My Bro Is Seriously Ill

Feel free to check out the upcoming novel, The Villainous Fake Prince's Survival Guide. Its blurb is below.

The main story is complete. Extra chapters will be posted from time to time~

Blurb:

When Gu Ling was eighteen, he came from a comfortable family and met Zhou Qi, who lived beside a garbage dump.

The kindhearted young master wanted to share half his happiness, helping the poor, taciturn boy and patching up his ragged life.

When they met again ten years later, Gu Ling was the one who needed patching up.

But Zhou Qi wasn't doing much better. He seemed to have made it big, but was actually on the verge of bankruptcy, had nowhere to go, and was suffering from a hidden ailment.

Gu Ling's sympathy flared up again, and he took in his good friend.

There wasn't much else he could do, but he could help treat that hidden ailment.

What he didn't know was that his friend only seemed unemployed. He was actually a rising star and a business magnate. His friend said he couldn't perform with women, but just smelling Gu Ling was enough to get him rock-hard.

He knew even less that on countless nights when he slept, the honest man who always said, "All right, A-Ling," burned Gu Ling's entire body into his memory with a beast's gaze.

The clothes that mysteriously went missing were kept in a hidden corner, faded from frequent use.

A villa was filled with portraits and photos of him, and the collection kept growing.

The "honest man" built a golden cage around him. By the time Gu Ling realized it, he had been fastened with a gold chain and could no longer escape.

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Zhou Qi was sick. Since he was a boy, his body had only ever responded to one person.

Not wanting to profane that person, he chose to keep it secret for the rest of his life.

But by a twist of fate, that person found out.

Thinking he was simply impotent, that person enthusiastically helped him "get better" every day. Zhou Qi was trembling with excitement but had to pretend he felt nothing, suffering "unspeakably."

He was even more afraid that if Gu Ling found out, they couldn't even remain friends.

And the very thing he feared came to pass. Gu Ling found out and ran away.

The good news: He was brought back.

The bad news: He was already gravely ill, which was why Gu Ling had been helping him "get better."

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At first, Gu Ling followed his good friend, moved into a big house, and started living the good life. He diligently helped treat his condition, giving kisses, hugs, and praise, putting on women's clothes and calling Zhou Qi "big brother," and even recording his physical data.

Zhou Qi asked him, "A-Ling, we're both straight men. Doesn't this bother you?"

"No. It doesn't bother you either."

Gu Ling didn't think much of it at the time. Later, he figured it out.

He was a rabbit driven to run for its life, and before it could smash into the post of fate and die, the little tortoise Zhou Qi had stopped him.

But later, Gu Ling realized Zhou Qi wasn't a little tortoise at all. He was a great big wolf! Once he'd sunk his teeth into Gu Ling, he wouldn't let go. Not even death could take him away!

The pursuer is a disciplined, self-controlled, upright, and honest man in front of the one he loves, but is secretly a madly infatuated, possessive industry mogul with a pathological obsession.

The pursued is a sunny, innocent rich kid in his youth, and a deliveryman after their reunion who thinks he's clever but is actually softhearted and slow to catch on.

1. This story has no logic. Everything is in service of the couple being lovey-dovey.

2. The pursuer's condition is fundamentally psychological. He only feels anything for the pursued and can't get it up for anyone else, like a mental chastity belt. The pursuer will cure the pursued's condition with his money powers.

3. The pursuer disappeared without a trace for a reason. After their reunion, he is extremely possessive, with a fetish for the pursued's belongings, an obsession with his scent, and darkly watchful behavior. He hides it very well. After the pursued discovers the truth, there will be a plot where one runs and the other chases, and escape is impossible.

Upcoming Novel Blurb

The Villainous Fake Prince's Survival Guide

A beautiful, timid, foolish villain: the fake prince, the pursued

An honest man forced to turn evil, torn between love and hate and able only to have sex fueled by hatred: the real crown prince, the pursuer

Fifth Prince Zhao Qingzhuo was as beautiful as a celestial being. He was also the child of prophecy, destined to assist a wise ruler, so he was adored from a young age and grew spoiled and domineering.

Then the scandal of the switched prince broke: he was an impostor, a fake who had replaced the real prince!

To evade pursuit, he disguised himself as a woman and fled into the mountains, using his beauty to seduce a simple young hunter into becoming his husband.

After a month of scraping by on meager food, an amnesty decree arrived, and Zhao Qingzhuo was finally welcomed back to the palace as the Fifth Prince. As for the hunter who knew his disgraceful secret, of course he had to be killed as soon as possible.

But from then on, the hunter's ghost demanded its fill from him in his dreams every night.

The forest, the moonlight, the mountain spring, the cottage: every time he had ordered the hunter around, kicked him, or cursed him, it was all repaid, one incident at a time. And, naturally, so was the torture he had ultimately ordered.

"Three thousand six hundred cuts. How do you plan to repay me, Yu'er?" The ghost chuckled. An intangible chill, sharp as a hunting knife, opened Zhao Qingzhuo's lapels and invaded him without restraint.

Zhao Qingzhuo cried and begged for mercy, but all he really wanted was to make the ghost vanish forever.

He prayed to the gods and sought guidance from a venerable monk, who told him only the Crown Prince's dragon aura could drive away ghosts.

Just then, rumors spread that the real prince had been brought back to the palace and would be made Crown Prince.

Zhao Qingzhuo was overjoyed. He rushed to cling to the Crown Prince, but his legs began to shake the moment he saw him.

The dragon's son, revered by all, looked exactly like the ghost from his dreams!

That night, the Fifth Prince soaked up the Crown Prince's dragon aura and cried himself hoarse.

Though Yang Jian was an orphan, he believed good and evil were repaid in kind, and devoted himself to doing good deeds and building up good karma.

When the woman he saved said she would repay him by marrying him, he did everything he could to treat her well. He never expected her to be a man, or that he would repay kindness with a desire to take his life.

Human hearts were treacherous, and all his goodwill was destroyed.

Now reborn with a new body, he had become the Crown Prince. He would make that fake prince, a villain in truth, pay for what he had done.

But before his sword could draw blood, tears dulled its edge.

Through their shared dreams, he saw the cruel, arrogant little snake sobbing so hard he could barely breathe. "Don't, don't kill me... I'll do anything you want, sob..."

Yang Jian, also known as Zhao Zheng, Crown Prince of the Great Jin, felt his heart stir.

"You said it yourself."

With the Crown Prince governing in the Emperor's stead, the Great Jin finally ended a century of turmoil.

The young heir repelled the barbarians in the north and brought famine under control in the south. With sweeping reforms, peace came to every corner of the realm, and the people gave him their hearts.

Yet every night, cries and curses rang out from the Crown Prince's bedchamber.

"Sob, that's enough! We just did it in the dream!"

Theme: Good people are rewarded.