The Fake Young Master Doesn't Want to Suffer Anymore

After discovering that she'd been switched at birth, Jian Zhuo eloped with her boyfriend and left the Lu family, where she'd grown up.

A few years later, her beloved boyfriend died suddenly in an accident. His family threw her out of the home they'd shared, and she had no choice but to seek Lu Ting's help and protection.

Lu Ting, the older brother who had raised her himself, had become the undisputed head of the Lu family over the years.

In the shadowy study, the tip of a cigarette glowed and dimmed. The man sat high above her, his gaze cold and inscrutable.

"How did you end up like this after leaving me?"

Jian Zhuo lowered her head in shame.

She stood barefoot on the cold, smooth floor, wearing only a thin nightgown. A strip of black mourning gauze was wrapped around her arm.

"Come here." Lu Ting stubbed out his cigarette and held out a hand. "Baby, come to me."

* A fatherly patriarch x a greenhouse rose. Short story, written in a Hong Kong-style voice

* Older seme, significant age gap, neither is sexually inexperienced; the uke had a late husband, and the seme used to be straight. Melodrama warning, don't read if it's not your thing

Theme: Lovers will find their way to each other