Caged Beast

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When Shen Jinzhao was twelve, someone set fire to the shabby little house she lived in. The flames could be seen from half a mile away, and the smoke nearly made her cough up a lung.

Shen Jinzhao had broken her leg. Looking like a lump of coal, she lay on the floor, waiting to die.

She wondered whether she would suffocate or burn to death first.

Who could have guessed that just as dawn broke, the door would burst open with a bang, and Xu Xixie would find her in the nearly burned-down house?

Shen Jinzhao was still barely alive then. She looked up at him.

And so she decided she would repay this debt of kindness, no matter what.

A heroine who's blinded by his good looks, has been pretending to be younger than she is without ever getting caught X a male lead who's fiercely protective, always gets revenge, and is petty

Reader's Guide:

1. Male lead's name: Xu Xixie (xia, second tone)

2. There's still a mystery.

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Years later, when they met again, the young master of the Jiang family relied on his sharp eyesight and good memory to just barely connect the seemingly well-behaved young girl before him with the little demon who had once straddled him and snipped off his carefully groomed bangs with a pair of scissors.

His mother smiled kindly, took their hands, and put them together, then casually said something earth-shattering:

"From now on, she'll be your little sister."

Jiang Qianhe looked at his mother. His stiff neck cracked twice as he nodded in agreement.

As straightforward as they come, Jiang Qianhe could talk street thugs into laying down their weapons and reforming, and he could pick up a brick to stand up for the weak. He'd somehow turned himself from an elegant young master into a chivalrous hero of the martial world.

But he never imagined he'd have a day when he'd do something so outrageous.

Ever since she was a child, Bai Jing had heard that the Bai family owed the Jiang family an enormous debt of gratitude. Before her mother died, she urged Bai Jing to repay it. After drifting along for several years, Bai Jing then heard that, actually, it was the Jiang family who owed the Bai family.

She couldn't be bothered to look into it too much. She planned to repay the debt and leave.

But ever since she got herself an older brother, life had become harder and harder.

Her new brother had something wrong with his head. His favorite thing was to play the sucker, and he was always carrying a huge black pot on his head, yet too proud to take it off.

Kindhearted Bai Jing talked him out of following what he called the righteous path, so he would stop letting people use him as a pawn every day.

But the wolf cub she'd raised turned on her. He fell out with her and said he didn't want to be siblings anymore. He wanted to date her.

Bai Jing thought right then: Has this idiot had a pot on his head for so long that his brain's filled with water?

Reader's Guide:

1. Set in the same series as "Beast in a Cage," the story of Jiang Qianhe and Bai Jing.

2. Mainly set at school.

3. Fairly lighthearted, but still has a mystery.

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