[Growing Up Together] [Socially Anxious Around Others] [Completely Smitten with His Wife] [A Mouthy Heroine Who Acts Up Only Around the Male Lead x A Male Lead with a Ghostly Vibe Who Plays the Poor Thing and Is a Career-Driven Fangirl Mom for the Heroine]
[Content Warning: The male lead is an infertile puppy. Having children, whether boys or girls, is not on the table.]
[A slow-burn, sweet romance. The male lead is devoted only to the heroine, and adopting children in the future is not on the table.]
[The male lead gets revenge later on.]
[Later on, both leads regain their memories of their past lives.]
[Only their living environments are different. The heroine's core personality is basically the same as it was in her previous life, so please consider her past and present selves to be one person.]
About their names
Cheng Xiaoxiao: At eight years old, she chose a name with few, easy-to-write characters.
Zhou Yuhang: He unfolded a map, flipped a coin, and named himself after whichever city it landed on.
Story Overview
Cheng Xiaoxiao has someone she holds dear in her heart. It has nothing to do with romance: he's the younger brother who comes to see her every winter and summer vacation.
She knows she can only hold on to this ray of light for a while, until they each start families of their own. She never expected him to call one day and tell her he'd gone rotten.
Then the very next day, a man named Zhou Yuhang shows up at her door, wearing a face exactly like her younger brother's.
Cheng Xiaoxiao thinks she'll treat him as a stand-in. But then she realizes, wait, is he the brother of someone from her past? No, it turns out he's that person himself.
Even more baffling, this man in disguise is jealous of everyone. Anyone and anything can be a romantic rival.
Jealousy Scene
"You seemed so happy talking to him. Does Xiaoxiao like him?"
"Xiaoxiao, why aren't you saying anything? Does that mean you agree?"
"You really don't love me."
Cheng Xiaoxiao: I do, I do. You can love me.
Mouthy Scene
Zhou Yuhang confesses that he is the head of a thousand-year-old family, grinning with anticipation as he waits to be praised.
Cheng Xiaoxiao: "Then how did your ancestors escape my 'once the flowers bloom, all other flowers are slain' phase?"
