After My Overprotective Brother Slept for a Thousand Years

Chapter 0 I was hatched by my older brother. But my brother is a phoenix, and I am a pheasant. Naturally, he refused to believe it. He was convinced I was just malnourished. Taotie and Luan Bird, his two childhood friends, looked at the round, plump little thing he’d raised me into and seemed to have a lot to say, but held it in. His sworn enemy, the Three-legged Golden Crow, actually flew over mountains and rivers just to laugh at him, saying a pheasant was dreaming if it thought it could become a phoenix. That finally alarmed the elders. They felt he was disgracing the Phoenix Clan. So they had him seized and sealed away by force, then banished me to the mortal world to fend for myself. By a pheasant’s natural lifespan, I shouldn’t have lived past ten. But at the very last moment, my brother gave me his Life-bound Phoenix Core, making me immortal. After that, he slept for two thousand years, unaware that dynasties had risen and fallen outside, and that human technology had changed beyond recognition. And the first thing he did after waking up was take human form and come to the mortal world to find me. He even learned how to use a phone, go online, and make a post titled Heavy Reward for Seeking Sister. Attached was an ink-wash pheasant he had drawn by hand- [This is my younger sister. Petite and young, she can dance upon one’s palm.] A user named “Three-legged Golden Crow” commented below: [Hello, polite question: is this a Mountain Pig?] I put down my phone and looked at the blind date sitting across from me, his cheeks flushed bright red. “Hello. May I ask where the polite part was?” The man, whose eyes were practically shooting hearts at me, froze. Then he abruptly left his seat and began dancing beside the table. A courtship dance.