* A warm, child-rearing story. The first part focuses on the little kids at the orphanage, their everyday lives, and how they help each other heal.
* The seme and uke have an eight-year age gap, with the seme older. But fictional characters stay young and beautiful forever.
The Beloved Little Darling of a Rich Family is a melodramatic, adored-by-everyone novel. The protagonist, Wen Ning, is the family's fake young master. He suffers physically and emotionally in the first half, but after enduring hardship, he eventually wins everyone's love.
The moment Wen Lili opens his eyes, he realizes he has become the novel's real young master, a cruel and vulgar boy.
According to the plot, he will spend ten years suffering in an orphanage. After being brought home, he will take out all his resentment on the fake young master.
He will exploit his parents' and older brother's guilt, constantly framing the protagonist and driving a wedge between them. In the end, his schemes will be exposed, his eldest brother will finally kick him out, and he will die miserably on the streets.
At that moment, he is at the very first stage of the plot: he's just been switched by accident and abandoned at the orphanage entrance.
How terrifying!
As the plot comes flooding into his mind, Wen Lili bursts into tears in his swaddling clothes.
His loud sobbing draws over a group of other background characters at the orphanage, all destined to be cannon fodder.
The handsome Xiao, who will try to make it in entertainment but always be overshadowed by the protagonist: "Is that a baby or a pink monkey?"
The beautiful Mei, who will become a leading scientist but have her research stolen by the protagonist's older brother: "He's crying so hard, maybe he's a little dummy."
The robust Dazhuang, who will hold multiple drug patents but be forced to work as the protagonist's family doctor: "So noisy. Give him some sleeping pills."
Wen Lili: "!"
Waaah! Is my miserable life at the orphanage about to begin?
Trembling, Wen Lili raises his little hands, trying to pull himself out of this terrifying place.
Then another pair of hands catches him.
It's the nine-year-old future villain!
He mainly appears in the second half of the novel, one of the few rising stars capable of standing alongside the Wen family. His ambition leads him to do many bad things, but the protagonist easily defeats him in the end.
Wen Lili: Are... are all of us this miserable?
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When Shen Mu was nine, he went to the orphanage by himself. He had parents, but he was nearly starving to death.
He had seen orphanages on TV. They were filled with coldness, abandonment, and neglect.
He had no expectations for his future. He just wanted to find somewhere he could survive and grow up.
Then, at the orphanage, he met a vain little brother, a little sister who loved showing off, and a neurotic older brother...
And a tiny child who had every one of those traits.
Suddenly, he had something to look forward to: every day, he would be busy cleaning up the messes made by his unreliable "family"!
Most importantly, he had to keep track of every one of the fussy Wen Lili's likes. Otherwise, the little fussbudget would hide in a corner, sniffling and asking if Shen Mu hated him.
At first, Shen Mu thought he was only trying to avoid trouble. Later, he realized that the ache in his heart whenever Wen Lili was even slightly upset was called compassion.
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The eldest son of the Wen family has a dream. In it, his younger brother isn't Wen Ning but a bad child named Wen Lili.
The bad child is gloomy and jealous, and in the end, the eldest brother cannot stand him anymore and abandons him.
Only after waking up does the eldest son of the Wen family realize that, in the dream, he regretted it.
He regretted losing his younger brother, letting him grow up warped in such a terrible environment, and then carelessly throwing him away without patience.
The eldest son of the Wen family immediately sets out for the orphanage from his dream. His younger brother is only eighteen, so there is still time to raise him right.
But when he reaches the orphanage, he can't find the timid, gloomy, distant Wen Lili from his dream.
Instead, there is a beautiful, proud child who looks like he grew up surrounded by love.
Wen Lili is packing his things. After learning why the man has come, he simply smiles and says, "Sorry, my brother's here to take me home."
The eldest son of the Wen family is stunned. It wasn't like this in the dream.
When he turns around, the rising star who makes everyone wary is staring at him darkly.
"Lili." Shen Mu naturally takes the child's luggage and pulls him into his arms with easy intimacy.
Then he glances at the eldest son of the Wen family, openly challenging him.
* Feudal, domineering, few-words seme × Pretty, spoiled baby uke who loves to pout and doesn't realize it
Theme: There is always warmth in the world.