Coming soon: [A Dog-Blood Father-and-Son Love Triangle] (Title may change when it begins)
*Father-and-son love triangle / domineering patriarch becomes the other man
*Over-the-top, melodramatic, old-fashioned wish fulfillment
When Xia Xiangbei was sixteen, a friend joked that he had a face made to trick men.
Back then, his older brother doted on him as if he were a precious jewel. Because of that remark, Xia Xiangbei threw a huge tantrum in front of his brother.
But the words turned out to be prophetic. On his eighteenth birthday, holding back tears, Xia Xiangbei accepted a man's business card in a bar alley and decided to become a coldhearted, loveless gold-digger who only cared about making money.
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He was lucky and effortlessly climbed into the lap of luxury.
The man carried himself with lazy nonchalance and reckless elegance, standing out even among all the wealthy people in suits.
The man noticed him watching and smiled as if he found it amusing. As he walked over, the others made way for him. He casually struck up a conversation and asked, "So, have you picked someone you like from among us?"
When his brother was around, he never let anyone speak so flirtatiously to his pretty little brother.
Xia Xiangbei glared back fiercely and called the man an old bastard and shameless. The man raised an eyebrow, smiled, called him "poor little thing," and handed him a business card.
Xia Xiangbei never went to see the man.
Instead, he snagged Liang Lixin, the heir to a renowned pharmaceutical and biotech group.
This cool and handsome young heir obeyed him like his older brother had, and was practically crazy about him.
Though he was an only child and meant to inherit the family business, Liang Lixin said he loved him and wanted to leave everything behind and elope with him.
"I can't leave," Xia Xiangbei said. "If you really love me, then marry me and take me home."
Liang Lixin brought him home and introduced him to his father, Liang Songxue.
Liang Songxue was the current head of the group. He had a troublesome biological son whose mother was out of the picture.
He was calculating, warm on the outside and cold within, and utterly indifferent to everything in the world.
So when Xia Xiangbei recognized him as the man who had given him a business card that night, he thought, Oh no.
What had he called this shameless old bastard that day?
Xia Xiangbei was just as fierce as he had been that night. Liang Songxue gave him a meaningful look but didn't expose the young man's lie.
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On the day he learned he couldn't marry his young husband, Xia Xiangbei wept in utter despair.
"Liang Songxue... you bastard! Go die!"
The mastermind behind the scheme draped his coat over his arm and leaned over to watch him cry with amused interest. His eyes grew more and more merry as his long fingers gently brushed Xia Xiangbei's pitifully beautiful face.
The engagement ring was still on Xia Xiangbei's ring finger, constricting his heart.
The man before him raised his long brows and said without a trace of hesitation, "There is more than one way to save your brother... Xiaobei, make sure you don't choose the wrong one."
1. The top is faithful. The top is faithful. The top is faithful.
2. Feudal patriarch × fiery, spoiled bottom. The father is the official partner, but the son also gets plenty of scenes; father and son compete for him all the way to the end.
3. Modern alternate universe, old-school melodramatic rich-family drama. Since I'm writing this niche, dog-blood father-and-son theme, cut me some slack.
3. Neither the top nor the red-shirt top is a good person. They have no sense of morality.
Theme: Family harmony