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Lin Yu, older brother × Lin Wang, younger brother
Extreme little-brother-obsessed, sweet-on-the-outside but dark-on-the-inside older brother × lazy, introverted younger brother with mental health issues
Not related by blood | Older man/younger man
He was eighteen that year, crying his heart out at his parents' funeral. Everyone praised him for being such a devoted son. Nobody knew he'd tampered with the brakes on their car, all for the sake of his adopted younger brother, curled up in a corner and covered in bruises.
From then on, Lin Wang belonged to him alone.
He gave his brother the best of everything: a top-tier education, a spacious home, and endless indulgence. He could smile and tolerate his brother slapping him, and late at night, pin that slender wrist down and bow his head to kiss the palm of his hand.
He had only one rule: don't leave.
Lin Wang had thought about running away.
He'd tried planning a route, calculating the timing, and buying a one-way ticket to disappear into the vast sea of humanity. But reason told him it was impossible. Lin Yu's influence reached every corner he could go to. He couldn't escape.
Besides, he didn't know if he really wanted to.
The red thread was tied around his wrist, its other end clutched in Lin Yu's hand. He'd thought it was hatred, a shackle, an inescapable fate. Until one day, he realized the thread had long since stopped binding him.
It was leading him to Lin Yu.
"Lin Wang, come here."
The voice was still so gentle, like he was coaxing a child. Lin Wang stood still, watching the man across from him smile and hold out his hand. It was long-fingered, clean, with prominent knuckles. It had held his hand when he was eighteen, embraced him when he was twenty-two, and now, at twenty-six, it was still waiting for him to walk over.
He knew he could walk over.
He also knew he could choose not to.
But he still took that step.
Because the other end of that thread had never been Lin Yu's wrist.
It was his heart.
The red thread seemed to bind him, trip him, and trap him in a fate he couldn't escape.
But if it's you, then I won't run.
[Content Warnings]
They are not related by blood, but are listed as brothers on their household register.
Older man/younger man. Extreme little-brother obsession: Lin Yu lives by the motto, "As long as my brother is happy." He reserves the right to define what "happy" means.
Lin Yu is possessive of Lin Wang.
Lin Yu has a morally gray character.
Parents' deaths.
Unequal feelings.
Lin Wang has emotional issues.
Theme: Love makes a cliff feel like solid ground.
