After Being Raised by a Feudal Daddy

Older top and faux-sibling relationship, age gap (8 years), height difference (180 x 195), and size difference

Ming Wu was arrogant and proud. From the age of sixteen, he dominated the European and American modeling scene. As an adult, he was once named the world's most commercially valuable supermodel.

During a collaboration, he became embroiled in a sex scandal. One brand after another terminated their contracts, until only DK remained, offering help in his hour of need and agreeing to continue working with him. When he went to the group's headquarters to sign the contract, he happened to cross paths with the newly appointed CEO on an inspection tour.

The current head of the Shen family, Shen Changze.

The Shens were a centuries-old clan, one of the wealthiest families in the city. A business empire spanning Europe and Asia. Young, ambitious, and sharp-edged: those were the words outsiders used to describe the new head of the family.

Their mutual contact introduced them. Ming Wu smiled and shook his hand with composure.

Nobody knew they had once been closer than anyone.

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He had known the other man since he was six. Under the guise of being his older brother, this man had looked after him in every possible way.

Their youthful bond had run its course. Ming Wu just hadn't expected that after seeing him that day, they'd keep running into each other.

When he went to the archery range, Shen Changze happened to be there too, embracing him from behind to teach him how to shoot. When Ming Wu went to a bar to drown his sorrows, Shen Changze grabbed his wrist and dragged him home. Even when Ming Wu was at a hotel helping his designer friend find inspiration, Shen Changze managed to show up.

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Shen Changze knew that the boy he'd raised was proud and wouldn't yield to either force or persuasion. He'd spoiled and coaxed him all these years, afraid he'd get so much as a bump or a scrape.

Even when Ming Wu said at sixteen that he wanted to go out and make his own way, Shen Changze endured it and forced himself to let go.

Until the time he went into the wrong room on the top floor of a hotel. He saw Ming Wu wearing barely anything, his hands bound behind him on a huge, soft bed. A black blindfold covered most of his face, leaving only a little exposed. His lips looked moist and flushed red.

"You're back?" The bound boy on the bed seemed delighted by his arrival. His voice held a trust and ease Shen Changze had never heard before.

Someone was caressing his body. The person who'd promised to be there said nothing. Ming Wu struggled in alarm, but his hands were only bound tighter.

When the blindfold was pulled away, he found himself looking into his older brother's face.

With most of his clothes stripped off, he lay half-reclined on the bed in a thoroughly wretched pose. Shen Changze pinched his pointed chin.

"Every time I see you get hurt, it makes me feel awful. I've held you close to my heart and in the palm of my hand all these years. I can't stand to see you hurt at all."

"And now you've gone and done this to yourself for some man, and you're turning against me."

"Ming Wu, I raised you all this way so you could let some other man fuck you?"

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"If you can't take care of yourself, then I'll take care of you."

TIPS / CONTENT WARNINGS:

1. Older top and faux-sibling relationship, age gap (8 years), height difference (180 x 195), and size difference. Powerful, authoritative, fatherly older top x aloof, proud, sickly beauty of a bottom.

2. The bottom wasn't actually involved in a scandal, doesn't really have another boyfriend, and isn't actually playing that game. The first two were rumors, while the last was him helping a longtime photographer friend find inspiration by modeling professionally.

3. One-on-one romance, both are sexually inexperienced, happy ending. No blood relation and they aren't registered in the same household. They start dating as adults.

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Wen Xun had known from a very young age that people didn't like him.

He was quiet and reclusive, often like an inconsequential shadow that everyone overlooked. His father and older brother ignored him, while his arranged marriage partner was cold and arrogant, distant and unpredictable.

So when a truck went out of control and came hurtling toward him, he didn't think much of it.

...Nobody would care if I died, would they?

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When he woke up again, he was in a run-down alley in the city.

He had no money and walked through unfamiliar streets, anxious and unsure. After hesitating for a long time, he finally entered a convenience store and carefully dialed his arranged partner's number.

His older brother had said that once he was married, he wouldn't be part of the Wen family anymore.

The line crackled. He clutched the phone, not really knowing if the other person would agree.

"Hello, I'm Wen Xun..."

"I think I'm lost. Could you... lend me a little money first?"

There was silence on the other end for a long time. Wen Xun pressed his lips tightly together, anxiously thinking the other person might hang up, when a hoarse male voice came through the faint crackle of the line.

"Wen Xun?"

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Jin Yuelin of B City had gone from government to business, building a commercial empire across several continents. They said that ever since his beloved wife died ten years ago, he had kept himself chaste and avoided all romantic entanglements, growing more and more reclusive and obsessive.

Yet, unexpectedly, he gave generously to charity, pouring huge sums of money into it every year. Nobody knew whose blessings he was hoping to earn.

He had prepared to spend the rest of his life guarding Wen Xun's belongings. He never imagined that one day he would see the person from his dreams again.

Wen Xun was young, physically frail, and guarded. Everything had to be done slowly.

The largest, brightest room. A comfortable temperature. A wardrobe full of beautiful clothes. A nutritionist and live-in doctor on call in shifts around the clock. He devoted himself to being a perfect husband.

As Wen Xun grew closer to him, he was already planning to propose again. But after a drunken, impulsive night brought on by an accident, Wen Xun started avoiding him.

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When he discovered he was pregnant, Wen Xun's mind went blank.

He didn't want anyone to find out. Acting on instinct, he hastily packed his bags, planning to flee to another city that very night.

The day the truth came out, Wen Xun clutched his watch in a panic. Shen Yuelin's eyes were filled with a repressed darkness and possessiveness. His voice was gentle, but frighteningly low.

"You're pregnant. Why didn't you tell me?"

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Wen Xun had thought that coming back from the dead so suddenly would probably be a huge hassle. But when the people around him looked at him, he saw many emotions he couldn't understand in their eyes.

His father and older brother hugged him, regretful and heartbroken. The friend he'd fallen out with awkwardly asked for his forgiveness. And Shen Yuelin...

He knelt before him and asked to be the one he spent the rest of his life with.

TIPS / CONTENT WARNINGS:

1. Sickly beauty of a bottom x widower with a fatherly disposition as the top. The bottom thinks everyone hates him, but he's actually everyone's favorite.

1.5. The top is younger at first. Ten years pass after the bottom's death. The bottom doesn't age, while the top becomes older. Since his wife died once, he has a bit of PTSD and can be overprotective. He'll be set straight later. One-on-one romance, both are sexually inexperienced, happy ending.

2. The top and the bottom's older brother don't get along. The brother thinks the top will mistreat the bottom, while the top thinks the brother raised him so poorly that he can't keep taking care of him. They'll be at odds for a while.

3. Pregnancy will feature in the story to a certain extent.

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