You Must Be Starving, But I'm Your Brother!

Name: You Must Be Starving, But I'm Your Brother!
Author: Si Lingmu

你真是饿了，我可是你兄弟！

by Si Lingmu (司灵木)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 247k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: Urban Everyday
Updated: 4mo ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

[Heartwarming, slice of life, gender swap, no angst, white-haired heroine]

The sun is especially warm today.

I've made a steaming hot meal and just taken my heart medication. The new graphics card I picked up from the parcel station is on the sofa. Ha, I know he'll be so happy!

I go downstairs to meet him.

To meet the guy I've been through thick and thin with for twenty years.

But when I see him, he's clearly crying.

Why?

Oh, I got hit by a truck. (How annoying.)

The sun isn't warm at all today.

Yeah, I died.

Then I came back to life!

Only now I'm a sickly girl with a new name and long white hair, lying on a cold, white hospital bed and barely clinging to life. The passersby look at me with pity. Dusk falls outside the window, and the hospital and its doctors are all unfamiliar.

The nurse says I have serious heart disease.

The family of the girl whose body I'm in treated her coldly, abandoning her at the hospital without a word. Her original self, suffering from severe depression, calmly took her own life, and she also left behind a massive medical bill!

It's a hopeless, catastrophic start.

What should I do?

Of course, go home and sleep.

I dial a familiar number.

A little over ten minutes later, someone familiar rushes to the hospital, tears streaming down their face.

Right, the bill's been paid.

Maybe things aren't so bad. That person is still here, and so is her home. It's like I just woke from a dream in the hospital and called him.

“Lao Xia, I'm a little hungry.”

“Okay, okay. I'll go get you something to eat.”

Other names

No, Gomen, You Really Blame Me for Being Genderbent for the Rest of Your Life?不是戈门，性转了你真赖我一辈子Former title · until Nov 2026

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3.4kReads · 30 days

1.3MReads · all time

321Shelf adds, last 14 days

9.6Score

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This is the first time in all my years on Tomato that I've read such a heartwarming and natural novel. The plot doesn't have any dramatic twists or turns, and the protagonist isn't overly shy or coy after her gender swap, constantly trying to get rid of the male lead. In this respect, I personally think it completely surpasses 99% of similar novels on Tomato.
384 likes2y ago
I don't know why, but reading this book always felt like there was a melancholic melody to it. The words seemed to grow darker and darker as I read, making it hard to breathe. But overall, it's still very nice, and the writing is quite good. In short, author, keep up the good work! The book is very enjoyable and immersive. 🍉😏
98 likes2y ago
A sincere friendship, a flawless love, transcending spring, summer, autumn, and winter. The meeting of two extremes forged a twenty-year companionship. Old Xia and Old Dong have walked together for twenty years, and will surely walk together for another twenty years, a third twenty years, until the end of one's life.
79 likes2y ago
The whole book is sweet, but the protagonist's background gives it a heavy feel. However, it is precisely this feeling that makes the book stand out among gender-swap novels. It doesn't just focus on romance; overall, the most prominent element so far is definitely friendship, making it worth savoring.
71 likes2y ago
Great story, the emotions are beautifully portrayed. And most importantly, please don't stop updating! 😏😏
51 likes2y ago
Very good, experience it for yourself, the author put a lot of effort into writing it.
51 likes2y ago
The writing is beautiful, the descriptions are delicate, and the emotions are sincere. The twenty-year friendship between Dongxia and her lover, who have relied on each other for support, has made each other more important than their own lives. The author's descriptions of their everyday life are also meticulous, with every line revealing Dongxia's love for each other.
48 likes2y ago
It's so good, damn it's so good! I'm already twisting into a pretzel on the bed and grinning like a crazy auntie 😏
48 likes2y ago
I've read almost four thousand hours of this novel, and it's the only one that gets more and more heartbreaking the more I read it—it almost made me depressed. I guess I'm just unlucky to have met that old Xia. I only have two friends, although I did meet a good friend, an online friend I've known for four years, though I don't know their face… I also wish everyone finds their Mr. Xia (or Mr. Dong) soon.
46 likes2y ago
This is a truly excellent book! First of all, I think the author's writing style is superb, especially in describing daily life. It makes you feel like you're right there, even through the screen, as if you can experience the atmosphere of the characters' lives. The characters are very well-developed, and the plot isn't mindless like some other books.
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