From the Start, Long Live the People! My Childhood Friend, Qi Bao, Confesses to Me

[Multiple Heroines] [The Male Lead Has Positive, Patriotic Values; If You Dislike That, Don’t Read] Lin Yuan, reincarnated in a crossover anime world, is an ordinary person with no cheats or special powers. On a starry night when he was sixteen, his confession to Kiana Kaslana fell apart amid a misunderstanding: he couldn’t believe a noble heiress could like him. For the rest of his life, he wandered far from home, pursuing the ideals of the Red Giant. He dreamed of finding the Red Giant in this crossover world, and spent fifty years traveling with the elf Frieren. Only when the candle of his life was about to go out did he return to his old home in Nanchang, Jiangxi. Lying on the old bed that creaked beneath him, he watched Eri, the girl he had once taken in, now a grown woman, enter through the door. Tears streaming down her face, she said, “Welcome home! My dear brother…” With the last of his strength, Lin Yuan took a manga he had drawn himself from the cabinet. It chronicled the little moments shared by the two siblings. As Eri turned the pages, memories surged back like a tide, and she remembered all the warmth her brother had given her throughout his life. Eri held his gradually cooling body tight, her tears soaking through his clothes. At that very moment, time turned back. She returned to the year she was sixteen, where the story began, and saw Lin Yuan before her, bright and cheerful, looking at her in confusion. “What are you doing, Eri? Aren’t you going to eat? Want your big brother to feed you?” “Wait, why are you hugging me? Aren’t you a little old for that?” “Quit messing around. Big Brother just got back from his summer job, and I bought you a new Rilakkuma!”