The World-Weary Sickly One Transmigrates Into the Foil

Slowly revising the story (see announcement)

- Progress: 30%

- CP: a transmigrated-into-a-book fake young master × his former older brother, who is not related to him by blood

Lu Huiyu was frail and sickly from childhood, and deaf as well. Ever since his identity as a fake young master of a wealthy family was exposed when he was eleven, he had been dragged into a tearjerker of a feud with the real young master, full of hair-pulling and backstabbing. After years of it, he was bored and sick of everything.

Then he transmigrated into a book.

The new plot felt very “familiar” to Lu Huiyu. Its protagonist was a real young master who had been switched at birth, while he was the villain used as a foil: the fake young master everyone hated.

Lu Huiyu's face was expressionless. What a pain. He'd stick to what he knew: being a pain.

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In the book, the real young master was well-behaved and sensible, and became the darling of the family the moment he came home. The fake young master, meanwhile, was malicious and jealous. He scrambled for attention, only to be rejected by everyone, and even his urn leaked after he died.

Lu Huiyu: Great! As long as I pick out a little box I like, I can avoid that kind of tragedy~

Lu Huiyu didn't care about anyone and couldn't be bothered to play along.

So everyone saw that when the fake young master provoked him, Lu Huiyu said nothing. He just kept suffering from tinnitus, coughing, headaches, nausea, fever, and fainting, his face pale as he pointed to his cochlear implant, looking innocent, confused, and a little bored.

Lu Huiyu: Don't make a scene. I can't hear you. Don't put on an act, I'm nearsighted. Don't get mad, go get a sedative :)

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But the real young master and his followers decided Lu Huiyu was a complete good-for-nothing. They not only plotted to humiliate him in public, they also resorted to violence.

Lu Huiyu endured the shrill noise caused by his malfunctioning implant. As the other person lunged at him, he nimbly dodged and discreetly tripped them. They plunged headfirst into the champagne tower. Glass shattered, and the crowd fell silent.

Amid the scattered shards of light, Lu Huiyu's smile looked especially frail.

I just don't want to live. It's not like I'm already dead.

After years in the business, he had plenty of strength and tricks up his sleeve.

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His family and friends rushed over in alarm. Lu Huiyu didn't want to hear them lecture him, so he lowered his head perfunctorily and was about to leave in “dejection.” But his mother suddenly threw her arms around him, his father stepped in front of him, his childhood friend grabbed the culprit and started beating him up, and his fiance turned and angrily confronted the real young master...

Huh? Is this novel's drama really that low-level? You people actually eat this up?

...Am I a max-level player who just dropped into the beginner village?

Lu Huiyu turned back with a bored pout and accidentally bumped into a pair of calm, shadowed eyes. The real young master immediately ran to Lu Yingshen, looking aggrieved. Having read the novel, Lu Huiyu knew this was the male lead! He'd already been shocked to learn that the novel's main CP was incestuous. The real young master had a crush on the actual head of the Lu family, his own older brother!

Good heavens, that was enough to give him a heart attack!!!

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Still dazed as if he'd been struck by lightning, Lu Huiyu noticed that the man who'd been his nominal older brother for over a decade had come to stand in front of him. The other man held one hand near his ear and lifted his chin with the other, forcing him to look at him. His eyes darkened as he silently mouthed:

Does your ear hurt?

Lu Huiyu: Wait...

???? Is... is this right??

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CP: a frail, prickly bottom with a lifeless, half-dead aura × a composed older top who knows how to dote on someone but is not to be messed with

Important: They are not related by blood, and they are no longer registered in the same household when they get together.

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※ My take on an alternate society and wealthy families, all in service of the plot. Please don't overanalyze it

※ The cover has little to do with the characters or plot. I used it because it's beautiful and fits my impression in one respect~ It's a template, not a custom commission

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