A Crush from the Sky, But I Called Him the Wrong Brother

The blurb for my upcoming novel, The Dragon-Aura Protagonist Insists We Get a Happy Ending, is below.

Blurb for this novel:

At seventeen, Sheng Zhi grabbed a stranger's sleeve at the hospital and called him "big brother."

The young man turned around, startled. Then the corners of his eyes curved as he leaned closer with a smile. "Hmm? Since when did I get such a cute little brother?"

Sheng Zhi's ears instantly turned red.

How embarrassing. So embarrassing.

He stammered an apology, turned, and slipped away into the crowd.

That night, Sheng Zhi tossed and turned, unable to sleep. All he could think about were the smiling eyes of that young man.

Why did I... not ask for his contact information?

Perhaps Heaven heard his wish. On the first day of school, his homeroom teacher brought in a transfer student from abroad. It was the handsome guy he'd mistaken for his brother at the hospital.

Keeping up a calm front, Sheng Zhi immediately opened the friend group chat and flooded it with reaction images:

"I hereby announce that I'm going to start dating!"

The group was shocked. "?? Has our well-behaved class monitor of over ten years been possessed??"

But they still congratulated him and asked who the lucky guy was.

Sheng Zhi pressed his lips together to hide his grin and typed back: "I'm pursuing him. It's a secret~"

Then he rested his head on the desk, already imagining all the wonderful futures he could share with that guy.

But Sheng Zhi's first crush lasted a mere twenty-four hours.

As soon as he got home from school that afternoon, his eldest brother led him over to a boy in a school uniform, his voice brimming with excitement.

"Xiao Zhi, we've found your second brother."

Sheng Zhi looked downstairs and froze completely.

That face, the person he'd just announced he planned to pursue

was the second brother he'd lost contact with nearly ten years ago, the one he'd been glued to as a child.

His vision went black.

Sheng Zhi heard something crack inside him.

It wasn't his heart starting to race. It was breaking.

His first love was over before it had even begun.

Even worse, his parents kept reminding him, "Your second brother just came back and hasn't settled in yet. Spend some time with him."

Sheng Zhi's head began to spin.

He hasn't settled in?

I'm the one who's about to lose it here!!

*

The day Wen Xing accompanied his adoptive father to a follow-up appointment, he met a boy who grabbed him, called him big brother, and ran off.

On the way home, his adoptive father asked with a smile, "You like him so much. Why didn't you stop him and ask for his contact information?"

"He ran too fast." Wen Xing gazed out the window, his eyes still full of amusement.

"Besides... if we're meant to meet, we'll meet again."

But he never expected to see him again so soon.

Nor did he expect that the person who made him think, "Having a little brother might be nice," really would be his little brother.

Couple: seemingly aloof, gentle, secretly flirtatious transfer-student top x truly pampered, sharp-tongued but soft-hearted young master bottom

Reader notes:

1. Bottom's point of view. They are not related by blood, and they aren't registered in the same household. A two-person story about an exclusive, devoted couple. An uncomplicated romance-focused story.

2. The top is assumed to be on the left and the bottom on the right. If the character cards are reversed, it's only because that arrangement makes the illustrations look better.

3. Top's POV and bottom's POV refer only to the writing perspective. Both are protagonists. Readers who prefer a single-male-lead power fantasy or only support one of the two should please move along. Thank you for understanding.

4. This couple is the best match in the world. Please don't self-insert, break them up, reverse their roles, or pit them against each other. Comments and usernames of that kind, including joking ones, will be deleted. Thank you for understanding.

5. My writing and imagination are limited, so readers who demand perfectly equal treatment for both members of the couple should read with caution. Thank you for your understanding.

Upcoming novel blurb

A straight college student stays up all night reading a power-fantasy novel. The tragic fate of Yan Zijin, a cannon-fodder character in One Sword, One Heart, makes him so furious he pounds his bed and nearly dies on the spot.

He wants to climb into the book and shake the lovesick cannon fodder awake. "Stop loving him! That dragon-aura protagonist doesn't have a heart!"

Just as he's about to send the author an eight-hundred-word essay, a mechanical voice addresses him:

"Strong desire detected. You are invited to enter the world of One Sword, One Heart and serve as the 'plot-correction System.' Bound character: Yan Zijin. Mission: help him change his tragic fate in the book. Whether the mission succeeds or fails, it will have no effect on you."

"Do you accept?"

The college student leaps to his feet. "I accept! This ridiculous plot has to change!"

And so he becomes the "System" inside Yan Zijin's mind.

The young master he's bound to is richly dressed and pampered, with an air of haughty elegance. After hearing the prediction of his own "cannon-fodder fate," he simply smiles brilliantly at his reflection in the mirror.

"Do you think... I look like cannon fodder?"

The System: "..." (A dreadful premonition strikes.)

Sure enough, at the centennial festival, Yan Zijin stands atop a rainbow bridge. His gaze meets that of Xie Chen Yin, the future dragon-aura protagonist who will cleave the heavens with one sword and perfect the merciless path.

The System panics and tries to stop him. "He cultivates the merciless path. He's cold and heartless! He has no heart!"

Yan Zijin seems not to hear it. Suddenly, he leaps straight off the high bridge.

The System's vision goes black. It's over. The mission's going to fall apart from the start!

But the catastrophe it expected never happens.

Xie Chen Yin raises a hand and catches him safely. The young man in black furrows his brow, his voice cool. "What could possibly make you so desperate?"

The System has barely let out half a breath of relief when Yan Zijin laughs softly to it in his mind. "See? He's not that cold..."

Before he can finish, Xie Chen Yin sets him down and turns to leave, his robes fluttering as he strides away without hesitation.

The System immediately perks up. "I told you! He's cold and heartless, and doesn't care about you at all! Host, you need to wake up, "

Before it can finish, Yan Zijin's unhurried voice in its mind cuts in:

"Oh? Then tell me..."

"Why were the tips of his ears so red they looked ready to drip blood when he held me just now?"

The System: "...Huh?"

Wait, has the plot been falling apart from the start???

After that, the System watches its Host take the plot into increasingly unspeakable depths every day, while making the future Sword Sovereign lose his cool and abandon his stoic mask. At last, it sinks into deep contemplation:

Who, exactly, is correcting whose plot?!

Couple:

Pure-hearted dragon-aura protagonist top x haughty cannon-fodder bottom

Reader notes:

1. One-on-one, both are each other's first and only love. An uncomplicated romance-focused story.

2. The blurb is told from the System's perspective; the novel itself is told from the bottom's perspective.

3. The System is genuinely straight and only a supporting character. It won't fall for anyone. The only protagonists are Yan Zijin and Xie Chen Yin.

Theme: Love will bring us together again in the end. Cherish the person in front of you.