**Introduction to the work "Xiangqi"**
When Xia Linqi was seventeen, his father brought a woman and a strange boy home and announced that he was going to remarry. What made it even more difficult for him to accept was that the boy named Liu Xiangyue was actually wearing his missing school uniform - the last gift that his mother had mended for him before she was alive.
"He is your brother." Said the father.
But Xia Linqi never knew that he had a younger brother. If Liu Xiangyue is sixteen years old and his mother has only passed away two years ago, it means that his father has already betrayed the family. Anger and rejection grew in his heart. He refused to acknowledge this sudden "family", and he couldn't bear the other party's cautious approach.
However, when Xia Linqi discovered that Liu Xiangyue would silently put a cup of hot milk when he stayed up late to review, would wait for him to get out of school with an umbrella on rainy days, and would even stay by the bedside all night when he had a fever... Those sharp hostility was melted away little by little.
"Brother." The young man called him softly, with emotions in his eyes that he could not express.
From resistance to acceptance, from alienation to intimacy, when Xia Linqi finally saw his true feelings clearly, blood ties, ethics and rumors became thorns between the two.
**If love is taboo, how should they live together? **
——This is a story about wound healing and mutual redemption. From "I don't need a brother" to "I just want you", Xia Linqi and Xia Xiangyue (formerly known as Liu Xiangyue) found their place in a broken family.
Concept: Concept of the work: Through the emotional transformation of a pair of reorganized family "brothers" from estrangement to love, explore the boundaries between blood ties and emotions, show how traumatized hearts can complete two-way redemption in sincere companionship, and ultimately break secular prejudices and use love to rebuild a stronger emotional connection than the original family. (Core conceptual dimensions: 1. The dialectical relationship between emotion and blood 2. The psychological reconstruction process after trauma 3. The legitimacy of atypical family relationships 4. The growth of adolescent self-identity 5. The conflict between secular rules and real emotions)