My Brother

Shen Yu fell from the sky.

He burst in at the very moment before someone could assault me and drove off the sleazy, well-spoken bastard who had drugged me.

When I saw his face, I was too stunned to speak.

He was so beautiful.

He looked like... the person I fantasized about while masturbating

myself, made infinitely more beautiful by my own imagination.

If he hadn't been missing a red mole on his cheek and a pair of canines, I would have thought he was me, grown up and transmigrated from some parallel universe.

He appeared in my life, shining like a god. He could do anything, and he took care of every problem for me: the teachers who slandered me, the classmates who bullied me, the relatives who harassed me... Everyone who had ever mistreated me got what they deserved.

He took me to live with him and personally helped me with my studies. I guessed he preferred well-behaved kids.

But when I started working hard for his sake, he stroked my head and told me I didn't need to try so hard.

He wouldn't let me date, interfered with my social life, and ruined a job I'd finally managed to find.

When I asked why, he hugged me and said I wasn't suited to doing those things. I should just spend his money and enjoy life.

Shen Yu was both teacher and friend.

Shen Yu was like an older brother and a father.

I didn't want to enjoy life. I only wanted to enjoy him.

I naively thought he liked me, too, until he slapped my lips so hard they split.

I had no social life and couldn't figure him out, so I posted for advice from strangers online.

They all said Shen Yu just wanted to keep me, not date me.

If you're being kept, you should know your place. How could you dream of topping your sugar daddy?

You should wash yourself clean, lie flat, and let him have his way with you.

I was disillusioned.

But I wasn't against it.

Shen Yu had a face that was a pleasure to look at, and he must be even more exciting in bed.

Every day, I wore a different style of school uniform to seduce him. Being compared with him, my only advantage was my youth. But after half a month, he actually stroked my head with a satisfied look and praised me for behaving better lately.

So I climbed on top of him and said I could behave even better.

He was so shocked that he kicked me right off the bed.

After that, Shen Yu seemed like a different person.

He stopped helping me bathe.

He refused to sleep in the same bedroom as me.

I couldn't find him on weekdays.

As soon as the weekend came, he made me go celebrity-spotting with him.

At meals, those celebrities practically glued their eyes to Shen Yu.

I didn't like them.

But it was the only way I could see Shen Yu.

One day, while Shen Yu was paying the bill, the young celebrity sitting across from me suddenly asked, "What do you think of me?"

Only then did I realize that I hadn't been celebrity-spotting all this time. I'd been going on blind dates.

In the past, all I had to do was act pitiful, and Shen Yu would agree to anything. Now I was in so much pain I could barely stand it, and he chose to turn a blind eye.

I was tired of eating with a different person every week. On one of the countless nights Shen Yu stayed out, I asked him for the contact details of that day's blind date.

It took him three whole months to reply: "You and he aren't right for each other."

Me: "Why?"

Shen Yu: "I tried him out for you. He's not great in various ways. Wait a little longer, and your brother will find someone better."

"..."

Three months later.

On a night of torrential rain,

Shen Yu, drenched from head to toe and looking grim, kicked open the door of the dilapidated apartment I'd just rented. "You little brat, do you like him that much? You'd even give up your brother for him?"

Note: Shen Yu was sexually assaulted in his previous life.

Theme: Never give up on yourself