Can a Little Fool Be Loved by the Rich Family Too?

Wan Qiu died alone in winter, only to awaken beneath a warm quilt in a world he didn’t understand. A foreign memory told him he had stumbled into the plot of a book, one in which he was the abandoned adopted son fated for tragedy: bullied, passed from hand to hand, and ultimately destroyed by revenge.

Yet Wan Qiu — traumatized and developmentally delayed from a life locked in a tiny room — couldn’t even grasp what it meant to ‘fall into a book’ or be an ‘adopted son’. To him, being with his foster parents was already happiness: food, clothing, a bed, the chance to go to school, and a family who never hit him hard enough to scar. When his wealthy birth family finally appeared, his foster mother immediately exchanged him for money, unmoved by his tears, leaving him desperate to cling to the only home he had ever known.

But his new family, the powerful Chu clan, soon noticed the bruises Wan Qiu tried to hide. To his shock, they pulled him into their arms and vowed to give him the warmth and care he’d never known — teaching him, step by step, how to live freely, speak his mind, and trust that kindness could be real.

Meanwhile, all eyes in the Chu family fell on Chu Yigui, the adopted son who’d filled Wan Qiu’s place for years. Talented, esteemed, and outwardly confident, Chu Yigui quietly assumed he would be cast out now that the real heir had returned. But the Chus refused to let him go.

One night, Chu Yigui awoke to find Wan Qiu — supposedly his rival — curled up outside his door with medicine, gently urging him to recover before their parents get angry. Chu Yigui — who had been ready to repay the Chu family’s kindness even at the cost of enduring Wan Qiu’s hatred and torments — found something that made his heart ache, leaving him guilty and unable to meet Wan Qiu’s eyes.

After all, he had stolen half of Wan Qiu’s life. And perhaps, for that, he would be in debt to him forever…