Winter’s Reverence

Dual male leads | Modern urban | Wealthy families | International business | Coming of age | Angsty romance | Mutual devotion | HE

Jiang Lin, the third-generation head of the Jiang family business consortium, was respectfully known to outsiders as “Master Lin.” Cold, ruthless, and always in command. Twenty-one years ago, he found a nearly frozen child in a battered cardboard box in a dockside warehouse. He raised the child himself and named him his heir. Jiang Lin set the rules, and he was the one who enforced them.

Song Yan was the “Young Master Lin” Jiang Lin had personally trained. Outside, he was decisive and cold-blooded, a reflection of Jiang Lin himself. But in front of Jiang Lin, he was always the obedient puppy who knelt to accept punishment without a word, no matter what was done to him. He revered Jiang Lin with all his heart, and secretly loved him just as deeply. He had hidden those feelings for ten years, never daring to speak of them, never able to. He was afraid of disappointing Jiang Lin, afraid he wasn’t worthy of him.

Until that day.

That day, Jiang Lin kicked the door open. Without a word, he raised his hand and slapped Song Yan across the face.

The rules of the brotherhood were absolute.

Kneeling in the punishment hall, Song Yan held the family’s rattan cane above his head in both hands, begging Jiang Lin to beat him to death himself.

“My life was given to me by Big Brother. I’ve brought shame on you. Please beat me to death.”

Jiang Lin looked at the man kneeling before him.

It was the first time Song Yan had ever lost his composure in front of outsiders.

“He was afraid I’d be disappointed in him. Wasn’t he afraid I’d be heartbroken?”

The child kept the coat Jiang Lin had wrapped around him for many years.

Just as Jiang Lin kept that child with him for a lifetime.