Ten Years After Deceiving My Childhood Friend

After successfully deceiving his childhood friend for ten years, Yu Miao was hit with a question that could cost him his life.

He discovered that his childhood friend and older brother, K City’s richest man, the head of the Zhao family, and a heaven-blessed prodigy born with an emperor’s fate, Zhao Jingxing

had attained enlightenment.

What exactly had he figured out?

Basically, all the lies Yu Miao had managed to pull off with secret mystical arts had once gone right over Zhao Jingxing’s head because he was an ordinary person. Now, he could see through every last one.

Yu Miao, who had schemed to deceive him for ten years and spent just as long pretending to be a gloomy, miserable little melon from the internet: “...”

High-tech, all-angle surveillance cameras; sixteen hours of sincere companionship; eight hours of face-to-face video heart-to-hearts; and a handsome, six-foot-two guy ready to carry him bridal-style every time he got out of bed or left the house...

Ha-ha. He was done for.

*

As everyone knows, Zhao Jingxing is four years older than Yu Miao and has always looked after him.

When they were young, the two of them were left to fend for themselves. Yu Miao was born with yin-yang eyes, which constantly attracted evil spirits. He was hated by people and dogs alike.

Zhao Jingxing led him from one hiding place to the next. Even when their lives were hanging by a thread, he did everything he could to raise him. At their hardest, he had to beg from door to door to get Yu Miao talisman paper that could protect his life.

Even so, Zhao Jingxing never made Yu Miao kneel to anyone or suffer even the slightest hardship.

*

In the bitter cold of winter, sickly Yu Miao asked Zhao Jingxing again and again, “Brother, is there anything you absolutely want to accomplish?”

Yu Miao was only ten years old then, but he had already inherited the mystical arts. Through his yin-yang eyes, he could see the past and future, and even change other people’s fates.

He wanted to fulfill Zhao Jingxing’s wish as soon as possible.

But Zhao Jingxing had once been a wolf child. He had never been much of a talker, and every day he only thought about getting one more bite of food into Yu Miao’s mouth, working hard to earn money to take him to a doctor. How could he have time to think about wishes?

It wasn’t until New Year’s Eve, as they stayed up together to welcome the new year, that Zhao Jingxing finally spoke in a low voice while holding Yu Miao and soothing him to sleep:

“I hope Miao Miao gets better.”

“I hope we grow up safe and sound together.”

“I hope we can stay up together every New Year’s Eve.”

A sincere and simple wish.

Yu Miao heard him.

He wanted to promise.

But what could he do to make such a simple wish come true?

The living keep moving forward through time, while the dead remain forever still.

This was, after all, the last time Yu Miao would stay up with Zhao Jingxing before his death.

His allotted years were over. He wouldn’t live to hear the New Year’s bells.

Reading guide:

A dark, twisted romance fairy tale. A story about childhood friends growing up together. Happy ending. The latter half of the blurb is about their childhood.

Couple:

Two heaven-blessed prodigies

Zhao Jingxing: Always feels he owes him; a young man with wholehearted sincerity; as an adult, a possessive alpha wolf-dog

Yu Miao: One who has calculated the secrets of fate; a beautiful lamp that has already gone out but does his best to pretend he’s still glowing

Theme: Human will can triumph over fate.