Do You Really Have to Love My Dad?

[The blurb has been written] Jian Chenzhou (Top 1, 39) → Yaoyao (Bottom) ← Jian Zhao (Top 2, 19), Top 1 and Top 2 are adoptive family. Both are completely devoted in body and mind, and there are no wives being deceived into sham marriages, so read with peace of mind. Includes a fake-death trope where the bottom dies and the top goes mad. * Blurb: On the anniversary of Jian Zhao's mother's death, his demon-hunter father brought home a fox spirit. A male fox spirit, no less. Jian Zhao thought the fox spirit must be some formidable character, and that his father would lock him up, interrogate him day and night, and kill him once he had gotten some useful information. But on the first day, the fox spirit slapped his father. His usually cold and taciturn father merely smiled faintly, fondly touching the mark on his face. On the second day, the fox spirit bit his father viciously, his sharp teeth piercing flesh and bone. His father only said that it was a minor wound and nothing to worry about. On the third day, Jian Zhao peeked through a crack in the window and saw his father, who had spent half his life treating people with cool indifference, kneeling before the fox spirit. His eyes were red, and his large, veiny hand clutched the fox spirit's ankle as he begged in a trembling voice, "Yaoyao, it's been twenty years. I've searched for you countless times... Don't leave your brother again. Please. Your brother can't wait another twenty years..." * Jian Zhao seemed to have uncovered the secret past between the fox spirit and his father. That foolish fox spirit actually liked his father, a demon hunter. Perfect. Jian Zhao hated his father's coldness toward him, and he hated all demons, too. Finally, one day, he got the chance to take revenge on them. Taking advantage of how much he looked like his father when he was young, Jian Zhao held the fox spirit, who had lost his memory in an accident, in his arms and coaxed him gently: "Yaoyao, I'm your brother. Your brother is right here." According to plan, once the foolish fox spirit trusted him completely, he would dump him in the depths of the mountains to be eaten by tigers, then enjoy the sight of his father breaking down and going mad. But then the plan went awry. He fell in love for real. "Father and I look so much alike. Why do you want him and not me?" Jian Zhao's twisted jealousy spiraled out of control. His eyes reddened and his nose stung. "Father's old now. He's useless. From now on, you can only have me!" * Jian Chenzhou had depended on this little fox spirit for a long time, and named him Yaoyao. When they were young, the little fox spirit blushed and told him, "I like you, Brother!" Jian Chenzhou merely smiled and patted his head, not taking him seriously. Now, at thirty-nine, twenty years after losing Yaoyao, Jian Chenzhou heard his weary, relieved confession once again: "Brother, I still like you." Though moved, Jian Chenzhou still cruelly rejected Yaoyao. Until one day, he came home early from a business trip and saw his son Jian Zhao, playing the part of his younger self, tangled up with Yaoyao in bed, lost in their passion and oblivious to the world. The last of the reason in Jian Chenzhou's mind burned away. Older, brooding, yandere top × gorgeous, devoted fox-spirit bottom × younger, sharp-tongued, proud top Content warnings: 1. Jian Chenzhou (Top 1, 39) → Yaoyao (Bottom) ← Jian Zhao (Top 2, 19). Top 1 and Top 2 compete for the bottom. There is a reason they look alike, so read with peace of mind. 2. This is not for readers with extreme character preferences. The author does not favor tops or bottoms. The characters' development serves the story, which is told from two perspectives. 3. This story is a veritable soap opera. Feel free to criticize any character, but please don't personally attack the author, sob sob QAQ 4. Please show your support by bookmarking and commenting! Find me on Weibo at @Jinjiang Yinlanfeng. Come hang out! (waves handkerchief) 5. This is not an MPreg story. The two tops compete and get jealous. The two tops and the bottom are not related by blood or ethically related. The premise has passed editorial review and been registered, with chat records to prove it. It won't involve any prohibited Jinjiang themes. (A wholesome, upstanding JPG) 6. There will be flashbacks to Top 1 and the bottom's past. Coming soon: another melodramatic story, "After I Died, He Regretted It Until He Went Mad" (A melodramatic revenge-and-regret story, with both top and bottom reborn) Mi Lian ascended the throne at fifteen, determined to become a wise ruler. Who could have guessed that on his coming-of-age ceremony, he'd be strung up on a gallows like a scarecrow? The one who usurped the throne was his long-lost elder brother. The leader of the rebels was his cousin, a great general. And the one who dragged him to the gallows was Lu Jiuxian, the guard who had been by his side for years. He was sharp-tongued and talked too much, but would sneak out of the palace to buy Mi Lian crispy pork knuckles. Lu Jiuxian was carefree and unrestrained, with a pair of narrow, flirtatious eyes. He often killed people while chatting and laughing, earning him the name Jade-Faced Yama. Yet Lu Jiuxian willingly became Mi Lian's scabbard. He raised Mi Lian within the cold palace walls, staining himself with blood without so much as changing expression. When thunder and lightning raged, he would pat Mi Lian's back, softly hum a soothing song, and tenderly watch the young King of Chu fall fast asleep. His feelings grew wildly, and Mi Lian secretly loved him for years. But the young emperor became the last remnant of the former dynasty overnight. Before his execution, Mi Lian, disheveled and filthy, looked up as two trails of bloody tears ran down his face. He crawled toward Lu Jiuxian on his hands and feet. He didn't expect the person he secretly loved to risk his own life to save him. He only begged Lu Jiuxian to kill him first, sparing him the suffocation of hanging. But Lu Jiuxian's eyes seemed frozen over. He looked at Mi Lian as if he were nothing but a corpse. "Killing you would dirty my sword." Mi Lian couldn't believe what he'd heard. Before the love he'd harbored for Lu Jiuxian could fade away, the rope snapped his neck. The last thing he saw before he died was Lu Jiuxian gazing tenderly at the brother who had usurped his throne. He brushed the stray hair from his brother's ear himself, their intimacy like that of lovers. * Heaven had mercy, and Mi Lian was reborn. He returned to the eve of their betrayal. At that point, his elder brother was merely a quiet official who hid his true intentions, and his cousin was still the seemingly loyal great general. As for Lu Jiuxian, who had personally dragged him to the gallows in his previous life, he was still leaning against the doorframe, sword in hand, grinning as he asked, "Is Your Majesty tired from reading? Want me to sneak out and get you some pork knuckles?" Mi Lian's stomach twisted with disgust. Four words circled through his mind: "I'll kill them!" * His revenge plan was flawless. Lu Jiuxian would be the first one he killed. But then Mi Lian realized that Lu Jiuxian seemed to have been reborn, too. A growing young emperor, bottom (Mi Lian) VS a guard who is a black-hearted top turned even darker (Lu Jiuxian) Theme: Protecting animals is everyone's responsibility.