Half-Brother

This story will go premium on Sunday, with three chapters released that day. Thanks for your support. (Also: chapters 1–26 will be locked starting with chapter 27, so if you've been saving up chapters, remember to read the ones already updated.) [Melancholy, aloof top scholar's illegitimate older brother X innocent, sweet little ray of sunshine] Two lonely souls seeking warmth / Mutual redemption / Doting on each other / HE / No intimate or romantic ambiguity while they remain siblings Her mother died young, her father favored her half-sister, and Yijia grew up all alone in the sprawling mansion, reaching the age of six in solitude. That is, until her taciturn and unpopular half-brother saved her. From that day on, Yijia grew close to the older brother who had saved her. Though he was cold and quiet, he was always there to help whenever she needed him. Gradually, no one in Yijia's heart mattered more than her second older brother. He was her brother, her family, the only person in the household she could depend on and trust. But then, one day, he was no longer her second older brother. They became strangers with no blood relation. -- To Jiang Mingji, who was indifferent to feelings, there was nothing in this world worth caring about except his little sister, Yijia. When he was still an unknown, his birth mother despised him and his relatives ignored him. Only that little girl tried to pierce the wall of aloofness he kept around himself, gazing at him with round, almond-shaped eyes as she called him