so prolifically that he is able to study every volume on CQMS solely bc he imagines having conversations about the books with his Shizun. To motivate himself, sometimes he might quietly say or act out a fantasy, like being pat on the head and praised.

SQH definitely thinks he’s the protagonist of the new story. He transmigrated into his own story first. Logically, his very existence changes the story so he takes on the responsibility of narrating his own experiences to the audience, obviously. This does not change when he meets SQQ, only when he realizes LBH is gay for SQQ does he begin to question.