A Cutie’s Daily Quest to Survive

A big brother named Han Yuan came to live with Ning Xiao's family. He was handsome and aloof, and rarely smiled. Within days, he had become the object of every girl's admiration at school.

Ning Xiao fumed. "What's the big deal? He's just a country bumpkin living under our roof!"

He went out of his way to torment Han Yuan: dumping his meals, ruining his backpack, and deliberately making him get out of the car halfway to school...

Then Ning Xiao suddenly awakened to the fact that he was living inside a book, and that Han Yuan was the male lead.

It turned out Han Yuan was the illegitimate son of an elite family. Due to family infighting, he had endured a rough childhood, but after countless trials, he would become the heir to one of the most powerful families.

And Ning Xiao was one of the evil supporting male characters who made Han Yuan's life miserable. Sooner or later, the male lead would kill him in a particularly horrible way.

Ning Xiao: !!!

Could he still make things right?

From then on, Ning Xiao followed Han Yuan around every day, fussing over him:

"Bro, do you like this dish? I'll ask Auntie to make more."

"Bro, look at the new clothes I bought you."

"Bro, this bag is for you. Happy birthday!!"

"Bro..."

The more he raised Han Yuan's affection for him, the safer his own future became.

Then, on the day Han Yuan left his home, Ning Xiao clung to his hand with great reluctance and sniffled, "Bro, I'll miss you when you're gone."

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Ever since childhood, Han Yuan had been called a burden by his mother and a bastard by his father. He was someone who should never have been born, someone fit only to struggle for survival in a dark, sunless mire.

Then, while staying at an uncle's house, he met a boy.

The boy sometimes threw childish tantrums, but he was the first person willing to get close to Han Yuan and care about him. He was also the first person in Han Yuan's life to celebrate his birthday.

The boy's adorable smile as he called him "Bro" was like a ray of bright sunshine breaking through his gloomy world and pulling him out of that mire.

Han Yuan secretly kept that light in his heart. On the inner side of his long, sinewy thigh, he had tattooed a name himself with an ink needle: Ning Xiao.

On the day he left the Ning family, the boy looked at him reluctantly and said, "Bro, I'll miss you when you're gone."

Those words made the longing he'd hidden in his heart grow wildly, making him want to chase after that ray of sunshine.

He threw caution to the wind and returned to find Ning Xiao.

But he saw Ning Xiao celebrating with his friends and a bottle of champagne. The boy's adorable face was lit up with unrestrained laughter. "That country bumpkin Han Yuan is finally gone! I'm finally free! Come on, let's drink to freedom!"

Han Yuan: …

Ning Xiao: …

The big shot I'd finally managed to win over has gone dark again ToT

Wait, why is he looking at me like that?

Why does he have my name tattooed on his leg?!

Theme: The sun always shines after the storm.