After transmigrating into a power-struggle novel aimed at women as the short-lived, disposable younger foster brother, Lin Zhou was fated to be sunk into the river as fish food.
To stay alive, he knew his place and obeyed the woman who had taken him in: Shen Qingci, a gentle and refined CEO of a ten-billion-yuan conglomerate, and his foster sister.
He did everything expected of a subordinate and younger brother, while stamping out every improper thought.
After three years, he had repaid his debt of gratitude.
Lin Zhou submitted his resignation, returned his supplementary bank card, packed his bags, and even added the woman his mother had picked for him on WeChat. He was ready to leave and live an ordinary life.
"Qingci, thank you for taking care of me all these years. It's time for me to live my own life."
He smiled politely and kept his distance.
But Shen Qingci, who had always been gentle and composed, never once raising her voice, turned around and locked the villa's front door.
Smiling, she crushed his suitcase beneath her foot, her gaze stubborn and feverish.
"Your own life? Marrying and having children with another woman?"
"Xiao Zhou, I've spent three years teaching you the rules. But I never taught you... how to escape from me, did I?"
Meanwhile, the coldhearted and ruthless female villains and the proud, haughty fiancée from the original story all looked at his empty room, their eyes turning red...
