[Fake siblings / coercive possession / barriers of status / real and fake heiress]
When Shen Zhiwei was fourteen, the Shen family found her in the mountains and brought her home.
Everyone said she was lucky.
After more than a decade in the countryside, she had finally been reunited with her family. She was not only a young lady of the household now, but also had a brother as refined and distinguished as the moon shining through a clear sky.
Her brother taught her to read and write and protected her from harm.
Shen Zhiwei was grateful and thought she would take good care of her brother in return.
She had no idea that whenever this refined Lord Shen heard her call him brother, his thoughts turned to things that should never be spoken aloud.
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Later, Shen Zhiwei finally learned the truth about her origins.
The real Miss Shen had died many years ago. Shen Zhiwei was only an impostor brought in to take her place.
Since they weren't real siblings, there was no need to keep following certain rules.
That night, spring rain fell steadily outside the window. Shen Yanci held her trapped before him, slowly brushing his thumb over the damp corner of her eye as he asked softly, "Didn't you once say you'd stay with your brother for the rest of your life?"
Shen Zhiwei trembled with fear and begged him to let her go, crying that she hadn't known what she was saying back then.
He only smiled and bent down to kiss away her tears. "It doesn't matter if you didn't know any better. Your brother will teach you, little by little."
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Shen Zhiwei did eventually escape.
She slipped out of the Shen residence under cover of night and traveled a thousand miles.
But on the day of her wedding, as her bridal sedan passed along a mountain road, someone suddenly intercepted it.
The curtain was lifted. The person she thought she would never see again stood in the storm, dressed in black, his refined features still as gentle as ever.
"Zhiwei," he called softly, as if he had only come to fetch a little sister who had wandered too far from home. "Your brother has been looking for you for a long time."
Shen Zhiwei's face turned deathly pale. She kept backing away.
He leaned into the bridal sedan and straightened her crooked phoenix crown, smiling as he asked, "You're getting married, little sister. Why didn't you ask your brother if he agreed?"
[Gentle fake heiress x scheming, unhinged elder brother]
PS:
1. Single couple, 1v1, happy ending.
2. The leads are not related by blood. The male lead is gentle but domineering. The heroine is not a strong, powerful woman. Romance-focused, mostly centered on the two leads.
3. Fictional dynasty, with some historical references, though the author isn't very knowledgeable about history.
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