If You’re My Brother, Be My Boyfriend

Ke Yan has an older brother who has cared for him since he was little.

His brother is gentle. When Ke Yan is sick, he stays by his bedside, and whenever Ke Yan opens his eyes, he can take his brother's hand.

His brother is strict, too. When Ke Yan does something wrong, he punishes him without mercy, making sure that the pain teaches Ke Yan never to do it again.

Ke Yan once thought his brother would always be there for him.

Until his brother got engaged to someone else.

Lu Mingze was going to have a new family.

Lu Mingze would no longer belong to him alone.

Keeping a secret he couldn't put into words, Ke Yan went to a bar by himself and drank until he was utterly wasted.

Amid the cheering crowd, Ke Yan unbuttoned his shirt, climbed onto a table, and danced wildly to music that would definitely earn him a beating from Lu Mingze if his brother saw him.

*

Lu Mingze was the most loyal guardian the Ke family had raised for their young master.

He watched Ke Yan grow up, never once daring to hope he could have this moon all to himself.

The child who once clung to his neck and said they would be together forever had, in the end, found a secret he didn't want Lu Mingze to know.

Lu Mingze painfully learned to let go. He followed the Ke family's wishes and entered an engagement based solely on mutual benefit.

That evening, a friend dragged him to a bar. Amid the roaring music and heated crowd, Lu Mingze saw the person who haunted his thoughts, the person who was about to become his obsession.

With a grim face, he pushed through the crowd and looked up at Ke Yan, who had always acted like a good boy in front of him. "Get down."

For the first time, Ke Yan refused him. Every word he said cut into Lu Mingze like a knife. "You're not even my real brother! What gives you the right to control me?"

*

Ke Yan ran away from home, or more accurately, he ran away from Lu Mingze.

He wouldn't see Lu Mingze until the day his brother acknowledged what they felt for each other.

But Ke Yan never expected his sleep disorder, which had been gone for nearly two years, to return.

When Ke Yan finally woke from his hazy sleep, Lu Mingze was sitting beside his bed, his eyes red.

"Scaredy-cat." Ke Yan tried to lighten the mood.

But this time, Lu Mingze didn't scold him. He took Ke Yan's hand and pressed it against his own forehead.

His brother showed him a vulnerability he had never seen before.

"Yes, I'm a scaredy-cat."

"So, Ke Yan, please never scare me like that again."

A younger brother who dances wildly outside and acts innocent at home, secretly in love with his older brother x a steady, serious, endlessly patient, fatherly loyal-dog older brother

Reader's Guide:

1. One-on-one romance, happy ending. The brother's engagement will be resolved amicably later in the story.

2. The younger brother is an adult and has a chronic illness. He previously suffered from Kleine-Levin syndrome, also known as Sleeping Beauty syndrome.

3. They are not related by blood and do not share household registration.

Theme: Be honest about your feelings and build a healthy, harmonious intimate relationship.