What? The Real and Fake Heiresses Dated!

A major scandal has recently rocked the wealthy Ruan family: their precious, pampered daughter, Ruan Zaiyun, turns out to be a fake, while the real heiress, Ji Xianxue, spent eighteen years suffering in the slums.

Word is, the real heiress is incredibly impressive. Before she was even an adult, she worked part-time while studying to help her family pay off its debts. And despite all that, she never let her studies slip. She just scored the highest marks in Province A's entrance exams, and she's beautiful too. She's practically perfect.

By contrast, Ruan Zaiyun was spoiled rotten by the Ruan family. Arrogant, stupid, and nasty, she even used her family's influence to bully Ji Xianxue at school.

Everyone thinks Ruan Zaiyun is in for a terrible time.

Even if the Ruan family is willing to keep her, Ji Xianxue will surely make her pay with her own hands.

Ruan Zaiyun wants to cry.

She's genuinely afraid of being punished, because... a week ago, she was the one who dumped Ji Xianxue.

Remembering Ji Xianxue's blood-red eyes, like a demon's, on the day they broke up, Ruan Zaiyun trembles.

But when Ji Xianxue returns to the Ruan family, the terrible scene Ruan Zaiyun expected never comes. Ji Xianxue simply gives her a polite nod. "It's been a long time, little sister Zaiyun."

After that, though they live under the same roof, Ji Xianxue remains as calm as still water.

Ruan Zaiyun breathes a sigh of relief, thinking they might just continue to get along peacefully.

Until she goes out with friends to celebrate her birthday. While she's tipsy, one of them gives her a hug. The next second, in the darkness, she meets a pair of black eyes that have been lying in wait for a long time.

...Her body goes rigid. Suddenly, she remembers why they broke up in the first place.

Ji Xianxue even tried to control how many words she said to other people each day.

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When she was seventeen, on the day of the first snow, someone leaned close to Ji Xianxue's ear and whispered, "I want to stay with you forever and ever."

Ji Xianxue believed her.

But that person was the first to break her promise.

Ji Xianxue blames no one else. She only blames herself for failing to hide what she was.

How can a beast bare its desires so openly before the hunt?

Cold on the outside, unhinged within, highly intelligent, and pathologically possessive real heiress x pampered, naive, adorably clueless little sister

Theme: Love is restraint.