The Little Crab Is Definitely Not a Scallop

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Also known as Whispering Only to You

Rekindled romance · Both virgins · Semi-alternate setting · Brother and sister

Sunny little sister x sharp-tongued, stubborn older brother

Tragic romance novelist x game planner

Synopsis

Xie Yu first met Chen Jinrang during the summer before her senior year of high school.

Her mother told her that a distant cousin was coming to spend the summer at Little Fish House.

Xie Yu watched as her mother did a thorough cleaning, scrubbing the spare room from top to bottom just to welcome this distant relative they were barely related to.

Xie Yu's first thought when she saw Chen Jinrang was

Where did this young master come from?

But when she actually saw him, Xie Yu couldn't say a word.

Chen Jinrang was wild by nature. That year, he'd dyed his hair blond and even gotten an ear cartilage piercing to look cool.

Seeing that she wouldn't speak, Chen Jinrang decided to tease her.

He grinned and leaned closer. "Where are your manners? Call me big brother."

The blue sapphire glinted just like her heart, pounding fiercely at that moment.

Impossible to miss.

Xie Yu loved writing and had always wanted to become an author.

She wanted to use her boundless imagination to create all kinds of stories.

But at Little Fish House, nobody understood it.

Later, someone took Xie Yu's notebook, and the relentless mockery was unbearable. It was the saddest moment of her life.

Just when she felt most hopeless, Chen Jinrang appeared.

After scolding the group, he looked at Xie Yu. "You're such an idiot. Where's that fighting spirit you always have when you argue with me? Why have you gone mute now?"

Xie Yu felt hurt and moved. She started to cry.

Her tears caught Chen Jinrang off guard and fell straight into his heart. He panicked.

In the last few days of summer vacation, Chen Jinrang promised Xie Yu that he'd come back to Little Fish House to celebrate with her after her college entrance exams.

Xie Yu remembered his words.

Her exams ended, her results came out, and he still didn't show up.

His number was disconnected, and every way of contacting him had gone dead.

Only then did Xie Yu realize Chen Jinrang had lied to her.

She hated liars more than anything.

Five years later, Xie Yu had become a well-known author.

With no inspiration for her new book, she decided to go to Snow City to look for some.

That's where she ran into Chen Jinrang.

Xie Yu: "..."

The two of them stood in silence, neither willing to be the first to speak.

In the end, Xie Yu couldn't hold back. Carrying five years of pent-up emotions, she slapped him across the face.

She cursed, "Liar."

To get back at Chen Jinrang, Xie Yu deliberately called him "big brother" every day.

At first, Chen Jinrang didn't react, and after a while, Xie Yu thought he'd accepted it.

Just as Xie Yu was about to stop being angry, Chen Jinrang appeared at night, eyes red, looking down at her.

"Xie Yu, who said I only want to be your brother?"

Reader's Guide:

1. The hero took a break from school, so he is an adult.

The heroine only realizes her feelings after she becomes an adult.

2. They are not related by blood.

3. At first, his feelings for her are only familial, not romantic!

4. All place names in this story are fictional.

5. The heroine takes her grandmother's surname. (I actually forgot to change her mother's surname.)

Theme: Love makes a level path through the cliffs.