After a Handsome Older Brother Took Me In

[Complete. Thank you for your support!]

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Blurb:

In the unbearably hot summer, Xu Huan finds Song Jinxu, covered in wounds, by the roadside.

The twelve-year-old boy curls up in the heat. Sweat and blood mingle, staining the ground beneath him.

When the heat finally eases and the wind dies down, Xu Huan braces himself and clumsily shields the boy behind him.

He keeps protecting him for seven years.

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Winter comes again.

The bitter wind howls outside the window as Xu Huan cooks congee and feeds him.

Song Jinxu, delirious with fever, stares dazedly at the small mole on Xu Huan's neck and suddenly remembers his aunt's scolding:

"You jinx! Nobody wants you!"

But he isn't unwanted.

Xu Huan massages the bruises from his shoulder blades in the dead of night.

And in the morning, he smooths away the nightmares that cling to his bones.

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On the night he turns eighteen, Song Jinxu accepts the cake Xu Huan bought him and closes his eyes to make a wish.

But at the next corner, he sees Xu Huan being confessed to by a girl.

As the neon lights flicker, a suffocating ache spreads through his heart.

Some feelings arrive without a sound.

They began when he was an inexperienced twelve-year-old, and have stretched into an uncertain future.

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"Big brother."

Song Jinxu pins him against the door, the dry, rusty taste of blood filling his throat.

"Don't leave me behind."

The wind rises beneath the moon. Xu Huan suddenly realizes that the brotherly affection he believed they shared had changed into something else in secret.

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Younger man and older man, growing up together, mutual pining that becomes real, a little gray puppy grows into a big black wolf

Gentle beauty bottom x restrained lone-dog top

Xu Huan x Song Jinxu

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[Please Note]

1. A practice piece written for my personal tastes, with an age-gap romance, 1v1, and both leads' first relationship.

2. Completely original. No need to tell me if you drop it.

3. The story begins sometime in the 2010s.

4. Note added on 2025.4.23.

5. Hope you enjoy reading and find a story you love~ =v=

Theme: Mutual support and brotherly affection.