[Bold, Slow-Burn CEO Big Sister 💙 Tsundere, Unhinged Brother Who Returned from Abroad]
◆ Fake Siblings | One-Sided Love from the Male Lead | Six-Year Age Gap | Female Lead Is a Virgin, Male Lead Is Not
Everyone in their circle knew that the Jiang family's young master, Jiang Mingye, had someone he'd been secretly in love with for years, someone who never returned his feelings. He'd even chased her all the way to Britain.
They also knew that Jiang Mingye had someone he hated to the core. The two were always at each other's throats, yet blood ties forced them to stay together.
But nobody knew that those two people had always been one and the same.
1.
Jiang Wan was ruthless in business, and her career was thriving.
But her love life was a complete mess.
Her first love married her eldest sister.
Her fiance was arrested on the eve of their engagement.
The group owned by her blind date collapsed overnight, leaving him penniless.
Everyone in their circle said Jiang Wan was cursed to bring her husbands to ruin.
Jiang Wan didn't care and kept looking for her next marriage-alliance prospect.
Until one day, the person behind it all pinned her against a doorway.
Jiang Mingye: Why do you always date people around me?
Jiang Wan: What's wrong with liking younger brothers?
Jiang Mingye's voice lowered: I'm your younger brother too...
Jiang Wan was shaken to her core: Jiang Mingye! Have you lost your mind?
2.
Jiang Mingye had gone mad long ago.
When Jiang Wan first arrived at the Jiang family home, he hated her for taking away what little fatherly affection he had.
She was the one who volunteered to tutor him and went to and from school with him.
She attended his parent-teacher meetings and practiced relay races with him.
She took him shopping for clothes and played video games with him.
Only later did he learn that all her kindness toward him
was nothing more than a bargaining chip to keep her place in the Jiang family.
At first, he was disgusted, devastated, and tried to escape.
But he craved that little bit of warmth,
even if she had an ulterior motive.
After that, he applied to the university she'd attended,
studied the same major, and even chose the same professor.
He lived in her old room and ate at the restaurants she loved.
Everyone thought he was trying to compete with her.
Only he knew that he simply loved her too much,
yet could only force himself to give her up this way.
But time and again, Jiang Wan chose men who were all so awful.
Rather than let someone else ruin her life,
he might as well be the one to make her happy.
A younger brother and an older sister are family, after all.
They'll never be apart, right?
3.
Jiang Wan thought Jiang Mingye was just a child throwing a tantrum, unable to tell familial affection from romantic love.
But as she watched him break down and weep, inexplicable feelings stirred inside her too.
It turned out he wasn't the only one who couldn't tell the difference between love and family.
She flew abroad to start a business, hoping to clear her head.
When they met again, Jiang Mingye was no longer the Jiang family's young master.
He was a tool born of Mrs. Jiang's affair, meant to seize the Jiang family's assets.
Jiang Mingye was covered in blood when his father drove him out, but Jiang Wan took his hand.
Jiang Wan decided to inherit the Jiang family, including Jiang Mingye.
❄️ Title inspired by Hai Zi's poem
