Just Talking, Not Dating

Blurb:

Xu Yu is an utterly ordinary person. He has an average face, average grades, and isn't good with sweet words, so people don't find him especially likable.

Before he turned sixteen, he was a burden his parents had abandoned in the countryside. After he turned sixteen, his father remarried and brought him to live with him, where he gained an outstanding and exceptional stepbrother, Zhan Zonghui.

At their first meeting, he greeted his older brother timidly and honestly. His cold, haughty stepbrother furrowed his brow slightly and said with unconcealed disgust, “Stay away from me.”

His stepbrother looked down on Xu Yu's father, and he looked down on Xu Yu, his unwanted little brother, too.

Even his throngs of admirers joined in, mercilessly mocking and ostracizing Xu Yu.

When Xu Yu was eighteen, his stepbrother was recognized by his birth family and became the true young master of a wealthy family, switched at birth years ago.

But before he left, Zhan Zonghui clung tightly to Xu Yu's hand, eyes red, wanting to take him along.

Xu Yu didn't go.

So he got a new stepbrother.

When Wen Zhaocheng was eighteen, he was told that he wasn't a young master of the Wen family. The real young master had grown up with his single mother and was resilient and exceptionally talented.

He didn't have much of a reaction to falling from his life of luxury, and, to everyone's surprise, he got along quite well with the real young master.

But his family couldn't bear to let him go. They wouldn't send him away, yet worried he would be lonely, so they brought his “little brother” over from a small town to keep him company.

And so Wen Zhaocheng met Xu Yu. The first thing he saw was a pale-faced young man lowering his eyes and calling him, “Big brother.”

He pinched the boy's cheek, his gaze full of disdain. “Don't look at me with those puppy-dog eyes of yours. And who said I'm your brother?”

Later, when Wen Zhaocheng brought Xu Yu to meet his friends, he said in a calm yet utterly domineering tone, “My little brother.”

His friends cheered, but one person's expression changed abruptly.

Wen Zhaocheng raised an eyebrow and slung an arm over Zhan Zongheng's shoulder. “Meet my mom's new partner's son. You haven't met him before, have you?”

Under the other man's burning gaze, Xu Yu lowered his eyes and was the first to reach out his hand. “Nice to meet you.”

P.S.

1. No personal attacks, please.

2. The love interest will have to win him back after hurting him.

3. Both are virgins, and they are not related by blood.

4. I'm not sure if there are any other potential triggers, so please read carefully, dear readers. (?˙▽˙?)

Theme: Be brave and do what you want to do.