After the Frail Young Master Was Targeted by His Obsessive Childhood Friend

*My upcoming novel: A Frail, Blind Little Boy from the Republic of China Era

Sheng Yuan, the five-year-old frail darling of the Sheng family, is the apple of everyone's eye.

But one day, little Sheng awakens from his illness and discovers that he is actually a troublemaking cannon-fodder character in an old-fashioned wealthy-family novel. Simply because he refuses to marry the fated male lead, he is doomed to a tragic end.

Trembling, little Sheng Yuan hugs his own chubby self and decides to claim the male lead as his husband ahead of time. He leaves behind a note saying, "I'm going to find a husband!" then marches right out the door.

The Sheng family rushes to a poor little town, only to find their own tiny boy in fine overalls stuffing a gold pocket watch into the hands of a ragged little wolf cub.

"He's not some poor boy! He's my husband! Nobody's allowed to say anything bad about him!"

The Sheng family: "..." They nearly faint.

*

At the Sheng house, nobody likes this cold, distant boy.

But Sheng Yuan won't listen to their nonsense. His big brother is so good, how could he possibly be a terrible person?

He only knows that Lu Zhi lets him hug his pillow, and whenever another child comes near, one look from Lu Zhi is enough to scare them away.

He sticks to Lu Zhi all day, asking for hugs, and proudly declares, "Big Brother Lu Zhi is the best!"

*

Years later, Lu Zhi becomes a business legend, and Sheng Yuan grows into the refined and aloof young master of the Sheng family. Yet he still habitually clings to Lu Zhi's side, spoiled beyond measure.

He congratulates himself on his excellent taste. He picked the fated one, escaped his cannon-fodder fate, and gets to lie flat and live like a lazy fish.

Then he accidentally knocks over a diary.

Yellowed pages spill open, covered in countless pictures of Sheng Yuan: at five, at ten, and now; smiling, sleeping, performing... Beneath every photo is a line of writing that seems to tear through the paper.

"Mine." "Mine." "Mine."

Line after line, a silent, frenzied declaration of obsession spanning more than twenty years.

Sheng Yuan coughs in fright, choking over and over as he desperately recalls the original novel he skimmed while delirious with fever at five. It said two people had come from that poor little town.

One was the fated male lead who rose to great heights.

The other was the future mastermind, whose hands would be stained with blood...

The story's ultimate villain.

A velvet ribbon gently binds his wrist, and he falls into Lu Zhi's burning embrace.

"Baby, what are you looking at?"

Reader's Guide:

1. The childhood arc is fairly long. The romance develops after they grow up.

2. There is a secondary couple: the bottom's two dads. The setting is an alternate modern city where same-sex marriage and childbirth are possible. Please don't overthink the worldbuilding.

--Upcoming Novel--

Cheng Lesheng is a frail, blind boy with no parents in the Republic of China era. The cargo ship taking him to Southeast Asia capsizes, but the waves carry him to the prosperous twenty-first century.

To survive, he marries into the Fu family under the pretense of bringing good fortune to their notorious eldest son.

On their wedding night, before the veil is lifted, he kneels and kowtows three times. He cannot see the opulence around him; he only knows that after their wedding night, he will be this man's wife.

--"A wife must observe her duties. Serving her husband is only natural."

Even if this husband seems unwilling to so much as look at him.

*

Fu Shiyu is the Fu family's most hopeless good-for-nothing. In her desperation, the family matriarch has somehow arranged for him to marry a man to bring him good fortune.

The young master is thoroughly annoyed. Who starts a marriage by kowtowing?

But now there's a little shadow trailing behind him, calling, "Young Master, young master, young master..."

What a nuisance.

To make the little blind boy quiet down, Fu Shiyu reluctantly takes to feeding him.

He gives him a custom-made white cane and the latest smartwatch with a phone; spends a fortune raising him to be plump and healthy, and even sends him to school; he even taps into global medical resources, all to cure those beautiful, lifeless eyes.

For the first time, the young master who used to waste his days gets serious. Night after night, he grits his teeth over financial reports, fighting for power in the cutthroat business world.

Taking advantage of Lesheng's blindness, Fu Shiyu says casually, "Your young master is actually incredible. The whole business world listens to me. I'll protect you."

The little blind boy looks up, his eyes shining with admiration.

*

A few years later, the Fu family undergoes a seismic change. The useless eldest son who never applied himself becomes an untouchable business magnate, ruthless and merciless, with an iron fist.

Everyone speculates that the burden he married to bring good fortune will soon be thrown out onto the street.

Until, at a business summit, a rival sets a deadly trap in an attempt to swallow the Fu Group.

At the negotiating table, the little blind boy at Fu Shiyu's side, always dismissed as a dependent clinging to a wisteria vine, takes off his sunglasses at the crucial moment, revealing clear, smiling eyes.

His long fingers tap lightly on a chart tracing the flow of funds. With a few words and a laugh, he turns the hundred-billion-yuan wager on its head and utterly crushes the opposition.

The whole room is stunned.

*

That night, in a locked lounge.

Cheng Lesheng, who had just dominated the stage, is now curled up in President Fu's arms.

He prods the man's chest with a fingertip, pouting. "It's all your fault, Young Master. My hand is so sore. I'm not going over next quarter's accounts..."

Fu Shiyu resignedly massages his joints, then leans close to Lesheng's flushed ear and murmurs something shameless and outrageous.

Cheng Lesheng has never heard anything like it. He bites his reddened lips.

"You... have no shame!"

Fu Shiyu looks at the person in his arms, whose face has turned completely red, then kisses him at his leisure.

Theme: The light of righteousness shines upon the earth!