* Puppy love, childhood friends, hopeless unrequited love, an obvious age gap
A story that starts in karting and goes all the way to F1...
When Ilya was eight, his father sent him to the illustrious Moretti family as a "gift."
Luca Moretti was ten when he reached out to him from the spiral staircase, becoming a light in his bleak childhood.
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"People imagine a genius racing driver's story begins with a sudden moment of realization.
But for me, it all began with Luca Moretti.
He came into my life too soon.
Back then, I couldn't tell whether I admired racing,
or admired the way he drove."
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He came into his life too soon, like a problem beyond his level.
Ilya spends his entire youth trying to figure it out, unable to tell whether he's drawn to the light or longs to be something the light can call its own.
He learns to behave, to please, and to rebel just enough in front of Luca.
He thinks he's hidden it well.
Until Luca wins a world championship before him and gets a "PR girlfriend" from a family of equal standing.
Only then does Ilya understand that he was never truly part of that dazzling world.
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Then he'll do things differently.
With fate's prophecy and the call to compete for the WDC, he takes to the track and floors the gas pedal.
--If he can't become your family, then he'll become the one and only challenger before your throne.
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Luca has done two things in his life that were beyond his control.
First, when he was ten, he inexplicably accepted the beautiful boy his father had "gifted" him.
Second, at twenty-five, he personally yielded the way to him before the finish line of the World Championship.
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[Beautiful useless boy turns out to be a genius driver x Gentlemanly older brother turns out to be a control-freak obsessive]
1. An alternate-universe F1 setting, childhood friends, older man raising younger man, the younger one secretly in love with the older one.
2. The older one has a PR girlfriend. He struggles with his heterosexuality at first, then goes mad with love.
3. Both are chaste, happy ending.
Theme: Is fate impossible to overcome?
