Feeding Flames to a Delicate Flower

[Money-Grubbing, Scheming Green Tea Top x Sickly, Brother-Obsessed, Twistedly Possessive Yandere Bottom]

Content warnings: Amnesia, melodrama, mutual torment, a long road to redemption, both leads are virgins, happy ending, updates most days.

(With that, I bow~)

The illustrious Nangong clan of Chili Immortal Manor was nearly wiped out by the demons a thousand years ago. Only two brothers survived.

The elder son, Nangong Chi, was a peerless genius with impeccable character. Through his own efforts, he restored the Nangong family's standing. He was engaged to the eldest daughter of the Bai family, but their wedding date had been postponed time and time again, and they had yet to marry.

It was all because of Nangong Jin, the second son of the Nangong family.

When the Nangong family was wiped out a thousand years ago, Nangong Jin was abducted by the demons. Though he was rescued, he was frail, and his immortal meridians had been completely destroyed. He became a laughingstock in Chili Immortal Manor. After that, whenever the Nangong and Bai families agreed on a wedding date, Nangong Jin would fall seriously ill and nearly die.

Perhaps because he'd been frail since childhood, Nangong Jin did everything to the extreme and held himself to almost impossibly high standards. Yet he was especially dependent on his elder brother, and was the obedient little brother his brother cherished most.

But his brother didn't know that Nangong Jin had two faces.

In front of his brother: a sweet, gentle puppy of a little brother.

Behind his brother's back: Your left hand just touched my brother's hair. (Smiles tenderly.) Can I have it? I want it. (The blade falls.)

Anyone who dared to hurt his brother was tortured to death if Nangong Jin could overpower them. If not, he fought to the death to torture them anyway.

So, as far as Nangong Jin was concerned, that woman from the Bai family wasn't good enough for his brother. Naturally, the marriage could never happen.

"So I want you to help me get rid of him. Once it's done, my Bai family will wipe out your family's debt."

Wen Yan lowered his head, not looking at the eldest Bai daughter.

He'd heard they'd already sent countless people for this job: beauties, assassins, even beautiful assassins. Why were they sending him now? Nangong Jin was a lunatic. Everyone sent there died. Him? Did they think he had a death wish? He wasn't going.

A few days later.

A handsome young man dressed in mourning appeared at the Nangong residence, kneeling at the gate and offering himself as a servant. His sobs were so plaintive that everyone who heard them was moved. The kind-hearted master of the Nangong family came out and, before the eyes of the crowd, took him in as a servant.

Nangong Jin stood beside his elder brother, looking at the pitiful young man named Wen Yan. The corners of his mouth slowly rose.

"Brother, this servant, Wen Yan, is so delicate and always gets bullied. It's pitiful. Send him to my room to keep me company."

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At first, Nangong Jin merely thought about finding an opportunity to kill this man, as easily as snapping a delicate flower. But later, he discovered that this flower was the very rose he'd known as a child.

Perhaps there are five thousand flowers in the world that are just like you, but you alone are my one and only rose.

The Little Prince

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