My Dead Junior Brother Won't Stop Clinging to Me

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Ji Nian was once the sect's most revered senior disciple, a promising genius with a bright future. Then one day, he woke up to find himself hundreds of years in the future.

Not only had he lost all his cultivation, but everyone in the sect despised him. After asking around, he learned that his once-closest junior brother had died, and that Ji Nian himself had killed him.

What frightened Ji Nian even more was discovering that he was possessed by a vengeful evil ghost.

So his junior brother had come back to "claim his life."

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Although Ji Nian couldn't see his junior brother, he always felt that the boy hadn't grown up at all in the hundreds of years that had passed.

Every day, little ghost legs (let's call them that, since he couldn't see exactly what they were) wrapped around him and followed him everywhere.

They also had to sleep, eat, and bathe together every day...

His junior brother's speech was halting, and his voice was hoarse and chilling, but Ji Nian wasn't frightened at all.

It was just like hundreds of years ago, with a little tagalong always at his heels. The only difference was that no matter how much Ji Nian pleaded, his junior brother refused to show himself.

Maybe the child was shy.

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Everyone in the sect dumped the hardest, most exhausting tasks on Ji Nian. It was his punishment for betraying his companions.

But lately, people kept finding that he could finish the work while lying down.

Passerby A: "Yesterday I made him wash every piece of clothing in the whole sect. Then I found him asleep on the hillside, while the clothes jumped into the stream one by one, washed themselves, and flew up onto the clothesline!"

Passerby B: "Exactly! I told him to plant ten thousand mu of spirit herbs, and he spent the whole day sitting under a tree reading comics. His hoe worked the fields by itself! It planted everything in no time!"

Passerby C: "The creepiest part is that he didn't use any spiritual power... And every time he finished a task, he praised the air, saying, 'Good boy!'"

After gossiping, everyone shivered in unison. This senior brother was so creepy. Had he turned demonic?

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Later, Ji Nian's cultivation improved by leaps and bounds, and he once again became the sect's strongest fighter, at a pace no ordinary person could match.

On one mission, the team he led was trapped and attacked by a ten-thousand-year-old evil spirit. Ji Nian fought desperately alone to hold it back, giving the others a precious chance to escape.

Only then did everyone realize how ridiculous their bullying of Ji Nian had been all these years. When danger came, he was the only one willing to stand up and protect them all.

Just as Ji Nian was about to be overwhelmed, a tall, graceful figure appeared. With a casual wave, countless evil spirits were torn to pieces amid their screams.

Ji Nian stared at the hellish scene before him, then at the gloomy man by his side who had finally shown himself, and fell into deep thought.

Where had his sweet, obedient, adorable, soft-hearted junior brother gone?

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Senior brother, senior brother,

You should have been a spotless bodhi tree, a flawless mirror held high above the world.

Our master cherished and protected you; your junior brothers respected and loved you.

How could I bear to see you struggle and stumble in the mire?

But senior brother,

I was born a monster sunk in the mud, with rotting roots and a withered heart.

I wanted to topple your pedestal and tear away your purity.

How could I stay by your side without defiling you?

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* Bold highlight: Ghost Gong.

* A doting, possessive, gloomy junior brother Gong x a beautiful, powerful senior brother Shou, aloof as a mountain peak.

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When Le Tang transmigrates, the original owner has already offended every Gong and become the shared little sidekick of all the rich young masters, left to be pushed around as they please.

Le Tang doesn't know how to fight back. His eyes are red, his black hair falls soft and smooth, and his stubborn tears are just about to fall.

The rich young masters, about to pick on him, suddenly fall silent.

1.

The campus heartthrob tosses a pile of papers onto Le Tang's desk and tells him to finish them before school lets out.

Le Tang stammers: It's too cold. My hands are frozen. I can't write...

Classmates: Huh? Is the little sidekick trying to get himself killed?

But the campus heartthrob simply pulls him onto his lap and holds his hands. "Not cold anymore?"

Le Tang suddenly starts trembling. "D-Don't touch there..."

Classmates: ?

2.

Le Tang accidentally splashes water on the school bully's shirt, worth tens of thousands. As he hurriedly wipes it off, the bully grabs his arm.

The bully grits his teeth. "Can you stop touching me all over?"

His classmates gloat. "Le Tang's about to get beaten up!"

The bully: "We're still at school. Come to my place after class, and I'll let you touch me as much as you want!"

Le Tang's face turns bright red.

Classmates: ???

3.

During lunch break, Le Tang can't get the limited-edition cake the richest man's son asked for, so he nervously hands over a piece of burnt cake he baked himself, black as charcoal.

The richest man's son: "Are you kidding me?"

His classmates: He's dead.

The richest man's son: "Feed it to me yourself."

Le Tang carefully picks up a piece and brings it to his lips, but the boy takes his finger into his mouth instead.

The richest man's son, savoring it: "Sweet."

His classmates: ...Wait a second???

Later, the rich young masters realize that this seemingly pliable little rice dumpling is actually a flirt who falls in love with one person after another, yet doesn't take a single one of them seriously.

They should have taught Le Tang a harsh lesson he'd never forget, to make him realize he'd messed with the wrong people.

But in the end, they discover that all they can do is beg Le Tang to stay.

Theme: Even when time passes and everything changes, never forget the justice in your heart.