Jian Yu'an lived for sixteen years before realizing that the world he inhabited was actually a ridiculous, sugary romance novel called *My Mom Is Actually the Beloved First Love of a Powerful Tycoon?!*
[When Song Xingchen was fourteen, his biological father revealed his true scumbag nature. He abandoned his wife and son, transferred the family’s assets to his mistress, and fled overseas, leaving him and his mother, Song Yun, saddled with enormous debts and plunged into hell.
But before the creditors came, his mother’s first love did: Jian Xiucheng, the head of one of Haicheng’s most powerful families.
Only then did Song Xingchen learn that his mother and Jian Xiucheng had been in love when they were young, and that she had even been pregnant with Jian Xiucheng’s child. The two should have ended up together, but Jian family elders forcibly split them apart. His older half-brother had also been taken away by the Jian family, who wouldn’t let Song Yun visit him.
They each married someone else and lost touch.
Many years later, Jian Xiucheng had become the undisputed head of the Jian family, and his wife, whom he’d married for the sake of an alliance, had been dead for years. At last, he married his beloved first love.
And so Song Xingchen followed his mother into the Jian family and became its “young master.” From then on, he enjoyed a charmed life, adored by everyone, and rose to the top as the family’s favorite.
But Jian Yu'an, the younger son born to Jian Xiucheng and his wife from that political marriage, and the Jian family’s original young master, was the cannon-fodder villain in this story about a pampered young heir.
Resenting his father’s remarriage and the new “Mrs. Jian” and “young master” in the household, Jian Yu'an was full of bitterness and made life difficult for the mother and son at every turn, lashing out at them with cruel words.
Kindhearted and innocent Song Xingchen tried again and again to befriend him, treating him like a real older brother. But Jian Yu'an refused to appreciate it and only went further, doing everything he could to frame and torment him, until Jian Xiucheng saw his true nature.
Jian Yu'an was banished overseas to fend for himself. The novel brushed off his final fate in a single, understated line:
…Second Young Master Jian, who had treated Song Xingchen so badly, drank himself into a stupor every day overseas, fell into a swimming pool, and drowned.
After his awareness awakened, Jian Yu'an gave a cold laugh.
What a joke. He would never let himself come to such a miserable, pitiful end!
He would change the plot before it happened and turn the story’s ending around.
…
Song Xingchen, who had followed his mother into the Jian family and become its young master, won over Haicheng’s powerful families with his adorable looks and sweet, innocent personality. He was the undisputed favorite of them all, and grew up safe and happy, with everything going his way.
He thought he would always be adored like this, with everyone holding him in the palm of their hand.
Until one day, someone new appeared at a Jian family banquet.
Song Xingchen unexpectedly met a pair of clear, beautiful amber eyes, and paused at the cool detachment in their gaze.
The person greeted him casually. “Hello, Song Xingchen.”
Only then did Song Xingchen realize that he’d heard the servants mention the older stepbrother whom Jian Xiucheng’s ex-wife had taken overseas: the Jian family’s real young master had returned.
[Cool and refined, alluring young master bottom × scheming, deep, hopelessly-in-love CEO top]
Theme: People can overcome fate
