It’s the third year of my secret relationship with my brother’s best friend, and his adoptive younger sister has come back.
I decide to break up with him and quietly agree to the marriage my family has arranged for me.
The engagement banquet is highly private, with only our closest family and friends invited.
As we offer tea and address our elders by their new titles, my brother’s phone rings.
He answers, laughing as he teases, “You’re not even coming to Xixi’s engagement banquet? And she’s been chasing after you and calling you ‘big brother’ since she was little.”
On the other end, Shen Yu’an falls silent for a moment.
“Who did you say was getting engaged?”
