『Forbidden Love | Gloomy Brother | "Sister raised me, so she has to be responsible for me"』
They all say Qi Bo is his sister’s little shadow, following her from the alley entrance to the end, from dawn till dusk. Wherever Qi Yu goes, the slender and gloomy boy follows quietly, as docile as a tamed cat. Even Qi Yu herself would often smile, ruffling his hair and saying, "Our Xiao Bo is so clingy." No one sees that this seemingly docile cat is clutching a floral hair tie tightly behind his back. The pale pink band is wrapped around his finger, his knuckles white and veins slightly bulging, as if he is clutching not a hair tie, but the light of his entire world. Just as no one knows that when she sits before the mirror in the morning and he braids her hair, he intentionally loosens the tie with his fingertips, pretending to be clumsy. He smooths it and loosens it again and again, just to touch her soft hair a little longer, craving the warmth scented like soapberry. No one knows he waits every day by the windowsill of the old Qi family building, ears pricked up, distinguishing every footstep in the alley. What he waits for is never that box of freshly steamed osmanthus cakes, but the figure pushing the door open, her soft voice calling "Xiao Bo, I’m back," and the slight chill on her fingertips as she hands over the cakes. This tenderness belongs solely to him—the warmth she gave him when she held him in her arms on a cold night at the age of eight, the only light that has brightened his gloomy world for ten years. For anyone else to even covet it would be a heaven-sent transgression. We are siblings. Qi Bo lowers his gaze, his long lashes veiling the surging heat in his eyes, repeating those words in his heart like a curse carved into his blood, or a veil of self-deception. But as he chants, a strangely cloying and sour obsession spreads across his tongue, tangled in his throat, unable to be dissolved or dispelled. Yes, siblings. He softly echoes in his heart. In his ink-black eyes, the spark shown only to Qi Yu turns into a turbulent possessiveness. Precisely because they are siblings, she remains defenseless against him, gives him all her tenderness, and stays by his side, never leaving. So, her tenderness can only be given to him. It can only be his.
"Sister raised me, so she has to be responsible for me."