The Cannon Fodder Bottom Everyone Fights Over in a Dog-Blood Novel

[A brash, nasty young master gong x a seductive black-lotus shou]

★ My next danmei novel will be Brother, I've Wanted to Rise to the Top for So Long. The blurb is at the very bottom. Visit my author page to see it.

When Xie Yingzhu was nine, his family went bankrupt. His father sold him to pay off debts, just so his younger brother could have a meal.

But Xie Yingzhu survived and became the star performer at the biggest theater in Hong Kong, all because one night he had a dream.

In the dream, he was the tragic, beloved white moonlight in a melodramatic angst novel. His family betrayed him, and his younger brother stole his good fortune.

He gave the male lead his whole heart, only to be treated like a plaything and tortured until he was covered in wounds. In the end, he was forced to donate his heart to save his younger brother.

And the “dear younger brother” who had originally been nothing but a sacrificial extra married the male lead on the very day he died, living a life of glamour and glory.

He had already died once. Now he was reborn before any of it had happened.

Xie Yingzhu smiled.

If everyone wanted him dead, then he would live better than every one of them.

Everyone in Hong Kong knew that the eldest young master of the Ying family, Ying Chengyan, was mercurial and heartless. He had gone through several lovers, and none could put up with his temper.

When Xie Yingzhu took the initiative to approach him, the young masters all teased him about his good fortune: “That delicate opera singer won't last two days before he runs off.”

But Xie Yingzhu was different from everyone else.

Whenever Ying Chengyan came home dead drunk, someone was there to wipe him down and change his clothes.

Whenever Ying Chengyan flew into a rage and smashed things, Xie Yingzhu quietly cleaned up the shards. Even when they cut his fingers, he never complained.

No matter how Ying Chengyan teased and humiliated him, even when he was so wronged that he cried, he still smiled gently and silently endured it all.

Xie Yingzhu gave him a tenderness he had never known in a wealthy family where relatives fought each other to the death. He began to fall in love with the feeling of having a “home.”

Ying Chengyan learned to rein in his temper and how to treat Xie Yingzhu well.

Just as he was ready to build a real home with Xie Yingzhu, Xie Yingzhu ran away.

The day Xie Yingzhu ran off with half the Ying family's fortune, all of Hong Kong was in an uproar.

The once-arrogant eldest young master of the Ying family searched frantically for him all over the world, begging Xie Yingzhu not to leave him alone. But all he received was a letter in his inbox:

“Thanks for funding my new life, Young Master Ying. Don't be a scumbag gong in your next book.”

[Bonus scene]

His younger brother, destitute and on the verge of dying from heart failure, received a video in the ICU.

In the video, Young Master Ying knelt before Xie Yingzhu, his bare foot on Ying's shoulder, and rasped:

“Yingzhu... please... give me one more chance...”

The image cut out, replaced by Xie Yingzhu's mocking voice:

“Are you enjoying the life I built for you?”

“Watching your beloved white moonlight kneel and beg me to love him must have been quite a sight, right?”

★ Brother, I've Wanted to Rise to the Top for So Long

Jiang Wen felt he had been born to be hated.

When he was brought to the Jiang family, he thought he'd finally found a family. Instead, he learned that he was just the fake young master everyone despised.

He was isolated and falsely accused of plagiarism. The slightest mistake earned him beatings, scolding, and no food. The only one who looked after him was his unrelated older brother, Jiang Chi.

Using brotherhood as an excuse, Jiang Wen secretly loved Jiang Chi for years.

On his birthday one year, he finally confessed his feelings.

Jiang Chi slipped a soda can tab onto his ring finger and kissed the corner of his lips.

“Wen, I love you too.”

“Can you do something for your brother? You're the only one I trust.”

Jiang Chi said the Jiang family could only have one heir: the biological young master who had been found had to be ruined.

He asked Jiang Wen to seduce the true young master. Once it was done, he would propose and make Jiang Wen a real member of the Jiang family.

Jiang Wen was silent for a long time, then agreed.

But a sudden car accident changed everything. Jiang Chi stepped on him to climb out of the car. Their adoptive parents held Jiang Chi, their faces streaked with tears, without even looking at Jiang Wen.

Before the flames consumed him, Jiang Wen realized he was the universally hated character in a melodramatic novel. No one would ever truly love him.

The news that Jiang Wen might have died was widely reported, and suddenly the world changed.

Those who had bullied him repented. Those who had slandered him apologized. The Jiang family offered a huge reward to find him, just to see him again.

Not long afterward, a figure-skating blogger became an overnight sensation.

In the videos, Jiang Wen was blindfolded with silk, moving gracefully and lightly like an ice sprite. Even the national team extended an invitation to him.

In the pouring rain, Jiang Chi knelt outside Jiang Wen's building and begged him to come back.

After two hours on his knees, a basin of hot water came flying down from above, scalding him until he rolled all over the ground. When he looked up, his rage exploded.

It was the true young master of the Jiang family he'd hated with all his heart, the biological younger brother who had been found: Lu Wei!

Lu Wei's voice was lazy. “Thanks for introducing me to my sister-in-law, Brother. Just as you wanted, we're together now.”

A faint red kiss mark on his neck left Jiang Chi staring in fury.

Lu Wei, the true young master of the Jiang family, is a newly crowned champion driver at the World Championships.

When the Jiang family went bankrupt, he played the song “Good Days” in his livestream all day and gave away three luxury cars to celebrate with everyone.

Later, after winning another championship, the race-car legend, who never let anyone get close, knelt before a beauty and solemnly slipped the championship ring onto his ring finger.

The beauty wore Luo Yu's team uniform. He removed the silk blindfold over his eyes, grabbed Luo Yu by the collar, and kissed him.

#Rumor: The racing legend broke with the Jiang family over a man#

#Not a rumor#

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