I'm opening this one next. Princess, please add it to your collection!
After thinking it over carefully, I've decided to finish writing the whole thing before opening it. I currently have 100,000 words drafted.
A dark, unstable, very much alive seme with little warmth VS a kind, socially anxious uke who acts tough to stay alive
Cheng Wen died saving someone and transmigrated into a novel about a wealthy family's power struggles, becoming a cannon-fodder character. The original Cheng Wen was an arrogant B-king who made trouble everywhere, drove out his adopted older brother, and tried to monopolize the family fortune. In the end, he died miserably in the street.
When Cheng Wen transmigrated, the original had already set up his calculating adopted older brother, Cheng Fulin, to sleep with someone. This was the beginning of their already flimsy brotherly bond becoming even more strained, and of the original's eventual death in the street!
Cheng Wen hurried to save him.
Cheng Fulin: "What are you doing here?"
Cheng Wen did his best to play the original, obnoxious B-king. "The Cheng family's reputation can't be ruined because of you."
Help!
Would Cheng Fulin think there was something wrong with him?!
He'd ruined the Cheng family's reputation eight hundred years ago!
Just as Cheng Wen thought he could stay alive by clinging to Cheng Fulin, he suddenly realized that Cheng Fulin seemed... not to want to live anymore.
Cheng Fulin smoked and drank to excess, not caring about his health in the slightest. He even drank himself into the hospital.
What could Cheng Wen do!?
He could only keep up the act, putting on a lecturing air. "You drank yourself into the hospital. Still going through your rebellious phase?"
Aaaaaah!
Cheng Wen's toes were curling with embarrassment. What right did he have to lecture the villainous big boss?
Would Cheng Fulin kill him in a fit of rage?!
Ever since he could remember, Cheng Fulin had been shuffled from one relative's home to another, enduring their disdain, until his uncle finally took him in.
To repay his uncle, he was willing to work himself to the bone at the company and pave the way for his useless younger brother, Cheng Wen.
Then one day, Cheng Wen, who had always done nothing but put on airs, was still putting on airs, but with ears a little red, as he urged him to quit smoking and drinking.
Well, now. This was interesting.
[Synopsis written on 2025.2.7, revised on 2025.2.18. Copies have been saved on Weibo and in the photo album.]
Reading guide:
1. As usual, this is a 1v1, mutually faithful, sweet romance focused on the relationship. The seme is very calculating.
2. Haven't figured this out yet. I'll add more when I start posting.
Theme: Respect yourself.
