The Dark Road Is Hard to Escape

Cool, refined, and secretly ruthless male lead vs. gentle, reserved, well-behaved heroine

Foster care | Reunion after years apart | Rekindled love

Blurb:

Calling him "brother" was the key that opened the door to Wen Shiyao and Fu Yunzhou's relationship.

Later, it became the taboo that drove them apart.

Fu Yunzhou had told her time and again that he hated being called her brother, and that they would never be siblings in this life.

So when she broke up with Fu Yunzhou six years ago, she bit down on her lip and deliberately struck where it hurt:

"I'm sorry. I don't love you. I only think of you as my brother."

At the time, Fu Yunzhou stood in the shadows, his features indistinct, but the pressure he exuded made her tremble.

He grabbed her shoulders so forcefully it seemed he might crush them, lifted her face so she couldn't avoid his gaze, and spoke in a voice cold as ice:

"Brother? What kind of brother am I to you?"

"The kind who can sleep with you and make you come?"

Years later, when they met again, the Fu family elders took Wen Shiyao's hand and told her to call Fu Yunzhou "brother."

She did.

Fu Yunzhou didn't answer.

Later, in front of a huge floor-to-ceiling window, Fu Yunzhou pinned her down and showed her through his actions:

There wasn't a single thing he did to her that a brother could do to his sister.

Theme: Loving someone is both generous and selfish.