Claiming My Best Friend's Brother

Both leads are each other's first and only | Younger male lead turns gay | Love grows over time | Mutual devotion

Rational architect gong × Elegant professor shou

The serious blurb:

Who knows what it's like to get together with your best friend's older brother?

He Jianqiu knows.

He's an architect. He can design buildings and calculate load-bearing limits, but he can't figure out how he ended up falling for someone in his best friend's family.

He and his best friend are very close.

He Jianqiu used to think there was nothing he couldn't tell his friend. Until this happened, he had no idea how to break the news.

Was he supposed to say, "...Congratulations, you've got a brother-in-law like me now?"

Yu Peilin is his best friend's older brother.

He Jianqiu used to envy his friend for having such a great older brother. He never imagined that years later, he'd have this man in his arms.

The way he felt as a boy had long since changed.

Now, how could he let go, go back to how things were, and watch that man end up with someone else?

He Jianqiu couldn't do it.

If he likes men, why can't it be me?

I'm younger than those guys, more handsome, taller, with more hair, and I... like you more than they do...

Professor Yu, I like you.

And Yu Peilin had absolutely no idea.

He still thought that, between the two of them, he was the one who'd lost his head and his composure, and the one who was struggling to control his feelings and worrying about what might happen...

From the best friend's point of view:

This is a whole different story...

He Jianqiu, who'd been as likely to bloom as an iron tree, had fallen in love for the first time! And his love interest was some old man?!

When his friend found out, he said, "Wow, amazing!"

The curious friend begged to meet this "sister-in-law" several times, wanting to see what he looked like, but He Jianqiu was so secretive he wouldn't reveal a thing.

Then one day, the friend came back home halfway through his trip and happened to catch the two of them kissing and cuddling in his own house, with a hand that had just been pulled out from under his brother's clothes...

His vision went black. Trembling with rage, he snatched up the slipper at his feet and charged at them.

Damn it! Someone's stolen my home! I'm going to chop this bastard to pieces!

Simply put, this is the everyday story of a younger gong who calls him "Professor" to his face and "Wife" behind his back, brazenly stealing his buddy's older brother, and an older shou who doesn't realize he's a sucker for handsome faces, thinks his feelings are one-sided, and worries himself sick over it.

Reader advisory:

Romance is the focus, with careers as a side plot.

A short story, not very long, mostly about everyday life in the city. The writing is rather amateurish and the plot is relatively low-key. If it's not your thing, feel free to stop reading.

Theme: Add a little excitement to everyday life.