Picked Up by My Archrival as a Child

Recommending my upcoming novel, My Brother Is the Wife Mom Gave Me, featuring a gloomy, ghostlike top x a favored son of heaven bottom. Blurb below.

1.

Ning Lan is known throughout the village as a "jinx." He supposedly caused his parents' deaths, everyone despises him, and even the dogs take a swipe at him.

He lives in a drafty woodshed, eats spoiled leftovers, and takes the worst beatings, yet he doesn't even dare cry out loud.

Until one day, a reality show about swapping lives picks him to become the "exchange younger brother" of rich heir Zhuang Feiyan.

The production crew hopes to film a sensational story about a rebellious rich kid bullying a helpless country boy, but they never expect this:

Zhuang Feiyan kicks open the woodshed door and sneers as he looks at Ning Lan's battered body.

"From today on, he's mine. Who dares lay a hand on him?"

2.

Zhuang Feiyan is reborn.

In his previous life, the production crew deliberately manipulated the story, turning him into a spoiled villain cursed by the entire internet. And Ning Lan...

His future rival, the man who swindled him out of thirty million and fought him to the death, is right there on the road into the village, trembling in a corner like an abandoned puppy.

"Big brother..." the poor little thing says, eyes red, his voice faint as a mosquito's buzz.

Zhuang Feiyan: "..."

Good grief.

No one told him his childhood enemy was this pitiful as a kid.

3.

The whole internet is abuzz with news that the heir to the Zhuang family takes the little hanger-on he picked up in the countryside everywhere he goes.

Financial reporters capture him taking a call during a board meeting.

Zhuang Feiyan's voice is gentle and low. "Have you finished your homework?"

At a high-society banquet:

The young master Zhuang coldly kicks someone who tried to flirt into the swimming pool. "The kid at home is shy around strangers."

The pitiful boy Zhuang Feiyan raised and spoiled grows up into an exquisitely beautiful, refined young man, dazzling everyone when he appears at a charity gala.

When reporters ask about their relationship, Ning Lan suddenly smiles. "Us? It's been a long time since we last saw each other."

Zhuang Feiyan freezes.

With his memories restored, Ning Lan leans close to his ear and asks, "Right, Young Master Zhuang?"

"Or should I say..." His eyes gleam mischievously as he speaks softly. "Big... bro...ther?"

#Shocking! My Rival Is Flirting with Me After Being Reborn#

#An Enemy Is an Enemy, So How Did He Become My Guardian?#

#Can My Rival Turn into a Baby, Then My Rival Again, and Then Turn Back?#

A short-tempered, fiercely protective alpha-male top x a sweet and fragile, insecure bottom at first, then a refined, cool, and aloof heartthrob who loves to flirt

One-to-one romance, devoted couple, happy ending. Rich young master x pitiful little thing.

1. The early story focuses on family affection, raising a child comes before everything else. The romance only begins once the bottom is an adult.

2. The top is completely uncouth. He gets into heated shouting matches with the village aunties and shoves bullies into manure pits. A swaggering brute, a tough guy. The pampered rich heir turns into a raging bull demon. A young master may be born pampered, but he'll be fierce when he's playing dad. The main story is chaotic and uproarious, a full-on rural romp.

3. The bottom has a beautiful-but-tragic past, but it belongs to his previous life.

4. The couple is endgame. No breakups or role reversals. Other people will have one-sided crushes on the bottom.

5. [They share a household registration when he's adopted, but he'll move to a different one later. By the time their feelings develop, they're no longer on the same household registration.]

[Little scene]

Zhuang Feiyan holds Ning Lan's face and inspects his injuries. "Who did this? Point them out."

Ning Lan shakes his head, trembling. "N-no one..."

Zhuang Feiyan: "Good. Then I'll deal with all of them ^^"

[Additional content warning]

The village story includes a supporting girl character who bullied the bottom in the past. She is later redeemed, but doesn't join the main cast, and doesn't appear again later.

Her redemption is connected to additional background for the bottom's characterization. More details are in the author's note for Chapter 21.

Upcoming novel: My Brother Is the Wife Mom Gave Me

1.

Years later, Fu Qiao learns that his adoptive mother's son has been found.

Eighteen years ago, both his parents died, and his adoptive mother found him after losing her own biological child. She adopted him, then later married into a powerful family, making him the eldest young master of the Fu family.

Now the DNA test has confirmed the result. Unfortunately, his adoptive mother has already passed away, so Fu Qiao has to meet the other man himself.

When Gu Suizhi walks in, he is pale and gloomy, silently staring at Fu Qiao.

Fu Qiao holds out his hand. "Hello, it's nice to meet you. I'm your... older brother."

2.

Gu Suizhi doesn't fit in with this family.

People say the family that adopted him after he was kidnapped treated him terribly. He must have suffered a lot, leaving him withdrawn and difficult to get along with.

Fu Qiao asks his younger sister to have a heart-to-heart with Gu Suizhi. After all, she is the biological daughter his adoptive mother had after marrying into the Fu family, so they share the same mother.

That night, for reasons unknown, his younger sister and younger brother get into a fight.

As the eldest brother, Fu Qiao has no choice but to step in and mediate. Just as he finishes, he drinks a glass of spiked liquor.

3.

His younger sister drugs him, but his younger brother arrives in time and gets to him first...

Absurd. Fu Qiao flies into a rage.

He grabs an ashtray and hurls it at Gu Suizhi by the bed. Gu Suizhi is struck until his head bleeds, yet his expression doesn't change.

He grabs Fu Qiao's hand and licks the blood spattered on his wrist.

Fu Qiao is speechless.

As blood drips from Gu Suizhi's forehead, and Fu Qiao looks at those eyes so like his adoptive mother's, memories of her raising him flash through his mind. Strangely, he calms down.

"...Let's end this here."

He tries to slam the door and leave, but Gu Suizhi catches him from behind.

Hot breath mingled with the smell of blood washes over him.

Gu Suizhi's fingers lock around Fu Qiao's waist. He takes out his phone, snaps a photo of them pressed close together, then rubs his chin against Fu Qiao's shoulder.

"Big brother."

4.

Gu Suizhi met Fu Qiao a long time ago.

He was locked in a school bathroom by bullies, drenched from head to toe in dirty water. Fu Qiao opened the stall door, handed him a tissue in surprise, then took off his own coat and gave it to him.

Later, he saw Fu Qiao at a school assembly held to thank him for his donation.

Fu Qiao was handsome, eloquent, and surrounded by admirers, the very image of an aristocratic young master.

Gu Suizhi followed in Fu Qiao's footsteps, replicated his résumé, and studied to become a favored son of heaven, all so that one day he could stand before him.

Then, one day,

Fu Qiao became his older brother.

Big brother is the wife Mom gave me.

An extremely possessive, deranged, ghostlike top x a steady, universally adored, exceptionally talented beauty of a bottom

One-to-one romance, happy ending, devoted couple

Theme: Keep a kind heart.