[Born Bad, Sweet-Acting Black-Bellied Heroine × Aloof, Chaste Hero|Both Pure + Everyone’s Darling + All-Consuming Entanglement]
[No intimacy before adulthood; no blood relation and not registered in the same household]
Song Xinci looked just like her name: refined, beautiful, and seemingly delicate. In truth, she was a thoroughly sweet-on-the-outside, black-hearted woman.
Her ex-boyfriend, a graduate student, cheated on her? She hit back with a string of moves that got him publicly reprimanded by the entire university and expelled.
The father who had cared for her all her life suddenly married into another family without a word? No matter. She would make sure to “live well” there.
On her first day in the house, faced with her stepbrother’s haughty, noble bearing and distant, indifferent gaze, she put on the act of a good girl. Inwardly, though, she was plotting to drag him off his pedestal.
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Ming He was a heaven-blessed prodigy, the very picture of elegance and integrity. From childhood on, he had been the “other people’s child” parents held up as an example, and the perfect husband of countless girls’ dreams.
He had spent his whole life meeting everyone’s expectations. His life was always orderly, and he had a childhood sweetheart from a well-matched family.
He thought he would live out his days in peace and stability, until the day Song Xinci arrived.
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“Brother, everyone will abandon me. Will you abandon me too?”
“I won’t abandon you. I’ll love and protect you forever, because you are a treasure beyond compare.”
