Midsummer Confusion

Older woman/younger man romance / love triangle

"I'm nineteen now too, big sis."

Gentle, confident older woman x seemingly sunny but actually cunning younger man

Older sister and wolfdog

Chi Xi has recently run into some trouble.

She finally gets promoted, then hears that the company is undergoing a major shake-up, with several executives leaving one after another. Just as the internal power struggles seem to be calming down, she discovers that her new boss is her ex-boyfriend, who's returned from overseas.

And her ex seems to want to rekindle their old relationship. Worse still...

Yu Jiahe has confessed to her, the sweet younger brother from her ex's family, whom she's practically watched grow up.

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Yu Jiamu has recently run into some trouble.

He finally gets the transfer he wanted to the company where his ex-girlfriend works, but she barely speaks to him outside of work. What unsettles him even more is that lately she's been in a hurry all the time, sometimes looking like she has a headache, and other times wearing a strange smile...

It's the same smile he saw only once, seven years ago, when they were dating.

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Yu Jiahe has recently run into a major problem!

For the past two years, he's been secretly praying to every god he can think of that Chi Xi won't fall for someone else, while constantly keeping an eye on her exes who might try to come back from the dead.

He finally makes it to adulthood, and his secret crush is about to become impossible to hide, when he sees Chi Xi leaving the office with his older brother.

His heart sinks to the bottom.

He hadn't thought there might be one more to worry about. His oldest brother, who went abroad for a few years and seemed likely to settle there, has come back.

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In Chi Xi's eyes, Yu Jiahe has always been a quiet, sensible, sweet younger brother.

When she broke up with Yu Jiamu, what she was most reluctant to give up, aside from her first love of three years, was Yu Jiahe.

So when Yu Jiahe cautiously asked if they could stay friends, even though she no longer wanted his brother, softhearted Chi Xi agreed immediately.

Back then, she never imagined that the sweet younger brother would become so crazy after coming of age.

Even less did she imagine that a few years later, the two of them, so different in every way, would lie together on a disheveled bed, breaths mingling as they clung tightly to each other.

"Chi Xi, let me keep loving you," Yu Jiahe says, gripping her wrist tightly as he kisses her, his voice muffled. "Please... big sis."

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Older woman/younger man romance

Nine-year age gap

Female lead is an alpha, male lead is an omega

2026.7.28

Theme: Love and peace