What?! The Pitiful Boy the Young Master Took In Is the General’s Son

Cheng Yin, the young master of the Cheng family, has blond hair and blue eyes, and is doted on by his two unstable older brothers. His eldest brother scolds him for being softhearted, then turns around and buys out the whole city. His second brother, all muscle, guards an underground hunting arena and keeps every dirty job out of his little brother’s sight.

Then one day, in front of the arena’s final cage, Cheng Yin sees a boy covered in wounds and wearing a white mask. Everyone is waiting for the player to kill him slowly, one strike at a time, for their amusement. Cheng Yin crouches down and reaches out his hand. He takes the boy home, gives him a name, feeds him hot soup, and even worries he’ll get cold at night.

Cheng Yin thinks he has merely rescued a mute little beast.

But one night, the eyes beneath the mask suddenly open. He is Lu Jin, son of Lu Tingzhou, a high-ranking general in Yuncheng. At ten years old, he defended the city and watched the Empire sell it out for a treaty with the insect race. Then he was dragged away and subjected to ten years of live experimentation. Everyone thought he was dead, but he crawled out of the piles of corpses again and again.

He should have sneered, used Cheng Yin’s kindness to survive, then killed his way back for revenge.

But as he watched Cheng Yin curled up on the sofa, stroking Qiuqiu’s fur, his golden profile in the light, he suddenly closed his hand around the soft leash Cheng Yin had tied on him.

He wasn’t leaving. Cheng Yin was his now.