My Long-Lost Brother Became a Big Shot and Says He'll Take Care of Me

[My upcoming novel, My Fake Brother Became a Real Daddy, features the wrongfully switched younger brother vs. the older brother. Please add it to your reading list.]

[This novel -> Brothers | White sneakers x black leather shoes | Brother-obsessed x doting older brother | 181 cm x 191 cm | One-on-one, both chaste]

The year Lin Jiachen turned eighteen, he dropped out of high school. After leaving school, he felt completely lost about his future.

He dyed his hair pink and spent several nights gaming at an internet cafe, figuring that once he'd spent the two hundred yuan in his pocket, he might as well get a factory job tightening screws.

Then, one morning, he walked out of the internet cafe after another all-nighter, hands in his pockets and a cigarette in his mouth, only to see a Rolls-Royce slowly pull up beside him.

A man in a sharp suit got out and asked, "It's the middle of the school week. Why aren't you in class?"

"...???"

Do I know you?

When the man came closer, Lin Jiachen remembered the childhood he'd had thanks to him, and shuddered. "Big Brother?!"

This really was his long-lost "biological" big brother!

Lu Jiming bundled him into the car. "Come home with me."

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Lin Jiachen had never had a father.

Then, when he was six, his mother brought home an old guy, and the old guy brought his son along.

The old guy wasn't much, but his son was pretty great.

He cooked noodles for Lin Jiachen when his mother worked the night shift, made sure he did his homework, and kept him in line when he misbehaved. He was much more reliable than that old guy.

Later, the old guy vanished without a trace, leaving his son behind with them. Lin Jiachen's mother raised both boys.

They were poor in those years, but the family was still pretty happy.

Later on, that old guy somehow made it big. He came back and took Lin Jiachen's brother away, and they were separated for many years.

Now the old guy was dead, and his brother had become rich enough to live however he pleased. He said he would give Lin Jiachen a good life! How could anything this good be true?

■

Life after reuniting with his brother was sweet, but came with its share of pressure.

He said, "You don't have to go to school, but you must take the college entrance exam. A public first-tier university is the lowest I'll accept."

He had an undergraduate degree from a top-two university and a master's from Stanford.

He said, "I'm financially independent and don't need to work. Wherever you get into college, I'll buy a place nearby and keep you company while you study. Once you get a job, I'll buy a place near your company and keep you company there, too."

He was single and had no plans to marry or have children.

He also said, "Good boy, baby, let me see your legs..."

He was a pervert!!!

■ Reading Guide:

> One-on-one, both chaste / Eight-year age gap / Sweet romance / A day-to-day relationship-focused story centered on the two of them, with their love hidden in the details~

> A pretty younger brother who is sometimes well-behaved and sometimes gets all prickly x a financially independent older brother who is sometimes gentle and encouraging and sometimes acts like a strict, old-fashioned dad

> The older brother has cashed out from his high-ranking position and achieved financial independence. He only needs to work one hour a day. He spends the rest of his time taking care of his little brother, doing his laundry, cooking for him, and helping him with homework. They start living together as soon as they reunite!

> Also known as My Financially Independent Brother and I Lie Flat in a Second-Tier City. Not a wealthy-family story, but more of a small-city story, set in a second-tier city.

> Includes some school-related scenes. The academically gifted older brother helps his poor-performing younger brother prepare for the college entrance exam!

> The brothers are not related by blood and are not registered in the same household.

------ Upcoming novel: My Fake Brother Became a Real Daddy ------

Song Qinghe was a short-form drama actor. With the entertainment industry's downturn and AI both hitting him hard, he competed every day with a crowd of people for supporting roles paying eighty yuan a day. He was about to become unable to afford a cheap group meal.

Luckily, he woke up one morning and had transmigrated into a book.

He had transmigrated into the fake young master in a story about a real and fake young master. Because the original character kept getting himself into trouble, his adoptive parents had abandoned him to fend for himself.

The author had written in the original novel: His ending is extremely tragic!

But Song Qinghe looked at the beautiful three-bedroom apartment in front of him, the Maserati keys tossed on the sofa, and the message from his "former older brother":

[From now on, your allowance is only ten thousand a month. Do what you want.]

Song Qinghe was stunned!

So this was what "extremely tragic" meant?

He replied, "Thanks, bro. I'll reflect on my behavior!" Then he quickly packed his bags and flew to Hengdian to look for work.

Only then did he discover that in the book's version of 2012, the film industry was thriving. The air was full of the heady promise of an economic boom, and finding eighty-one days of work as an extra was so easy!

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A month later, Song Qinghe was walking back to his hotel after work when he noticed a Cullinan following him.

The car had been following him for two days, and Song Qinghe was terrified.

He ducked through streets and alleys, trying to shake the car. After finally slipping away and making it to the hotel, he saw that the car was already parked outside!

A well-dressed man stepped out of the back seat and asked, "After going through all that hardship, have you learned your lesson?"

Song Qinghe bared his teeth. "Are you crazy? Do I know you?"

The man frowned. "You still haven't learned." As he spoke, he shoved Song Qinghe into the car. "Come home with me."

■

The Zhou family had immense influence in City A, and even after three generations, showed no signs of decline. They had raised an heir who was young, promising, and ruthless.

From the moment Zhou Yuheng was born, his path in life had already been set.

He was shrewd, disciplined, and steady, and had never given the elders of the Zhou family any cause for concern.

Until he fell in love with Song Qinghe, and his life went off course.

No one knew what kind of spell Song Qinghe had cast over Zhou Yuheng. He'd been discovered as the wrongfully switched child, caused endless trouble, and ultimately been cast out and disgraced, yet Zhou Yuheng still followed him without hesitation...

They didn't understand. All they knew was that they couldn't make Zhou Yuheng back down.

> A carefree, impoverished actor bottom x a real estate mogul top who keeps falling deeper, daddy type

> Both chaste / One-on-one / HE

Theme: Discipline makes you a better person!