My Frail Older Brother and I [GB]

Starts July 8, 2026

*Not related by blood

[Hard-hitting, cool girl with hearing loss who can understand her older brother x Frail older brother with self-destructive tendencies]

Bao Ying is deaf in her right ear, and the children in Donghu Village all call her Little Deafie.

Her mother died when she was five, leaving her to live with her alcoholic father, who also liked to beat her. Whenever he was about to hit her, she would hide on the roof or run to the auntie next door.

When she was seven, a handsome boy moved into the pretty little house on the street in front of hers. Bao Ying's father told her that, according to the village's kinship customs, she should call the boy “older brother.”

Her hearing was poor, and she could barely speak clearly, but she still rasped out the word.

From that moment on, Zhuang Wen became Bao Ying's brother for life.

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Zhuang Wen had a rare bone disease he'd had since birth. When the pain flared, it felt like a knife boring into his bones.

When he was ten, his beloved mother died, and his father sent him to the family home in the countryside under the pretense of letting him recuperate. But Zhuang Wen knew he'd been abandoned. His father had given up on his sick son and wanted to raise the illegitimate child he kept outside the family instead.

He lived in the countryside with a nanny. Whenever the pain hit, Zhuang Wen thought it would be better to just die.

Until one night, a torrential downpour triggered a landslide that threatened to bury the entire village.

The whole village had evacuated, but Zhuang Wen was the only one missing.

While everyone else fled for their lives, Bao Ying ran back like a madwoman.

Her brother was still inside.

In the little house, the boy lay quietly, waiting for death to take his futile life.

Bao Ying tugged at him, but he didn't move.

She didn't make a fuss. She just called out once:

“Brother.”

Then she lay down on the floor, put a pillow under her head, and prepared to die with him.

For the first time, Zhuang Wen panicked.

He could die, but he couldn't ruin the life of this child who only knew how to call him “Brother.”

The moment the two children ran out of the house, the landslide swallowed it whole behind them.

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Later, he took her to get treatment for her hearing, brought her to the provincial capital, and gritted his teeth through the pain so he could go abroad for treatment.

But Bao Ying's father turned around and sold her off to the south.

Zhuang Wen, still recovering from surgery, endured excruciating bone pain as he frantically searched for Bao Ying.

In the end, all he heard was: Bao Ying had been swept away by a flood.

That time, the pain left him with a lifelong condition.

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They reunited five years later.

The timid little deaf girl from back then had grown taller, tougher, and more capable of shouldering responsibility.

And the frail young master had slowly taken hold of power.

Bao Ying became Zhuang Wen's legs, and his blade.

Pei Baoying: If I can settle it with my fists, I won't waste words.

Zhuang Wen: If I can settle it with words, I won't lift a finger.

Reading guide:

Both leads are virgins.

The story takes its time warming up.

Set in a fictional world spanning the end of the last century and the start of this one.

Theme: Growing toward the sun