Taking a Step Back to Move Forward: He Isn’t My Brother

She called him “brother” for sixteen years, all so that one day she could call him by his name without hiding it.

They were siblings in name and lovers in truth. In this forbidden romance, whoever fell first would lose. But they had already lost completely when they were four and seven years old.

Shen Nian said, “I waited for you for sixteen years. All that time, I was waiting for the day you would be the one to break the word ‘brother.’”

This isn’t a story of deep sibling affection. It’s a long-planned love that both of them choose.