Ten Years After My Adoptive Father Died

Mu Wan, unemployed and back in his hometown, rescued a pair of kidnapped twins who had lost their memories by the river.

Five years later, Mu Wan got lost on his way home after buying groceries for them.

He walked through a patch of shadow, then looked up to find that everything had changed. Mu Wan returned to the old house and broke the seal to get inside, but the twins were long gone.

After being taken to the police station for breaking the seal, the police called the only two contacts on his old phone.

Only then did Mu Wan learn that they were heirs to one of the country's most powerful families, found and brought home after five years missing. The older brother, Mu Yuxing, was a carefree top-tier star. The younger brother, Mu Jiang, had just taken over the family business and carried himself with cool, aristocratic reserve.

He had been so slow-witted that he had actually let them call him Father for years.

The two hurried to the police station through the rain, drenched and chilled to the bone.

There was no sound. The silence was almost eerie.

Mu Wan's fingers gripped so tightly they turned white. Raindrops fell from the hem of his clothes as he bowed his head and spoke in a muffled voice. "Long time no see. Could you... bail me out?"

The rainy night was dark and hazy. A young man, familiar yet strange, bent down to look at him. The voice that fell beside his ear was no longer boyish.

"Of course, Father."

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In ten years, they had changed so much. They seemed obedient on the surface, but were intensely controlling underneath, and their lavish lifestyle left him at a loss.

Even though they had once depended on each other and still felt attached, he knew they had never truly been a family.

So Mu Wan turned down their offer to live together.

Someone had bought the old house, and he had no choice but to ask the two for help. They took him home to stay while they discussed what to do, and looked after him with meticulous care, barely letting him go out.

Then, when Mu Wan went out to buy groceries again and nearly got lost, he returned to find the living room wrecked as if someone had broken in and ransacked it.

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At dinner, when the two reproached him for making them think he had left, Mu Wan furrowed his brow. "Once I buy back the old house, I'll move back there and live by myself sooner or later."

The two handed Mu Wan a glass of wine and apologized in gentle voices.

But through the blur of dizziness, the eyes of the usually refined man grew increasingly dark. "Wouldn't it be better if you stayed?"

The chain around his ankle was cold. He couldn't tell whether it was the older or younger brother kissing away the tears of fear at the corner of his eye. "Haven't we treated you well enough?"

He wanted to leave, but his frail body was no match for the two tall men who held him at their mercy.

"You still haven't learned your lesson. You don't want to abandon us again, do you, darling?"

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Reader's guide:

[Fragile Scholar-like Beauty x Gravity-Wielding Male Star / Dark, Obsessive CEO]

They aren't on the same household registration, and sharing a surname is purely coincidental

--2026.7.19

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