A Guide to Adopting a Clingy Darling

Older, restrained, fatherly top x straightforward, passionate puppy-like bottom

Six-year age gap

At six years old, Chen Qi'an was brought into the Chen family as an illegitimate child and given the "warmest welcome" by his rich playboy half-brother.

His brother taught him to swim, then pushed him into deep water when he couldn't swim at all.

His brother took him exploring, leading him into an abandoned, unfinished building and leaving him trapped there late at night.

His brother invited him up a mountain to watch the sunrise, then secretly fed him sleeping pills and left him outside the tent in freezing weather.

Every time, Chen Qi'an thought he was going to die. And every time, Zhou Bonian would appear like a hero from the heavens and save him from despair.

*

At eighteen, Chen Qi'an followed Zhou Bonian to his city to attend university.

Zhou Bonian took care of everything for him. In front of Zhou Bonian, Chen Qi'an could get away with absolutely anything.

But everyone told Chen Qi'an that he couldn't depend on Zhou Bonian forever.

Chen Qi'an couldn't imagine what life without Zhou Bonian would be like. How could he stay with Zhou Bonian forever?

Just as Chen Qi'an was worrying about it, he accidentally overheard the person who was his brother in name only, biologically speaking, say maliciously to Zhou Bonian, "You're so good to that bastard Chen Qi'an, but isn't it just because you want to sleep with him?"

The very next moment, Zhou Bonian rebuked him fiercely, his tone firm and leaving no room for argument.

Chen Qi'an suddenly saw the light.

Right! Why not just date Zhou Bonian?

If he became Zhou Bonian's partner, wouldn't they be able to stay together forever?

*

Chen Qi'an tried everything he could to win Zhou Bonian over, but things barely progressed.

Just as Chen Qi'an was about to force himself on Zhou Bonian, Zhou Bonian stopped him.

"Do you like me?"

After asking, Zhou Bonian answered for him: "No. You don't like me. You're just grateful to me, and dependent on me."

Chen Qi'an didn't know whether Zhou Bonian was right, but he knew he should move out.

The next time they met, Chen Qi'an was passed out drunk at the bar entrance, and Zhou Bonian was called over by his helpless friends to pick him up.

Seeing that familiar figure, Chen Qi'an threw his arms around him without a word. "I thought you'd abandoned me."

Zhou Bonian sighed in resignation. "I never will."

Reader's Guide

· They are each other's first love

· A clingy, lovey-dovey romance, with strong mutual feelings

· The supporting characters are a side couple who only help the main pair in the story. They will have their own bonus chapters.

My next book is a period-set fake-incest novel, Cold Front Passing Through

[Self-made business elite top x favored genius tech expert bottom]

The first time Fu Shichuan saw Li Leyu, he didn't like the younger brother fortune-telling had brought into his life.

His beautiful, pale, frail mother urged him gently: "You two are brothers now. You have to take good care of your little brother."

Fu Shichuan stiffened his neck and said disdainfully, "I'm not going to treat him like my little brother."

-

Fu Shichuan hated this stranger for taking his parents' affection away from him. He hated how his younger brother could get so much more attention just by acting cute and pretending to be sick. He hated how Li Leyu would get him scolded whenever he got into trouble.

Fu Shichuan sulked in his room until someone suddenly knocked on the door.

Outside, Li Leyu held up the prettiest ginkgo leaf he'd found and looked up at him. "Big brother, this is for you."

Fu Shichuan clutched the ginkgo leaf in his hand and stared into Li Leyu's bright eyes. He thought, he's not going to win me over that easily.

-

An abrupt upheaval came like a cold wave, tearing apart the once-happy family.

Their parents died, and the brothers were separated. They should have had nothing more to do with each other, but on the first day of his adulthood, Fu Shichuan found Li Leyu and said to the boy who was no longer family, "Let's go home."

The rain stopped and the clouds cleared. Sitting on the back of Fu Shichuan's bicycle, Li Leyu looked up at the sky and said, "A cold front is passing through."

Fu Shichuan asked, "What?"

Li Leyu replied, "It's a weather phenomenon. After a cold front passes, the sky clears."

Fu Shichuan pedaled steadily, carrying Li Leyu toward an unknown future.

The weather was still cold. They had lost everything, but they also had everything.

-

On the last day of 1999, the fabled end of the world, they huddled together in their cramped rented room, listening to the celebrations for the new millennium outside.

Fu Shichuan asked, "They say the world ends today. Are you scared?"

Li Leyu pressed close to him. "As long as I'm with you, I'm not afraid of any apocalypse."

Fu Shichuan was silent for a long, long time. "If there is a future, I won't treat you like my little brother anymore."

Core Message: May every year bring abundance and every year bring peace.