Online advice wanted: What do I do if my little brother seems to have no sense of boundaries?
Well... he's the son of my dad's girlfriend, three years younger than me. He lives at our house, but he hasn't been added to our family register yet. He's clingy, and whenever we're together, I feel like something's off about him, but I can't put my finger on it.
For example, he always tagged along when I went on dates with my ex. Eventually my ex couldn't take it anymore and privately told him he needed to know his limits. He looked pitiful and asked my ex if he wanted me to lose my only little brother.
But when he got sick enough to burn with a fever and I canceled my date with my ex to take care of him, he urged me to go on the date so I wouldn't upset my ex...
Top-voted reply: Oh my god, the poster's little brother is obviously an expert manipulator, and he probably really likes you (doge). This kind of scheming puppy is totally my type. How about you send him over so I can help assess him? (Just kidding.)
Looking at the post she'd made on her phone, Yuan Xueli suddenly understood.
-Male lead's point of view-
#What do I do if my wife has been kidnapped by an online trafficker?
Before they were dragged into a cyberpunk campus romance by an online trafficker, Yuan Xueli and he had been lovers, relying on each other in a post-apocalyptic movie during a zombie outbreak.
Chu Siyi calmly assessed the situation:
Male lead (Xie Gesong): A country bumpkin who transferred in, a greasy mama's boy, and an expert at psychological manipulation, but with protagonist aura and a harem protagonist's charm.
Female lead (Yuan Xueli): A rich heiress, top student, and aloof beauty... and, more importantly, his stepsister.
That's right. In the story he'd stubbornly followed her into, he was the brash younger guy, three years her junior, doomed to love her without hope for the rest of his life and reduced to crawling around in the shadows.
Chu Siyi: “... Nice.”
Crawl my ass!
Watch him protect his “sister” with thunderous force!
The male lead warns him not to harbor improper thoughts about his sister (and get in the way of his quest to collect intimacy points from the heroine).
Chu Siyi (having secretly brought his sister along to eavesdrop beforehand, his flirtatious eyes welling with tears at just the right moment, long lashes fluttering): “Does Brother want my sister to lose her only little brother?”
Xie Gesong: “... Nice.”
What? Is something wrong with him?
When the male and female leads are giving each other the cold shoulder, he acts completely out of character and encourages Yuan Xueli to make up with the male lead.
Chu Siyi (weakly smiling with his feverish, delicate face tilted up): “More than you taking care of me, I don't want you to miss out on the person you love and regret it later.”
Yuan Xueli picks up her phone. On the screen are the male lead's relentless calls, all silenced and rejected, and one final ultimatum: “You have to choose between me and your brother!”
Yuan Xueli: “... Nice.”
The secret she hasn't told her “little brother” is that her memories seem to be loading.
Also known as:
“Male Lead, Disqualified”
“I Only Know How to Spoil My Sister”
“The Heroine and Her Scheming Little Puppy”
Theme: True love conquers the barriers of time and space