Hear me out. Think about an Idol SVSSS au but shen siblings angst. Like CQM is an idol management company, A huge one. Because I lwk don't think SJ would wanna be an idol he likes his privacy manh.
The angsty past happens. The whole child trafficking thing, but SY is Sj's baby sibling, like let's say a lot younger. So eventually they're retrieved as the trafficking rings are busted and then put into foster homes. And surprise surprise The qius. Sj and Yq manage to escape the Qiu foster home because they become adults first but aren't legally able to take Sy with them because they don't have a job so they tell him they'll come back for him. Even though it kills them both to leave Sy in such a horrible situation.
So they obviously work their asses off, crash courses, side jobs, shitty apartments eventually landing a small job at CQM. After which they immediately try to find the Qius only to find out that there was a fire a few years ago and everyone in the house had passed away in it.
So Timeskip and now they've been promoted to the managers/directors or certain parts of the company. Like public marketing and Finance and budgeting. They've seen a bunch of new idol groups debut under them, a whole number of cruel idol survival shows. But no group ever really made a huge mark in the industry that was always changing it's current trend of music style and sense. But then SJ hears about a new group, only debuted around 2 years ago under a no name label now suddenly rising to fame at breakneck speeds especially abroad. They heard about it recently after Huan Hua (one of the big 4) agreed to merge the small label in return for partial management over the group's label. So obviously he looks it up with not much interest, but almost everyone is talking about it these days. And it's a small group sure, with constantly switching concepts. Demons to high school aesthetic. But one the faces out of the 5 people....looked at least 1 fourths like him. (Maybe his stage name can be Yuan-Jun? IDK help me out guys) although the last name has been changed and the records wiped. Sj would always recognize the brother he saw in each dream and nightmare every single night. The reason for his bitterness towards Yue Qi, towards everyone in general.
Now he goes into a rabbit hole, watching every single thing like a crazed person. From the survival shows to final lineup then pre debut practice videos, Debut stage, music videos, interviews, reality shows, group vlogs... All up to the latest concerts, music videos.
And he did not know how to feel, he knew his brother had always had a knack for swaying people and for singing, but he knew the harshness of the idol world so well and he knew for a fact that he didn't want his brother in this industry. Let alone under Huan Hua that would probably work them to their bone. He also lwk did not like how close they all seemed with each other. But it wasn't unexpected, survival shows tended to trauma bond the idols in a group and they do spend 24/7 with each other anyways.
He needed his little brother back. He wasn't even an adult yet. If he couldn't find some way to bring him to CQ, Even if that meant the other little beasts in that group had to come with.
He refused to accept the possibility that Shen Yuan hated him or would not come with him. Or that he was happy where he was.
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