★ Devoted and steadfast x gentle and resilient
☆ Republican-era romance & pseudo-incest & childhood sweethearts
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Shu Yuyao was the son of the Lou family's chauffeur.
A car accident in his childhood took both his father and his sight. The young master of the Lou family died in the same accident.
To soothe Mrs. Lou's grief over losing her son, they brought him home from an orphanage and treated him as a substitute for the young master.
Master Lou took his hand and said, “Yaoyao, call him big brother.”
“...Big brother.”
His timid attempt to reach out was met with a mocking laugh from the eldest son, Lou Zhongqing. “They even bring stray dogs nobody wants into this house.”
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Years later, the Lou family was caught in a business crisis. He was accused of being solely responsible for an accident and dragged into court amid a chorus of curses.
Only then did he understand that he had long since become a discarded pawn.
The Lou family stood behind him, filled with righteous indignation, while the charges being read aloud were not his own.
His heart turned to ash. All he could do was repeat, “I plead guilty.”
He had to atone for his father's sins. The price was to be the Lou family's dog for the rest of his life.
The first half of Shu Yuyao's life was marked by hardship and upheaval, filled with deceit and malice.
After his release from prison, he wandered the streets with nothing to his name. At the loneliest, most helpless moment of his life, someone asked him, “Would you like to come home with me?”
Shu Yuyao reached out to him, like a stray dog wagging its tail and begging for affection.
No one knew why the ruthless autocrat who had built a maritime business empire and sent even his own relatives to prison had fallen for a blind man.
All they knew was that this man was the apple of his eye, untouchable.
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Shu Yuyao and his husband were deeply in love.
During the day, he tended the garden at home, waiting for his beloved to return.
At night, his husband would carry him from the rattan chair where he'd fallen asleep to their bedroom, and they would embrace and sleep like any ordinary married couple.
Until one day, Shu Yuyao waited in the garden all night and never felt that man's arms around him.
The next day, as a family member of a victim of a shootout, he went to identify his husband's body.
Bodies riddled with bullets lay in a row along the dock. The police handed Shu Yuyao an identity card.
His fingers trembled as he touched it. Suddenly, he froze. Tears rolled down his cheeks, and he sobbed as he read the name aloud.
“Lou Zhongqing.”
The man he had loved for so many years was his brother.
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Seven years after Lou Zhongqing's death, someone found the body of a blind man at the dock.
People would sometimes talk about him, saying that he was not only blind, but dim-witted too. He spent every day by the sea, waiting for someone no one knew.
His sightless eyes always faced the direction of the sea breeze. He neither wept nor spoke, like a small, low-lying reef.
Reborn, Shu Yuyao returned to his childhood. At seven years old, he sat in the back seat of his father's car, ready to pick up the eldest young master from school.
Perhaps there was still time to change everything.
“Lou Zhongqing, love me for another lifetime.”
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☆ The blurb was screenshotted on 2025.05.15
Theme: The world is full of ordinary people, but you are the one I cherish most.
