Sunlight Aquarium

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Summer 1998. Lin Zixi arrived at Shanghai Hongqiao with her mother, then took a two-hour drive to Suzhou.

On their first day in Suzhou, her mother told her they wouldn't be going back to Taiwan. Her father had another son on the side, not much older than her.

By all rights, they should have resented each other, or at least treated each other like strangers.

When they first met, Li Pin'en smiled at her for several seconds before softly calling her "little sister."

Not long after that, as Lin Zixi read emails in which affection was beginning to emerge, she caught the smell of fruit rotting and fermenting.

"Spoiled" usually describes something whose nature has changed for the worse.

But her relationship with Li Pin'en hadn't been good from the start, so perhaps it wouldn't hurt if it got a little worse.

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* The definition of "spoiled" is from the Great Chinese Dictionary.

* Set around the turn of the millennium / short happy ending / under 50,000 characters

* No blood relation (for the reviewers)

* Personal kink, indulging in a guilty pleasure. Does not conform to moral standards [highlighted]. Read with caution, and thank you for reading.

* [Cover art courtesy of Suisui]

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Theme: A good young person of the 21st century.