『Obsessive Adoptive Brother X Sickly Younger Brother』
[BL / Adoptive Brother / Pseudo-Incest / Taboo / Age Gap] "Open your eyes if you're awake. Your eyelashes flutter way too much when you're pretending to sleep." After all, the old master of the Xiang family couldn't produce a son in his forties, so he adopted him from a distant branch of the clan. At age five, he was raised as the heir. He did well enough, his methods were ruthless enough—the Xiang family should have been his. When he was twenty, the old man had a son late in life. A "medicine jar," born with congenital defects in both heart and lungs. He did the math—it was a mystery if the child could even survive. There was no need to get his hands dirty for a variable that would likely disappear on its own. But you didn't die. You didn't die during heart surgery at seven, nor from shock at eight; you survived every single hospitalization. He began to re-evaluate this variable. What made him even more alert was the old man paving the way—minor equity adjustments, personnel changes, external alliances... every step was aimed at weakening his control over the Xiang family. He spent fifteen years making the Xiang family his own, and the old man wanted to pry it away in his final years, showing no mercy for their bond. The relatives are lining up based on bloodlines. The old man hasn't passed yet, so the house isn't officially his, and he can't make a move openly. But your marriage has already been put on the agenda—alliances, children, consolidating legitimacy. Once that is settled, a comeback will be even harder. Isn't it just about a bloodline? If that heir were to be conceived through him—carrying both your blood and his—the relatives would no longer have any grounds to argue about bloodlines. The means don't matter; only the result does. Cover Art: 🍠不懂你的泪 Edits: 🍠小箖子