When I was six years old, I lost my home. The Lin family took me in, and Lin Yushen became my brother.
He is two years older than me, and the whole school knows that Shen Nian is Lin Yushen's sister. He warmed milk for me, peeled eggs, and always carried two umbrellas when it rained. He has to control what dress I wear, what time I get home, and who I get close to. Everyone said, "Your brother is so kind to you." I nodded, thinking that this is what a brother should do.
Later I slowly realized something was not right.
No brother would keep the candy wrapper of a candy handed to him by his sister for ten years. No brother would sit by the bed in a daze until dawn after his sister falls asleep. No brother would look at someone so coldly that they would not dare to approach him when someone is sending a love letter to his sister.
Before my seventeenth birthday, I dug out a piece of yellowed paper from the bottom of his bookcase - an adoption certificate, dated the year I came to the Lin family.
I went to him with the paper. He glanced at it, was silent for a long time, and then said something.
"You have been part of my family since you were six years old. From now on, too."
He has been in charge of me for seventeen years. Starting today, he said he will take care of me for the rest of his life.
A long story of "I care about you because I can't let you go". Childhood sweethearts, non-blood siblings, sweet and warm healing.
