“I came for the ‘rebellious little brother’ tag, but got healed by the warmth instead. Bai Yun acts tough, but he‘s genuinely attentive to Lan Tian. This younger wolf-pup type is so addictive.”
— Kuaikan Comics reader

“S-monkey’s art is warm and slice-of-life. The story doesn‘t have illogical angst for angst’s sake. The feelings develop gradually through daily meals and caring for animals. The tension between the younger top and older gentle bottom is perfectly balanced.”
— Comic critic

“I love the art style, and the physical books are beautifully made! Lan Tian is so gentle, and Bai Yun‘s eyes and contrast are captivating. A wonderful comic that brings healing through everyday life.”
— Vietnamese edition (Daisy Comics) reader

★ Over 1.275 billion popularity on Kuaikan Comics, 550,000 followers, 80,000 comments. Completed (Season 1, 55 chapters including extras). Vietnamese edition published up to Vol. 5.
★ Lan Tian, a veterinarian, and Bai Yun, a chef — childhood friends. The sweet, obedient little neighbor boy from memory returns years later as a sharp-tongued, rebellious youth full of attitude. Lan Tian decides to take responsibility for disciplining him. What he doesn’t know: every provocation, every test, is Bai Yun‘s way of breaking the “brother” line. “You only see me as a little brother. I never planned to see you as just an older brother.”
★ Warm, slice-of-life art. No senseless angst — feelings grow over shared meals and caring for animals. BL manga with “food + healing + domestic daily life” has a mature global readership.

Lan Tian is a veterinarian. Gentle by nature, rough in his own life, he is used to taking care of others. The softest spot in his memory belongs to the little neighbor boy from his childhood — Bai Yun — who lacked parental love and always clung to him. Back then, Bai Yun was sweet, introverted, and heartbreakingly endearing. Lan Tian gave him whatever warmth he could.
Years later, Lan Tian returns to his hometown and reunites with Bai Yun. The person standing before him is no longer that soft child. Bai Yun has grown taller, his gaze sharp, now a sharp-tongued, rebellious young man full of attitude. Lan Tian assumes this is a phase gone wrong. Out of a long-held sense of responsibility, he decides to take on the role of “disciplining” Bai Yun.
But Bai Yun does not need to be disciplined. What he needs is for Lan Tian to see him.
Bai Yun is now a professional chef. With excellent cooking and meticulous care, he makes the rough-living Lan Tian gradually dependent on him. He also uses Lan Tian‘s soft-heartedness and sense of responsibility to constantly test boundaries, deliberately making ambiguous moves to break the “brother” line. On the surface, he is the rebellious little brother who needs to be managed. In reality, he has been waiting for Lan Tian to face one thing — he stopped being a little brother a long time ago.
The story unfolds through their daily interactions. Lan Tian embraces and heals the shadows left by Bai Yun’s childhood, while Bai Yun uses his own way to pry open the shell Lan Tian habitually hides his feelings behind. This is a story about growth and mutual redemption. No one saves anyone — they walk out of the shadows of the past together.

S-monkey
Contracted author on Kuaikan Comics, a high-popularity Chinese original comic artist and illustrator specializing in contemporary urban emotional stories.
Known for delicate, warm, and lightly comedic storytelling that captures the emotional, growth, and self-identity struggles of urban young people. Natural pacing, authentic emotions, and strong reader loyalty.
Representative works include “The 30-Year-Old Man‘s Story” and “My Neighbor’s Little Brother Is Too Hard to Handle.” “The 30-Year-Old Man‘s Story” has been serialized on Kuaikan since 2019 and completed in 2024. It has nearly 300,000 followers on Weibo and other Chinese-language social platforms, and has been licensed to publishers in Taiwan and Hong Kong.