Love Falls Deep in the Alley

The author is working hard to update... Hi! Hello everyone, please allow me to introduce myself. My pen name is Yuyuan Xiang. You can call me Xiang Xiang/Xiang Soap... This pen name is based on my name in real life. Sorry if there is any confusion! Overall story In the early years of the Republic of China, five-year-old Dai Zhinan followed his remarried mother Liu Meihe into the Shanghai salt merchant Dai's family and became the younger brother of his eldest son Dai Youlun. Dai Zhinan was timid by nature and had too delicate appearance, so he was not loved by his father Dai Shouzheng, but he was remembered by the eight-year-old Dai Youlun in an almost possessive way on the first day - the cup of warm milk delivered to the room late at night was the starting point of their long bond. During their childhood together, Dai Youlun's "bullying" of Dai Zhinan gradually changed from status suppression and teasing to quiet protection and nourishment. He taught him to read, buy candy, and accompany him through thunderstorm nights. In the twenty-sixth year of the Republic of China, war broke out. Dai Shouzheng led Dai Youlun to retreat south, while Liu Meihe took Dai Zhinan to flee westward. The family was completely separated under the gunfire. Dai Youlun followed his father, but encountered a trap set up by a business rival. Dai Shouzheng died in an "accidental" fire, and his property was divided up. He was reduced from a young master to a dock coolie and a kitchen handyman, spending countless days and nights at the bottom. But he never gave up on living - because there was a name in his heart, and that name made him survive all the days when he couldn't see the light. Liu Meihe took Dai Zhinan around the countryside, hiding in ruined temples, caves, and abandoned mills. Food is getting less and less, and the sound of cannons is getting closer. In the spring when Dai Zhinan was sixteen, a group of defeated warlords broke into the village where they were hiding. Liu Meihe pushed her son into the cellar and closed the door. Before he could turn around, he was dragged out. His mother did not survive that spring, and Dai Zhinan continued his wandering journey. After the war, Dai Youlun did not choose revenge. Instead, he devoted all his energy to rebuilding the family business, using the remaining connections of the Dai family and the fierceness he had honed from the bottom to regain a foothold. After the business was stable, he devoted all his efforts to find someone. From south to north, from the trenches to the asylum, everyone said that the lame boy might have died on the way, but he didn't listen. On the day I found Dai Zhinan, the magnolia flowers in Shanghai bloomed again. Dai Zhinan was huddled in the corner of an alley. Although he was not too thin to lose his shape, he was severely malnourished. There were signs of being beaten on his body. The color of his clothes was indistinguishable. His hair covered half of his face, like a fallen leaf pushed to the base of the wall by the wind. Dai Youlun pushed the hair from his forehead and called "Zhinan". The moment those eyes that had been dry for a long time finally burst into tears when they saw him. When Dai Zhinan was picked up by him, he trembled all over and said, "Brother, I'm dirty." Dai Youlun lowered his head, put his lips on his forehead, and only said: "Be good, brother, I will take you home." For many years after that, when Dai Zhinan woke up at night, Dai Youlun would take him into his arms and hold him in his arms all night long. He never asked him what he saw in his dream, he just held him. Intention: I wish to win the heart of one person and stay together forever