Growing Fruit, Reaping Nothing

Name: Growing Fruit, Reaping Nothing
Author: He Writes of the Tianshan Mountains, He Writes of Cangzhou

种果无瓜

by He Writes of the Tianshan Mountains, He Writes of Cangzhou (他写天山他写沧州)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 222k Words
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[Two male leads + sweet and angsty romance + faux brothers + mutual unrequited love + wealthy-family power struggles + happy ending] The restrained, long-suffering elder brother who is like a father (Yan Yifang) × the cool, stubborn younger brother who grows into a lone wolf (Yan Heng) In a household ruled by strict family laws and the pursuit of family interests above all else, live two “brothers” with an unusually close bond. Yan Heng has been scorned, ostracized, and locked in the attic since childhood. He lives like a stray dog someone picked up off the street. The only one who covers him with a blanket in the middle of the night, shields him from slaps, and stays by his bed when he has a fever is Yan Yifang. But eventually, even Yan Yifang starts avoiding him. “If you weren’t my brother, we’d be nothing to each other.” It isn’t until he turns nineteen that he learns he really is the outsider: he has no blood ties to this family at all. And the man who pushed him away will cling to him when drunk, climb into his bed in the dead of night, and stare blankly at his empty apartment after he moves out. “You have feelings for me, don’t you?” “Stop asking.” I planted the seeds with my own hands, yet the flowers bloomed in vain. How could I bear to see you fall so low? You are the pulse that runs through my blood. A little sugar goes into the bitter, crumbling dregs. Its sweetness builds bit by bit until it permeates the whole story, and after all the bitterness comes the sweetness. This is a realistic drama, with family infighting and power struggles.

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