short series

Calling You Brother Until Eighteen

share time: 2025-11-21 12:30:20

When Tian Xinya was ten, her parents divorced and she was sent to live with her father's friend. The first time she met Li Shengjie, who was five years older, she grabbed the corner of his school uniform and called him 'brother'—and since then, she's been his little shadow: hiding his game console from his mom, taking the blame for his lateness, even secretly filling in the same city as his for the college entrance exam. On her 18th birthday night, she knocked on his door with a homemade chocolate cake, only to be pinned against the hallway by Li Shengjie: 'Tian Xinya, I've brought you soybean milk for three morning self-studies and picked you up from night study in the rain for four years—not to be your brother.' She froze, suddenly remembering the things a 'brother' wouldn't do—he let her use his guitar (which no one else could touch) as a pillow; he hated sweet things but remembered she loved taro balls with 30% sugar; last winter when she had a fever, he wrapped her scarf around himself and stayed in the hospital all night, his hands red from the cold still peeling oranges for her. It turned out all the preference hidden under the 'brother' title was his unspoken love. And Li Shengjie's secret? From the day ten years ago when she cried in the corner of the sofa and called him 'brother', he never wanted to be just her brother.

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