I Kissed the Wrong Boyfriend, Then His Brother Claimed Me

[Materialistic, polished bad girl x cold-blooded old-money mixed-race heir]

Hoping to take things further with her boyfriend, who came from a top old-money family, Shen Zhili went to the hotel where he was staying, planning to use a few little tricks to spend a night with him.

As soon as she entered the presidential suite, she heard the faint sound of running water from the bathroom. Her heart stirred. She changed into her special outfit, turned off the bathroom light, and wrapped her arms around the tall, elegant silhouette standing straight in the darkness.

She kissed her way to his lips. For some reason, her boyfriend didn't react, so she tentatively touched her tongue to his...

Just then, someone outside flicked on the bathroom light. Her boyfriend's familiar, puzzled voice came from the other side of the door. "Big Brother, why are you showering with the light off?"

Shen Zhili: !

She immediately met a pair of ice-blue eyes full of disgust and contempt. The man in front of her wasn't her boyfriend, but his twin brother, Shang Zhuoyan. He looked even more mixed-race than his brother, and he was the man she'd deliberately tried to get close to a few months earlier, only to fail.

He'd even disparaged her as a "common nightingale," cheap and low-class.

Shen Zhili covered her swollen lips and her scantily clad body, her ears burning red.

*

They met again on a cold street in Florence. She'd waited three hours in the freezing wind for her boyfriend, only for him to tell her that an urgent meeting had come up and he couldn't make it.

She was so cold that her whole body had gone numb. Her nose was red, and she couldn't take even one step.

A car stopped in front of her, revealing Shang Zhuoyan's expressionless face. He drove her to the place where her boyfriend was supposedly at a meeting: a VIP club awash in neon and indulgence.

Her boyfriend was surrounded by young women in revealing clothes, having the time of his life.

"Shen Zhili, you really are terrible at judging people." Shang Zhuoyan forced her to watch the whole show up close, taunting her with abandon. Then his lips came down on hers, leaving her no room to escape or resist.

Amid her anger and confusion, she heard him say, "Dump him and be with me. I'll give you everything he could, and more."

But her answer was a resounding slap.

He licked his lips without getting angry, leisurely wiped the saliva from the corner of her mouth, then forcefully laced his fingers through hers. "Next time, hit me harder."

He really was crazy.

*

Shen Zhili never broke up with her boyfriend. At a grand masquerade ball, they appeared together, looking every bit like a couple, and she seemed to have secured her place as his future wife.

Today, she was supposed to get engaged to him, finally achieving the goal she'd pursued for years.

But when the engagement ceremony began, she was nowhere to be found.

When her boyfriend finally found her, she was trapped in a dark room, held in the arms of his twin brother. Her clothes were rumpled, and her lipstick was smeared.

Her boyfriend pounded on the door. Shen Zhili immediately climbed off Shang Zhuoyan and went to open it.

Shang Zhuoyan sat motionless in the darkness, but his words rooted her to the spot. "Good thing he hasn't seen you stick your tongue in my mouth. I don't mind letting him watch up close."

- A story about studying abroad, with a little investment banking

- The male lead still has touch starvation and only wants the female lead. He's a Chinese-Russian mixed-race man. (Sorry, I really can't resist Slavic men.)

Theme: Learning to love and be loved through being together.