[Powerful one lowers his head, living together, older man, both each other's first and only, shared dreams, possessive love]
Sick, gloomy, obsessive man who knows how to act like a big brother × sweet, soft younger girl who's sweet on the outside but dark within
Wen Zhili wakes up while stealing Pei Siyan's underwear.
She's the vicious cannon-fodder villainess in a wealthy-family novel, a foil to the original heroine, Gu Nianqiao.
Because of a family friendship, she's taken in by the Pei family.
She covets Pei Siyan, the golden boy: peeking at him in the shower, taking pictures of his abs, and stealing his underwear to keep.
She even forces him to wash her underwear with a cold expression.
She tries to drive a wedge between the original leads and uses every trick in the book to drug Pei Siyan, hoping to get pregnant and become a wealthy family's wife.
When her schemes are exposed, she's thrown out of the Pei residence and sent to the mountains to shovel cow manure. She accidentally falls into a pile of it and suffocates.
*
After waking up, Wen Zhili turns over a new leaf. She decides to stay away from Pei Siyan and avoid him.
But on the night she develops a flirtation with someone else,
the man, usually so restrained, proper, and dignified, grabs her by the waist and pins her against the wall.
His gaze is as dark and damp as a malevolent ghost's, and he bites her earlobe as if consumed by rage.
“Zhizhi, don't you like Big Brother?”
“Why are you sneaking around with another man behind my back?”
“Break up with him and be with me, okay?”
*
Wen Zhili enters a shared dream with Pei Siyan.
In the dream, they tangle together night after night.
The Pei Siyan in her dreams is completely unlike himself: domineering and cruel, with an extremely twisted possessiveness. He knows how to coax her, but never when to stop.
The dream isn't real, but the sensations lingering in her body when she wakes are unmistakable.
How did her perfectly nice big brother suddenly turn into a gloomy male ghost?