Nangong Xun had been Nangong Zhaozhao’s older brother for twenty years.
As the eldest brother, he was like a father to her. He guided and protected her, believing all his love was simply the instinctive affection of family.
Until she fell in love with someone else.
He had already made up his mind to endure the pain and let her go, but one revelation shattered every last bit of his self-control: they weren’t actually brother and sister.
Feelings repressed for twenty years surged wildly overnight. On the night of her happiest confession, he destroyed everything with his own hands:
“Zhaozhao, he’s not the right man for you.”
“I am.”
He was the proudest son of the Nangong family, yet he was willing to fall into the dust for her. Even if it meant being condemned, he would keep her in his arms.
Once, their family ties were a shackle. Now the truth was a weapon. All he had left to offer her was coercion and possession.
But when every disguise was torn away, she realized that the man she had called her brother for twenty years had never wanted to be only her brother.
