The Illegitimate Son Doesn't Want to Be Reborn

Ye Bozhou entered the Xue family at six as the wealthy household’s illegitimate son. His father saw him as a stain on his marriage, while the first wife considered it beneath her to hurt a child and simply turned a blind eye. Everyone ignored and abandoned him. The only person who occasionally paid him any attention was his legitimate half brother, Xue Shu, six years his senior. Xue Shu gave him birthday cakes, played with him, and tended to his wounds. When Ye Bozhou was bullied for being illegitimate, Xue Shu even stood up for him. He grew up wild and free. When Xue Shu died at thirty, his will named Ye Bozhou as heir to the family group. He coasted all the way to the top, and everyone who mentioned him remarked on how lucky he was. He honored Xue Shu’s wishes, lived well, cared for the elders, and inherited the family business... until every member of the Xue family had passed away one by one. Only then did he learn that he wasn’t their biological child. Before he could even process it, a truck driver fell asleep at the wheel and sent his car crashing off a mountain road. When he opened his eyes again, he was a little child, not yet part of the Xue family. Thinking of his true origins and the decades of loneliness and estrangement ahead, he felt exhausted and disillusioned. Without hesitation, he chose a path entirely different from the one he’d taken in his previous life. Using the advantage of being reborn, he brought the release of the miracle drug that could treat Xue Shu forward by ten years. Once he was sure Xue Shu would be all right, Ye Bozhou drove to the mountain road where he had died in his previous life. A second before his car broke through the guardrail, he saw Xue Shu’s car racing toward him, blocking the cliff ahead. Their vehicles collided. Wrapped in the airbag, with suffocation closing in, Ye Bozhou suddenly felt a flicker of regret. In two lifetimes, he had never managed to sleep with his unrelated, non-biological, bargain-bin big brother. = Starting at twelve, Xue Shu repeatedly dreamed of the same person. Thin, solitary, pitiful, and free as the wind. Good at pretending to be obedient, wrinkling his nose to wheedle affection, and calling him “big brother” in a sweet voice. But every time he opened his eyes, the figure in his dreams vanished without a trace. Then, one day, he saw that person in real life. He wasn’t obedient at all. Cold, obsessive, and unhinged, with nothing in his head but death and sex. Xue Shu held his wandering hand and taught him, “Dr. Ye, this isn’t love.” “I know that, of course.” Ye Bozhou gazed at him for a long time, pulled his hand free, and carried on. “Do you think I’d know how to love if I didn’t have this?” Xue Shu kissed the lips that so often spoke words of self-loathing. Talking openly about love with Dr. Ye was difficult. But doing it was easy. Both are reborn. Xue Shu will gradually recover his memories. The seemingly aloof and stubborn top is deeply self-destructive, consumed by obsessive thoughts that hurt both himself and others, and wants to die. The seemingly frigid bottom is anything but, and refuses to let his husband die. Next up: Stop Dreaming Already! Yu Guannian hates Li Shao. Li Shao is his ex-husband. They married for business, but there was no love after the wedding. After their divorce, Li Shao’s career soared and his fortune multiplied, while Yu Guannian’s family went bankrupt and he ended up homeless. Then Li Shao took him in as his personal assistant. His ex was now his boss: handsome, composed, and the picture of a fine young man. As for him, he was gloomy, difficult, and a complete mess. But Yu Guannian didn’t hate his ex out of resentment. It was because... Every night, he showed up in Li Shao’s dreams. Erotic dreams. = Human Resources caught Yu Guannian smoking and reported him to Li Shao. Two hundred yuan was docked from his salary, and he had to make a PowerPoint on an empty stomach. He cursed as he worked, then nodded off from exhaustion. In Li Shao’s dream, Yu Guannian was bent over the bedside, legs too weak to close, smoking after sex. Li Shao pressed against his back and kissed him, tasting the smoke as he said, “One more time.” At a meeting, Yu Guannian took notes and deleted everything Li Shao said. That night, Li Shao held him on his lap and tested his listening skills. Every missing word earned a smack on the butt. At night, Yu Guannian was afraid to sleep, so he caught a nap at the office during the day. The dream shifted, and suddenly he was curled up beneath Li Shao’s desk, clothes in disarray. He hated Li Shao so much! = Li Shao had been in love with Yu Guannian for a long time. But Yu Guannian had insisted on divorcing him when they were married, and after the divorce he avoided him even more. Li Shao didn’t know what to do, so he could only keep his distance and watch from afar. He could just about keep himself in check during the day, but at night he couldn’t control himself. He wanted to be more intimate with the person he cherished most. But reality was different from dreams. He noticed Yu Guannian growing more sensitive to physical contact, and when drunk, clinging to him and begging for kisses. The thought that the one he loved might have a partner broke his heart. Unable to hold back, he asked, “Could we get married again?” Yu Guannian looked at him, his expression shifting again and again, then snapped, “Stop dreaming already!” Li Shao was heartbroken. He got drunk and passed out. In his dream, the person he loved was tangled up with someone else. Fighting through the pain, he went over and saw that the other man had his own face. He climbed onto the bed and caressed his soft-hearted, affectionate beloved. Yu Guannian smacked his hand away, on the verge of a breakdown. “Didn’t I tell you to stop dreaming already?!” Theme: Cherish life! Life is beautiful, so please keep going!