The Dark Moonlight: My Brother Goes Crazy Every Night

[Older man + mutual pining + mild coercion + adversaries-to-lovers + childhood friends + both virgins]

[A well-behaved little fox with hidden fangs ✖️ a vicious, scheming big bad wolf]

Six-year-old Zhan Ran: Ji Lingchuan! When I grow up, you'll be the first person I kill!

Twenty-two-year-old Zhan Ran: Ji Lingchuan, do you have a crush on me?

Zhan Ran is a bankrupt heiress, scraping by with odd jobs and deals on Pinduoduo.

This winter, she crosses paths with a haughty, wealthy scoundrel who gets her arrested and plans to put her in the dock!

A few days later, at a family dinner, her sister introduces her fiancé, and it's him!

Ji Lingchuan! The man who's been tangled up with her for twenty years is now going to be her brother-in-law?!

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Memories come flooding back.

At a family gathering, two-year-old Zhan Ran bit six-year-old Ji Lingchuan until he cried.

After that, Ji Lingchuan turned bad.

The guy bought a pile of delicious snacks, then tossed Zhan Ran just one packet of spicy strips!

Ji Lingchuan was obsessed with snatching everything she had.

A gift from the cute boy who sat beside her? Snatched! The handsome class monitor's notebook of mistakes? Snatched!

Zhan Ran's girlhood was lived under Ji Lingchuan's shadow.

After the Zhan family went bankrupt twice, they moved from a villa into a shabby old apartment.

Meanwhile, Ji Lingchuan became the sort of technically-not-related big brother Zhan Ran couldn't bring herself to call that.

But Zhan Ran never saw Ji Lingchuan again. She heard he was studying abroad...

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Under a streetlamp eight years later, Ji Lingchuan stared at Zhan Ran, his gaze momentarily fixed on her as if she were someone from his past.

Then he turned around and had her arrested, planning to put her on trial too.

“If apologizing worked, what would we need judges for?”

Adversaries on the same path, mutual pining and mutual salvation, with dog-training throughout.

Not a mindless wish-fulfillment story. It has a nuanced romance and character growth.