My Crown Prince Brother and I Get Along Like Brothers

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Top-tier, gloomy, and unhinged brother-obsessed prince gong × a sickly beauty shou who seems sweet but is secretly ruthless

As an adopted son, a frail and sickly mute, Su Lingshen has never been treated well by his family, and his schoolmates are always bullying him.

Though he cannot speak, he never lets a slight go unavenged. As he grows older, he unexpectedly discovers that his adoptive younger brother is conspiring with court officials to have him killed.

Su Lingshen knows he's a nobody, with no one to back him against powerful officials and no chance of winning. If he wants to live, he'll have to use someone else to do his dirty work.

As luck would have it, the Su family has offended the Crown Prince. Rumor has it that the prince is violent and ruthless, and anyone who crosses him comes to a bad end.

While the whole family waits anxiously for the furious Crown Prince to punish them, Su Lingshen volunteers to take the blame.

Because the night before, he'd dreamed that the Crown Prince was searching for a younger brother he had lost many years ago, the one he had doted on since childhood.

And Su Lingshen bears a striking resemblance to that brother.

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With a few clever tricks and a show of obedience, Su Lingshen successfully impersonates the missing boy and becomes the Crown Prince's younger brother.

He discovers that the Crown Prince really does dote on his younger brother. Whatever Su Lingshen does, the Crown Prince takes the blame for him without complaint.

With the Crown Prince at his back, Su Lingshen can casually slap a couple of lowly officials across the face.

But little by little, Su Lingshen begins to sense that the brotherly affection between him and the Crown Prince is crossing a line.

The Crown Prince's gaze no longer seems to be that of a man looking at his young, affection-starved younger brother. Instead, it's as if he's looking at someone else through him.

His gaze makes Su Lingshen's scalp prickle.

The Crown Prince is so violent and cruel that if he discovers Su Lingshen's identity is fake, Su Lingshen will surely die.

So on the night his deception is exposed, Su Lingshen packs his things and flees without a second thought.

But just a few days later, the Crown Prince and his men corner him at a military camp by the pass.

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In the tent, candlelight flickers dimly. The Crown Prince pins Su Lingshen beneath him. Between their elaborate sleeves, Su Lingshen presses the tip of his knife against the prince's stomach and silently mouths:

[Let me go, or I'll kill you too.]

The Crown Prince acts as if he doesn't notice. The blade sinks into his flesh. He bends down, bites Su Lingshen's neck, and gently grazes it with his teeth.

"I don't understand why you've changed, Su Xiangxiang."

"Last time, I hated you and ignored you, and you insisted on staying by my side. This time, I love you and protect you, yet you want to leave me?"

Reading Guide:

1. Both are pure, one-on-one pairing, no blood relation between gong and shou, older gong who pampers shou.

2. A non-typical hated-by-everyone-to-beloved-by-everyone story.

3. The shou's muteness will be cured later.

4. No ship-breaking, reverse ships, dream ships, or extreme fan behavior. No writing or word-choice advice. You don't need to announce you're dropping the story; comments like that will be deleted.

Coming soon: The World-Weary Minister Reborn as His Nemesis's Fake Crown Prince

A refined, scheming, powerful emperor gong × a femme fatale minister shou with self-destructive tendencies

33 × 18

Li Fuyang devoted his entire life to serving the ruler of Lantiao, only to be branded a treacherous minister and imprisoned in the inner palace at the very end.

Tired of struggling to survive, Li Fuyang downed a cup of poisoned wine and ended his life.

In the end, the only person willing to come and collect his body was Li Huai, the tyrant of the enemy state he'd fought for his entire life.

When Li Fuyang opened his eyes, he was reborn, back at the age of fifteen.

The good news: he'd been reborn in the body of an idiot with the same name in the enemy state.

The bad news: the idiot was Li Huai's son.

Ha, you've got to be kidding. He had to be his nemesis's son?

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The boy he'd replaced had been pampered for twenty years, only for his true identity to be exposed one day. He was subjected to brutal torture and his body was never found.

His identity won't be exposed for another five years. Li Fuyang first decides to restore order in Lantiao and put a different ruler on the throne.

Later, he decides to defect to Li Huai and help him conquer the world.

In the end, Li Fuyang lies flat in front of Li Huai every day, living off him and waiting to die, hoping to meet his end before his identity is revealed and be reborn as soon as possible.

Still, to keep enjoying his current wealth and status, Li Fuyang can't help giving Li Huai some advice on ruling the realm and offering a few strategies.

And so, as he coasts along, the country grows powerful, the people prosper, Li Huai's hold on power grows firm, and the number of ministers rallying to Li Fuyang steadily increases. He gets farther and farther from the death he wants.

Li Huai even keeps holding him close and praising him without reservation: "My Fuyang is so clever."

Li Fuyang: ...What's going on? Wasn't I supposed to be coasting?

With his supposed date of death fast approaching, Li Fuyang panics. He picks an auspicious day and plans to hang himself from a roof beam.

But before he can hang the silk from the beam, it wraps around his body that night.

Bound tightly and unable to move, Li Fuyang watches the culprit lower his head and press his forehead against his. His smile is warm, but his tone is icy: "Fuyang, behave. Don't make trouble."

Li Fuyang senses the tender love in his words, and his throat tightens for a moment. "I'm your son..."

"I know, my good son. Last time you wanted to trade two cities with me for Jinzhou, and you called me 'Daddy' so many times that night. I remember it all."

Li Fuyang: "..."

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In his previous life, Li Fuyang was ordered to negotiate with Li Huai to secure a strategic military location.

By day, they clashed fiercely at the negotiating table. At night, he had straddled Li Huai, his clothes half removed, and made love to him until they were both spent.

Reading Guide:

1. Both are pure and both are reborn. The gong has no empress, consorts, concubines, or attendants in his bedchamber, not even palace maids.

2. Their age gap is fifteen years in both their past and present lives.

3. The shou was never in the imperial clan records. When their romance begins, everyone already knows that he and the gong are unrelated.

4. This is not a child-rearing story. There aren't many scenes from before the shou turns eighteen.

5. The gong is a bad person, and the shou isn't a good person either. It's a story about nemeses in a certain sense.

Theme: Live well and keep moving forward.