After Being Taken In by an Older, Brooding Family Head

Shi Manyun has been the young lady of the Xiang family’s little sidekick since childhood.

When Miss Xiang does something wrong, Shi Manyun gets punished. When Miss Xiang wants to date someone, Shi Manyun delivers her confession letter. When Miss Xiang dumps a man, Shi Manyun becomes the target of his revenge.

All because her parents told her that the Xiang family had been benefactors to the Shi family, and she had to spend her life repaying them.

Would she keep being Miss Xiang's sidekick forever?

Eighteen-year-old Shi Manyun whispered the question to herself.

She cried every day, washing her face with tears, and grew into a timid, useless doormat.

Until one day, Miss Xiang excitedly told her that the man she'd secretly loved since childhood was coming to visit.

Ye Yizhou, head of the Ye family, was an important figure whom Miss Xiang admired.

Shi Manyun stole a glance at him from a corner.

He was powerful and aloof, every gesture radiating authority. Everyone here was afraid of him.

Shi Manyun was afraid of him too, but she thought he could protect her.

So when Ye Yizhou looked her way, she shamelessly made a come-hither gesture at him.

She had no idea how ridiculous it looked. She was just foolishly hoping he would protect her.

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Ye Yizhou was one of the most powerful figures in the capital's elite circles. Still young, he was worth hundreds of billions and ruthless in everything he did. Yet at thirty, he was unmarried and had no children, with no scandals or rumors of romance. Compared with his rich and eventful background, his heart and body were practically blank slates.

Rumor had it that he had done too many wicked things, and Heaven had cursed him to die alone.

In truth, Ye Yizhou had simply been born with little feeling. It was hard for him to fall for anyone.

Until the day he visited the Xiang family, when a shy, delicate girl kept stealing glances at him from a corner.

He'd seen plenty of people try to seduce him, but never had he seen such a clumsy, foolish attempt.

Later, she tried to approach him several times using the same pathetic tricks. Ye Yizhou was kind enough not to hold it against her.

His tolerance only made her bolder.

The day Shi Manyun was kicked out of the Xiang household, she came to him with her little backpack, crying and begging him to take her in.

Ye Yizhou had a terrible temper when woken up. Anyone who showed up in front of him in the morning was sure to get a tongue-lashing and be thrown out. But when he saw the girl's flushed face and tears streaming down her cheeks, he couldn't bring himself to let his anger out.

He even wanted to teach everyone who had made her cry a harsh lesson.

--[A timid, foolish crybaby x an older man with a gloomy, possessive streak and abandonment issues] 2026/05/01

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