[Blurb]
Li Zhen spent eighteen years as the spoiled, willful young master of the Li family, until, on the eve of his coming-of-age ceremony, the family brought home a refined young man from elsewhere.
His mother, who had always doted on him without limit, took the young man's hand and said that he was the Li family's real second son.
It turned out Li Zhen was an impostor.
With the real young master back, Li Zhen went from being the center of attention to hitting rock bottom.
The Li family was willing to keep him, on the condition that he behave himself and do his part as the third young master.
With no one else to turn to, Li Zhen had nowhere to go.
The real young master looked down on him, and even his childhood friend treated him coldly. As everyone turned against him, only Zhou Yueze treated him as he always had.
Zhou Yueze grew up abroad and returned to China at fifteen. The two families were close, so the boys became friends. Li Zhen knew Zhou Yueze was heaven's favored child, but he'd never met a heaven's favored child who was such an idiot.
When Li Zhen swallowed his pride and went to a reunion with old friends, only to be thrown out, Zhou Yueze drove over to pick him up.
When someone splashed red wine on him in front of everyone at a banquet, Zhou Yueze gently draped his coat over Li Zhen's shoulders and took him away.
When Li Zhen tried to curry favor with the real young master and stumbled down the stairs after a servant bumped into him, Zhou Yueze was the first to arrive and take him to the hospital.
That fall left Li Zhen with serious injuries, but it also knocked some sense into him.
Having an idiot by his side who was willing to stick with him through thick and thin wasn't so bad.
He ought to have been satisfied, but he was greedy enough to want Zhou Yueze to be kind to him alone.
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Li Zhen finally stopped making trouble and disappeared from everyone's sight. Yet the people who had once hurt him, intentionally or otherwise, began to feel uneasy.
The real young master, gentle on the surface and devious underneath, took the initiative to ask if Li Zhen had enough spending money.
His proud childhood friend sent him a message, ears red, inviting him to a birthday party.
The arrogant roommate who had mocked him from the moment they met silently sent him a whole roomful of apology gifts.
But Li Zhen changed his phone number and packed up to move out of the Li home as quickly as he could.
He didn't want any of them. Zhou Yueze alone was enough for him.
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Zhou Yueze was a good person with a lot of money and not much sense, the only rabbit in a wolf's den. And yet Li Zhen liked him.
Li Zhen admitted he was a big bad wolf who played the fool and acted pitiful. As everyone knows, wolves eat rabbits.
On that snowy night, a little tipsy, he took advantage of the moment and kissed the rabbit by force.
P.S. The shou is a scheming little fox who lacks a sense of security. Everything he does is just to make life a little easier for himself. He was spoiled rotten as a child.
Precious, self-serving, troublesome shou × kind, proper gong with a lot of money and not much sense
Blurb screenshot taken on 2023/12/3
Theme: Like a plant, grow toward the sun
