After My Brooding Older Brother Sets His Sights on Me, I Survive by Playing Dumb

[Soft and a little slow on the uptake bottom x polite but sinister top]

Xiang Luan, an unknown nobody in the entertainment industry, was adopted by the Huo family. For more than ten years, he and his adoptive older brother, Huo Chong, had always kept a careful distance, close in name but not in reality.

Then one day, Xiang Luan dreamed that Huo Chong's first love, Xia Pei, had returned.

Xia Pei was ruthless and had admired Huo Chong since childhood. He had come back to China to eliminate the last man by Huo Chong's side: Xiang Luan.

Xiang Luan woke from the nightmare in the middle of the night. Maybe I should at least try to fight back?

To get away from Huo Chong, he used filming as an excuse to move out of the Huo family home. Before leaving, he even wrote an earnest, eight-hundred-word essay wishing his older brother a happy marriage.

“I'm not here to break you two up. I'm here to join you...”

“Xiao Luan is focused on his career and has no time for romance. I hope Second Brother and Sister-in-law won't hold anything against me...”

And so on.

But things kept getting stranger.

His usually self-controlled and reserved Second Brother, Huo Chong, began running into him again and again. Then one night, as rain poured down, he quietly moved into Xiang Luan's rented apartment.

“Second Brother, there's only one bed here. We can't both sleep in it.” Xiang Luan clutched a corner of the quilt, making his refusal obvious.

The man's eyes darkened slightly. He leaned in and lifted one corner of the covers. “It's fine. Your second brother will hold Xiao Luan while we sleep.”

The day Huo Chong realized that Xiang Luan didn't seem to dislike physical contact between men, cigarette butts littered the floor of his room. Yet the man concealed in the shadows had a clear, cold gaze.

He preferred the lamb walking straight into the tiger's den to waiting by a tree for a rabbit.

Basically, it's a story of an obsessive big shot taking advantage of an innocent, straight guy~~

[Content warning] Not a conventional entertainment-industry story

[Notes]

1. The bottom was only adopted by the top, and they are not on the same household registration. This story respects love, family affection, and friendship!

2. Huo Chong and Xia Pei have never dated. Xiang Luan is not a homewrecker, but an adorable little brother with rock-solid values!

New work pre-release: Why Are You Crawling Around in the Dark Again?

An insecure, sinister, crawling-around-in-the-dark top-tier star x an emotionally detached doctor with an avoidant attachment style

Xu Fangsong, deputy chief physician in the cardiology department of a top-grade Class A hospital, has been troubled lately.

The reason is that he and his ex from seven years ago, Yan Duxue, now a red-hot top-tier star in the entertainment industry, have become friends with benefits.

It all started three days ago. Yan Duxue was severely depressed, and his manager couldn't find a doctor, so he made an appointment with Xu Fangsong. “Dr. Xu, he's sick. He's seriously sick!”

Xu Fangsong glanced at Yan Duxue. “Symptoms?”

Yan Duxue: “Sex addiction.”

Xu Fangsong said expressionlessly, “...Go out, turn left, and head down three floors. Clinical psychology. This is cardiology.”

Yan Duxue stood up and left.

Xu Fangsong had always known Yan Duxue was sick, but after seven years apart, he'd thought Yan Duxue would find someone more suitable.

Until he found Yan Duxue's most recent visit in the hospital System: The patient has severe suicidal tendencies. Inpatient observation is recommended.

Xu Fangsong's fingers trembled, and he sent the message he'd only half finished typing: Xiao Xue, come over...

Yan Duxue replied instantly: I'll be at your place in five minutes.

The next day, Dr. Xu's back hurt as if it had been slashed with a knife. “...Yesterday I only wanted to ask how many times you'd been to the hospital and which doctors you saw.”

Yan Duxue's eyes reddened as he trembled slightly in Xu Fangsong's arms. “Brother Song, I don't want to hear that.”

Xu Fangsong hissed. “Why are you crying? Were you the one in pain yesterday?”

Xu Fangsong had a severe avoidant attachment style, until he met a clingy puppy. The little thing stuck to him like a dog plaster and wouldn't come off, shedding a few precious tears every now and then.

But with Yan Duxue's face, anyone would soften.

Yan Duxue: “There's no such thing as the newcomer overtaking the old flame. I got there by crying and fighting for it like hell.”

Theme: Strive hard