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When he was a child, he saw someone whose dazzling personality shone like the sun.
Together with his older brother, that person belonged to a little group Pu Yan longed to join, one he looked forward to being part of: "Only adults can join."
Until the brother he had looked up to as a role model died in a car accident.
That person came to his brother's funeral, too, sitting in the very last row with vacant eyes.
Only then did Pu Yan finally dispel the fog that had clouded his mind for so long and understand what the relationship he had always longed for really was: something more intimate than friendship.
It was his brother's funeral, yet the younger brother was happier than anyone.
The timing couldn't have been better. He didn't even need to struggle to keep up with the brother he'd always chased after. At the finish line, his rival had become a cold corpse, incapable of offering an embrace.
He approached the person he'd always wanted to touch, but when he raised a hand, he saw marks that absolutely should not have been there.
They weren't hickeys, but ligature marks, restraints, and dark purple scars that could only have formed over many years.
In that moment, the image of that person as someone as gentle and accepting as the sun crumbled. He could hardly show them the respect and politeness due to a so-called "sister-in-law."
That person wasn't his brother's widow after all.
They were a dog.
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A docile dog, kept in a cage since childhood.
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From the sidelines:
- Still competing? Sure, his brother's dead, but he died at the finish line.
- Go on, compete. I kind of feel sorry for this kid, too.
- He played with your brother like he was a dog. Playing with you will be child's play.
- No wonder you always had to sit at the kids' table.
- LOL, so who's the dog, really?
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The blurb seemed so good that I had to put it out there even though I haven't written a single word. I'll write it someday, I swear XD
Theme: See yourself and others clearly
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I Got an AI Boyfriend Right After Graduation, So I Decided to Lie Flat
Pretending to Be a Prophet in the Game I Made
A Willing Conquest (Quick Transmigration)
The Sickly, Easy-to-Bully Me Can Only Rely on Secret Identities
The Whole Sect Ships Me with My Secret Identity