Brother, I Didn't Mean To!

Si Chi was raised by his older brother, Si Yi.

Si Yi was only seven years older, but ever since they were children, he had managed Si Chi's grades, health, clothes, friends, and love life.

Even after Si Chi turned eighteen and started college, Si Yi kept a close watch on him, completely disregarding Si Chi's perfectly reasonable and legal right to personal freedom.

During the summer after the college entrance exam, Si Chi finally caught Si Yi too busy with work to come home. He went to the bar recently opened by a bad influence of a friend to let loose.

In the hazy lights and heady smell of alcohol, Si Chi caught sight of a cool, solitary figure in the dim corner.

Broad shoulders, a narrow waist, and long hair reaching the waist. The white shirt stood out against the surrounding haze of alcohol and indulgence.

Closer, closer still. Si Chi could even make out the fair, flushed nape of his neck and a bright red mole behind his left earlobe. Si Chi was about to ask, "Want to have a drink together?" when the man who seemed so out of place turned around.

"Bro, what are you doing here?!"

What was he supposed to do? His crush at first sight was his own brother!

How could his old-fashioned brother Si Yi possibly come to a place like this?!

Wait, no. Bro, why are you here during your rut, too?

Don't come any closer! We're biological brothers! And we're both Alphas!

This can't end well!

Si Chi's legs gave way, and he nearly collapsed as his brother, in the middle of his rut, dragged him into a dark room.

After a night of passion, Si Chi stared at the ceiling, trying to piece his worldview back together.

In less than a day, he had lost his love-at-first-sight crush, his brother, bound to him by blood, and his first time!

"A Chi, I think I can explain..." Si Yi once again put on the reasonable manner of a mature adult.

Si Chi considerately cut him off. "It's okay. You don't need to say anything, bro. I understand. I understand everything. I'll pretend nothing happened."

He thought he was being considerate and generous. After all, his brother had raised him, so he couldn't blame him. But his usually cool and composed brother's eyes filled with an unshakable gloom.

*

An older brother is an older brother. He can't become a boyfriend.

Si Chi picked up the pieces of his shattered worldview and put them back together, then forced himself to act as naturally as before around Si Yi.

But if something happens once, it can happen twice, and then a third time. After countless more nights of passion, Si Chi's resolve began to crumble.

"Bro, is this something actual brothers are supposed to do?" Si Chi asked, trembling.

His beautiful older brother, as cold as snowy peaks, gave him a captivating smile. "Of course, my dear little brother."

*

At twenty-five, Si Yi had two things he hated most in life. First, being chained to the Si family as their workhorse because they had adopted him. Second, being treated as an older brother by Si Chi, whom he had raised from childhood.

The night his business rival sabotaged him and his rut came early, he finally got the chance to make Si Chi his, completely.

As for Si Chi still seeing him as a brother, he wasn't worried. They had plenty of time, and he could take things slowly.

*

A cynical, world-weary aloof beauty of an older brother x a handsome, useless younger brother who often plays little tricks

Si Yi x Si Chi

Honeysuckle x sweet osmanthus

To put it simply, their pheromones smell like honeysuckle and osmanthus.

Two Alphas, both versatile, faux siblings. The older brother is adopted, so they aren't on the same household register. They hurt each other, but each is the other's first and only love.

The older brother falls for the younger one first, but only after the younger brother comes of age. No inappropriate grooming.

Theme: Treat one another with kindness and get along well