So What If My Background Is Fake? My Brother Insists on Defying Convention for Me

[Forbidden Pseudo-Sibling Romance + Deliberate Seduction] (Scheming Fake Heiress × Ascetic, Untouchable Nobleman)

The night the fake heiress was exposed, she stumbled into her elder brother’s arms, covered in blood.

He was the cold, ascetic Chancellor of the realm, and her brother in name only.

He was also the untouchable nobleman she’d been longing for over three years.

“Brother, Mother wants to kill me… I’m so scared.”

The man looked down at her for a long time. “Let go of my hand.”

She didn’t. Instead, she clung to him even tighter.

Later, she ran away.

He caught her and pinned her to the bed.

“Why did you lie to your big brother, Yuanyuan? Hmm? Answer me.”

She sobbed. “Brother, I was wrong.”

He lowered his head and brushed his thumb across the corner of her eye. “People out there are no good. Come to your brother.”

Her sobs stopped. She looked up at him.

His eyes lowered, his voice soft. “Then… would Yuanyuan be willing to help her brother?”

“But Yuanyuan doesn’t know how.”

“That’s all right.” He smiled. “Your brother will teach you.”

Later still, he pinned her against the wall, his gaze terrifyingly dark. “What do you take me for?”

She tilted her face up, the corners of her eyes curving. “A puppy.”

“Doesn’t big brother like that?”

She never tried to explain herself.

She only cried more pitifully.

Tears were the cheapest thing she had.

She thought she’d been the one to seduce him first.

Until that night, when he pinned her against the desk and smiled.

“Yuanyuan, did you think I couldn’t see through your little tricks?”

She froze.

He lowered his head, lips brushing her ear.

“Keep pretending.”

“Your brother is watching.”