Possession

The year Chu Tong turned sixteen, her parents suddenly brought home a boy her age and told her to call him her older brother.

From then on, she had to share both money and love with him. Resentful, Chu Tong was always bossing him around, ordering him to come and go at her command.

She threw her weight around, forbidding Liang Muqing from entering her room, yet swaggering into his to put him in his place.

She was domineering, patting Liang Muqing on the face as she warned him that everything in this house, including him, belonged to her.

Perhaps because he knew what it meant to live under someone else's roof, Liang Muqing never lost his composure or took offense. He willingly let her bully him.

It wasn't until after the college entrance exams that Chu Tong realized she was the real outsider in this family.

She tried to run, but Liang Muqing suddenly burst into her room and grabbed her ankle. “Where are you running off to?”

Chu Tong flushed with anger and embarrassment. “You must be thrilled now. The whole family actually belongs to you. Turns out I was the one making a fool of myself!”

Liang Muqing wiped the tear from her eyelashes with his fingertip, his expression calm. “What are you afraid of? Didn't you say I belonged to you? Then the whole family still belongs to you.”

Chu Tong thought he was mocking her. Struggling to keep her composure, she said, “I'll leave on my own, and I'll compensate you as much as I can for what you've lost all these years. You don't need to make snide remarks.”

“Leave... and will that help?” Liang Muqing picked up the household registration book Chu Tong had just separated from the family registry. He gently kissed the page bearing her name, then said, “You and I were fated from birth to never settle our debt.”

Chu Tong eyed him warily. “So what? Do you want revenge for me taking your place all these years?”

Liang Muqing's long fingers drifted like grains of sand through the gaps between Chu Tong's fingers. Their hands entwined seamlessly. Holding her hand, he wrote the two characters for “spouse” stroke by stroke in the relationship-to-head-of-household field on the supplementary page of the household registration book. “No. I want to become your possession in another way.”

◾️The leads are not related by blood, and there will be no romantic feelings while they remain related as family.

◾️The female lead will emotionally and physically oppress and humiliate the male lead, and he enjoys it.

◾️The male lead pretends to be a good person, but he's really a bad guy.

Theme: Love is what makes a family.