My Brother Is a Possessive Maniac

A gentle but resilient, wooden-headed girl x a possessive, obsessive mixed-race guy Xu Yuexiao is like any ordinary high school girl: She ties her ponytail neatly with a black hair tie and wears glasses, the hallmark of a good student. If there's anything different about her, it's that Xu Yuexiao is… not very pretty. After transferring from the countryside to Yucheng, she speaks with an accent, her extremely nearsighted eyes are dull, and her face is covered in acne. But Xu Yuexiao's mother is beautiful. Using her looks and some underhanded tactics, she manages to move with Xu Yuexiao into the home of the wealthy Xie family in Yucheng. The wealthy businessman is Xie Yuezhou's father. From then on, the handsome older boy she'd fallen for at first sight as a child becomes her brother. Xu Yuexiao finds it hard to accept. What she finds even harder to accept is that Xie Yuezhou doesn't want them to be siblings. He wants them to be lovers. The obedient girl, still naive and insecure, is completely overwhelmed by Xie Yuezhou's almost bewitching advances. Every night at midnight, a message arrives on her phone: [Xiao Yue, come to my room.] With Xie Yuezhou coaxing her along, Xu Yuexiao falls completely into this entanglement that should never have begun. Until she realizes it's all part of Xie Yuezhou's long-planned revenge. Her obscene photos are spread all over Yucheng, and people accuse her of being just like her mother. Xu Yuexiao silently ends this absurd first love, and silently accepts that Xie Yuezhou has a new girlfriend. After the college entrance exams, she leaves Yucheng without a word. As soon as she reaches the legal age for marriage, Xu Yuexiao marries her university classmate, Lu Yu. She thinks at last she can enjoy a peaceful life of her own. Until one day, she comes home to find her husband pinned beneath a man's foot, being forced to kneel. The man is her brother, Xie Yuezhou. A Thai tattoo meaning “moon” runs along the side of his neck. With Thai blood on one side of his family, Xie Yuezhou is so handsome he seems almost aggressively alluring. Xie Yuezhou looks at Xu Yuexiao and smiles with casual, wild cruelty. “Little sister, do you want to save him?” “Here are two choices. First, divorce him.” He leans closer to Xu Yuexiao and slips a few small square packets into her hand. “Second, let's see how many we can use up tonight.” Reading guide 1. There is a twist involving the photos, which will be explained in the story. 2. Important clarification: The leads are not related by blood or legally siblings. The heroine does not have a sexual relationship with the hero while she is underage. All illegal and criminal acts in this story will be punished to the full extent of the law. 3. Neither lead is perfect. The hero is obsessive, unstable, and ruthless, and stops at nothing. The heroine has minor psychological trauma from her family of origin, and she has a character-growth arc later on. 4. This is an angsty, melodramatic story with non-consensual elements and a love-triangle showdown, among other things. Happy ending. Theme: Love means not demanding, and love means not forgetting