Sorry, everyone. I originally planned to write a story about two boys who were switched at birth, separated, then reunited. But while fleshing out the outline, I realized I'm not very good at writing angsty separation-and-reunion romances. I seem to be a sweet-romance writer, so I plan to change it into a fluffy sweet story where they never separate.
I'm really sorry. Feel free to unfavorite it.
[I'm truly sorry. Please forgive me.]
Original blurb, to be revised
Lan Shi discovers in the school's gossip group that the new transfer student has the same father as he does.
Even more coincidentally, they're roommates.
Lan Shi be like: Let me see what you're like, you fake.
On his first day in the dorm, Lan Shi sees a ridiculously handsome boy, though he looks gloomy and doesn't say a word.
This is the "brother" from the gossip.
Lan Shi is a young master with a bad temper. He likes ordering people around and being pampered, and he's always surrounded by a crowd. The only person he ignores is Xiao Chen.
Xiao Chen watches him coldly and keeps his distance from the young master.
Until one day, the young master skips class and gets caught. He can't climb down from the wall, so he has no choice but to ask Xiao Chen for help.
Xiao Chen looks thoughtful, but his actions say one thing: no.
Then they both have to write a self-criticism.
Gradually, Lan Shi starts treating Xiao Chen like a brother. When he learns Xiao Chen is poor and has lost both his parents, he takes Xiao Chen along everywhere, practically becoming his one-man poverty-relief program.
Meanwhile, the look in Xiao Chen's eyes grows stranger and stranger.
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When Xiao Chen is eighteen, his biological parents come looking for him. It turns out he's the real young master of the richest family, switched at birth.
To make it up to him and protect the fake young master, the family transfers them both to the same school.
The real young master is innocent and fun, but the pity and sympathy he gives Xiao Chen feel like a cruel joke from fate.
Later, Xiao Chen falls in love with the boy who was born on the same day as him.
Even after their identities are revealed, they separate and reunite, but his feelings never change.
As for Lan Shi, it takes him until many years later, when he's studying abroad in a foreign country and all alone, to understand the look Xiao Chen gave him back then.
It was pity, helpless tenderness, and mockery.
1. Happy ending. The real and fake young masters won't become enemies.
2. An innocent, sunny boy who is the bottom x a gloomy, stingy-to-everyone-but-him, tongue-tied top.
Theme: Personal growth