Late one night, after working overtime, Bai Jiansheng found a young man badly injured on his way home.
The man had a face remarkably similar to that of his childhood friend. Surely he had to be the long-lost brother he’d been separated from years ago.
Out of kindness, Bai Jiansheng immediately took him home to treat his injuries. After all, he had a spacious estate and a team of specially hired medical professionals.
The downside of letting it slip that he was rich was that the man started clinging to him. If he said he was doing it for the money, then maybe a man wasn’t out of the question...?
The man, named Zenin Toji, said he was willing to be his double, and that he’d master all the necessary techniques.
“Hey. I look a lot like that guy, don’t I?”
Bai Jiansheng wasn’t into men, especially not flippant men who had given up on themselves.
The only thing in the man’s favor was that his face looked like Megumi’s.
But the point was, he didn’t like men.
With a physique and state of mind like that, the man would be better off as a bodyguard. He could earn an honest living with his strength instead of selling himself.
Bai Jiansheng kindly pointed him toward another path, unaware that, before long, rumors were circulating throughout the Bai Group that the president had spent years pining after his unattainable first love, only to be rejected.
Then one day, a bodyguard whose face looked at least eighty percent like that of his first love appeared.
The rumors took a new turn: the president couldn’t win over his first love, so he’d started keeping a little stand-in instead!
And the little stand-in even looked burlier than the real thing!
Bai Jiansheng was too busy trying and failing to get in touch with Fushiguro Megumi to pay any attention to the gossip. But that didn’t mean the other person involved could stand by and watch the rumors spread.
His childhood friend, who had once declared, “We’re not from the same world,” and then avoided him ever since, showed up again. Bai Jiansheng thought he’d had a change of heart and had finally agreed to get away from his family of human traffickers.
Just as Bai Jiansheng was preparing to introduce him to Toji, his long-lost brother, Fushiguro Megumi beat him to the question: “Do you still like me?”
Of course he did... Wait, why was he blushing? What kind of liking did Megumi mean?
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1. There’s actually no stand-in and no first love.
3. The childhood trauma was his childhood friend being sold to a white-haired delinquent by his dad.
4. The two leads in the title are Zenin Toji, a single dog from a parallel world, age eighteen,
5. and Fushiguro Megumi, an AU version of the original, age twenty-eight, head of the Zenin family, living a peaceful and prosperous life.
6. There’ll be plenty of melodrama, gloom, and twisted darkness.
Theme: His lover turns out to be his own company.
