The Frail Adopted Son's Married Life [Reborn]

Marriage first, love later + older top

[Mature, steady top who loves him desperately & frail, sensitive, world-weary beauty bottom]

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In his previous life, Huai Yu was adopted by the Huai family as a substitute because he resembled the child they had lost.

He played the absurd role for seven years.

Just as Huai Yu came of age, the real young master of the Huai family returned.

In an instant, his world turned upside down.

His adoptive parents ignored him, the real young master treated him with malice, and even his fiance, to whom he had been engaged for years, took the initiative to call off their engagement.

Unwilling to accept it, Huai Yu struggled and fought despite his frail, sickly body. In the end, he was left with nothing and died alone in misery.

When he opened his eyes again, all he saw was white. The stench of disinfectant filled his nostrils, making him want to vomit. Needles covered the back of his hand, and the machine monitoring his heart rate hummed quietly.

Huai Yu had been reborn.

He had returned to the year the real young master came home and his fiance, Xi Zhao, came to the Huai family to call off their engagement.

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Xi Mingshan was Xi Zhao's uncle.

When he learned that Xi Zhao had recklessly gone to the Huai family to call off the engagement, even causing his fiancee's heart condition to flare up and putting her in the hospital, he ordered the family discipline and personally beat Xi Zhao until he was nearly dead.

On the day he came to apologize, Xi Mingshan saw Huai Yu again after many years.

The boy who had once smiled and called him Uncle Xi now leaned listlessly against his hospital bed, his pale, sharp chin lowered, seeming utterly indifferent to everything around him.

The Huai couple accused him of being immature. The real young master sneered and said he only knew how to threaten people with dying.

He ignored all three of them and fiddled with the needle in the back of his hand.

When he saw the visitor, he greeted him casually: "Uncle Xi."

Xi Mingshan suddenly changed his mind.

He was only a child who had just come of age. The engagement between the Xi and Huai families was still in place. If the Huai family couldn't raise him properly, there was no harm in letting him take over.

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After breaking off his engagement with Xi Zhao, Huai Yu married his uncle, Xi Mingshan, the powerful head of the Xi family.

Everyone thought Huai Yu was a parasitic vine clinging to Xi Mingshan, unable to live without him. The truth was exactly the opposite.

Huai Yu had a weak heart and a frail, sickly constitution. A single cold could land him in the hospital, and he could sleep for two or three days straight. He was more fragile than porcelain.

When the real young master returned, everyone treated Huai Yu like a fake and cast him aside. Xi Mingshan was the only one who insisted on pampering him like royalty and treasured him above all else.

At the slightest cough or frown, the usually composed man would toss and turn, unable to sleep all night, consumed by worry.

After living again, Huai Yu wanted nothing more than to live without restraint.

After they married, he kept calling Xi Mingshan "Uncle Xi," then recklessly climbed onto high platforms and accidentally fell into the water, doing one dangerous thing after another.

Xi Mingshan caught him and scolded him time and time again, but never once wanted to let him go. His broad hand gripped Huai Yu's wrist, tightening with every passing moment.

One night, after their passion had subsided,

Xi Mingshan let down his guard and clung desperately to the frail body in his arms.

His eyes bloodshot, he asked, "Xiao Yu, what do I have to do... to keep you here?"

Hearing this, Huai Yu looked up with a bright smile and wrapped his sweat-dampened arms around Xi Mingshan.

In a hoarse voice, he said, "Kiss my heart."

"You did the same thing in my previous life."

*Two barren lifetimes, not a blade of grass growing.

Huai Yu alone was the one and only treasure he had.

Reader's guide:

1. Handsome top and beautiful bottom, both each other's first and only, one-on-one, happy ending. The couple is completely devoted to each other.

2. The bottom has a slight everyone-loves-him quality. The top falls in love at first sight. Thirteen-year age gap, older top, growing-up-together romance.

3. Everyone will regret things after the rebirth (yes... it's that cheesy, and I love it T_T).

Theme: Intimacy needs to be nurtured with care