The Real Young Master Is from 1937

Ye Congjun was born in the Republic of China era and grew up amid chaos. When his homeland was shattered, he went to war with the army and died amid the artillery fire in 1937. Then he was born again in the peaceful modern age. Though fate had dealt him a cruel hand and he was an orphan with no parents in this life, Ye Congjun still felt grateful. Alone in the world, he drifted through life, unconstrained, carefree, and free. Until his nineteenth birthday, when someone showed up with a paternity test and told him he was the real young master of a wealthy family.

He had thought that a family reunion would mean tearful embraces. Instead, his wealthy parents took his hands and said, "The fake young master is innocent. The medical staff mixed you up, and he didn't know. Now that his parents are both dead and he has nowhere to go, we've decided to let him stay with the Ye family. You must get along."

His elder and younger brothers were also wary of his selfishness, scheming nature, ruthless methods, and complicated relationships. They warned him to stay away from the fake young master: "In our hearts, only the fake young master is our real brother."

Watching the Ye family perform their picture-perfect family act with such conviction, Ye Congjun smiled. So why had they gone to all that trouble to bring him back?

Even more amusingly, on the very night he returned to the wealthy family, Ye Congjun had a dream. He dreamed he was the villain in a story about a real and fake young master. Resenting the fake young master for usurping his place and stealing his life, he constantly targeted and framed him. Even after driving him out of the family, he kept trying to destroy him. Naturally, in the end, the real young master's true nature was exposed, while the fake young master was cleared of all charges but left utterly disillusioned. Everyone regretted their actions and came crawling back, begging for forgiveness with their hearts in their hands.

Ye Congjun had no interest in the main plot's cloying, angsty melodrama, but he was intrigued by the future information mentioned only in passing in the book.

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The wealthy Ye family had brought back their real young master. Orphaned and lacking discipline, he was wild and brimming with hostility. Yet he had a strikingly beautiful, dangerous, untamed, and rakish appearance. Everyone wanted to tame him with money and power. Unfortunately, Ye Congjun had never been a puppet who could be trapped in a mold and trained to obey.

He had seen the decadent glamour of the foreign concessions in the storm-tossed age of chaos, and the monuments built of flesh and blood on battlefields filled with artillery fire. To him, worldly money, power, and romance were nothing but amusements to relieve boredom. Following fragments of the future from the book, he took a turn through the world of fame and fortune. The power and wealth others chased so desperately were his for the taking too.

The blood relatives who had once been so critical and wary of him realized that neither money nor power could tame him, and came around under the banner of family affection.

The fake young master's admirers, who had once looked down on and despised him, realized that money and power couldn't suppress him, and clung to him under the banner of repentance.

Even the fake young master, with whom he had a complicated relationship, wanted to spend his whole life making it up to him, claiming he owed him.

Ye Congjun had lived a carefree life, and there had never been a shortage of shady friends to carouse and conspire with. If they got along, he would have fun with them; if they didn't, he would part ways. He would never stay for anyone. The only person who gave him pause was the powerful head of the Sheng family, who had offered him a sincere heart from the very beginning and silently supported, guided, and accepted him.

Sheng Junhuai, who had spent years carefully weaving a net for his beloved, smiled faintly. When an older man plans for love, how could he not devote himself to it and plot every step?

Theme: Love yourself before loving another