An Oxygen-Starved Attachment

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Super sweet happy ending | Both are each other's first and only | They only have eyes for each other | Younger, madly in love seme x older, guarded uke | Faux-sibling upbringing

Mad, sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside puppy seme x gentle, long-suffering uke

[Every frame-perfect moment with you is what keeps me going forever]

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Seventeen-year-old Zhou Lu found five-year-old Lu Feng in the muddy cold of winter and brought him home.

From then on, the two helpless souls beneath a dilapidated roof had a home, and became each other's only family.

Zhou Lu had dropped out of school early. He worked several jobs to the bone and scrimped and saved, just to give Lu Feng the very best, whether a good school or a bright future.

In the nights they spent relying on each other, love quietly twisted and grew wild.

Zhou Lu looked at his own weary face in the mirror, then at Lu Feng, radiant with promise,

and could only think that his secret feelings were filthy and shameful.

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Lu Feng had known for a long time that what he wanted from his brother was anything but familial affection.

When he heard that Zhou Lu ought to settle down and start a family, the possessiveness in his heart erupted.

What brother? He wanted Zhou Lu, and only Zhou Lu!

In his senior year of high school, he carefully made his moves, testing the waters with subtle advances and letting their closeness cross the line, all while acting like an adult.

But Zhou Lu was so slow on the uptake that it drove him to despair.

They attended universities in different places, and Lu Feng worked relentlessly to climb higher,

all so that one day he could give his brother a future they could share openly and properly.

Yet Zhou Lu was too stingy even to keep in touch.

Then news came that Zhou Lu was going on a blind date.

Lu Feng raced back overnight, and all his restraint and disguises fell away in an instant.

Subtle hints? Playing coy? Screw that.

He wanted Zhou Lu, and he wanted him now.

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On the other side of the wall, the matchmaker chattered away, while inside the room, everything was turned upside down.

Lu Feng pinned the flustered Zhou Lu hard against the edge of the bed, his burning breath brushing his ear.

"Zhou Lu, I love you."

It was no longer a younger brother's adoration, but a man's passionate declaration.

Zhou Lu tried to escape, but Lu Feng held him close, cupped his face, and coaxed him in a voice both forceful and humble: "After all these years... could you look at me too, brother?"

The instant their lips met, Zhou Lu was utterly undone.

But when he came to his senses, panic made him speak without thinking,

using the cruelest words he could to try to push away that consuming blaze.

Heartbroken, Zhou Lu shut himself inside a shell of despair.

When he had cried himself dry and opened the door with trembling hands, the emptiness he had expected was nowhere to be seen.

Lu Feng was still leaning against the door, smiling at him, tender determination and burning love in his eyes.

"I'm waiting for you, brother."

"Every day. Every single day."

[Reader's guide and important warnings]

1. They don't become a couple in high school. They start dating in college!

2. The seme openly loves the uke. Super sweet happy ending, younger seme. Neither is perfect.

3. At first, the seme is the uke's younger brother. After growing up, he becomes the uke's dark little puppy.

4. The uke is insecure and guarded, and pushes the seme away many times, but the seme keeps pursuing him and wins his love.

5. The seme and uke are completely devoted to each other. Neither of them is put through angst.

6. Please don't send writing advice.

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