Falling for My Stepbrother

Rong Shang once thought marrying her childhood friend, Cheng Li, was the best choice.

She never imagined Cheng Li would marry someone else as his favored concubine for the sake of his future, then make her drink a bowl of poison.

In this life, the first thing she does after waking is break off her engagement to Cheng Li.

But she never expected her mother, who had married far away in the capital, to worry about her so much that she would ask her stepson to stand up for Rong Shang.

In her previous life, Rong Shang had never met this stepbrother, who would later wield immense power in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Yet he avenged her.

Now that she has finally met him, he's far too cold and fierce...

When his father's beloved second wife asks him to go to Jiangnan and meet her daughter, Gu Shuo remembers that he has a so-called younger sister living far away in Jiangnan.

He never understood how a hard man like his father could fall for a beauty, but the moment he meets Rong Shang, he understands...

She follows him back to the capital.

His father, trying to curry favor with his second wife, arranges all sorts of promising young men for his stepsister.

What? Is he not good enough?

The next modern-day story continues with Changing Hands:

The canary loses to the white moonlight, but at least she loses with dignity.

She passes from Li Yan's hands into Song Yu's...

But later, she decides she wants to live once, on her own terms.

She doesn't really want either of the men anymore.

Theme: Be self-reliant and take control of your own life