My Brother in the Cage

(Written in third person)

For eight years, my brother taught me how to be a substitute for his deceased younger sister.

I learned well. So well that even I was almost forgetting who was really hidden beneath this skin.

He had shaped my brows, shielded me from blades, and risked his life to gather medicine for me by leaping off a cliff.

Everyone said that He Jiashu, the powerful minister, treasured his younger sister above all else.

Until the year I came of age, when he took it upon himself to break off my engagement and said he wanted me to marry the Crown Prince.

That was when I learned that eight years of doting on me had all been so he could use me as a pawn to avenge his deceased sister.

I had given my whole heart in vain, to a game of chess.

I tried to run away in secret and sought out my former fiance,

only to find he still had the same old habit: looking at my face and calling me by the dead woman's name.

My brother caught up with me. Holding my former fiance's life in his hands, he ordered me to return.

Later, for the sake of a single sentence from his sister in a dream, my brother gave up everything.

With his great revenge almost complete, he left.

Could it be that these twelve years of my life, I, Jiang Wan, was nothing but a joke?

I refuse to accept that.

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Word had it that after my brother "died," the Empress found someone who looked just like him and made him a palace attendant, letting him come and go from the palace.

This time, Jiang Wan caught her brother and brought him back, locking him in a cage.

She stroked her brother's wrists, red from the restraints.

"My brother taught me how to be a substitute for eight years."

"Now it's my turn to teach you..."

Fake gentle, truly obsessive heroine x aloof, restrained, insecure, scheming man

A story tailored to my tastes, a sea of hatred and love, male lead is a virgin

The leads are not blood relatives, and there is no intimacy while they are still brother and sister

Synopsis screenshotted on September 3, 2026

Theme: Love healthily and nourish each other