Bo Lang x Bo Jin
The true princess: ambitious, willful, hypocritical, and coldhearted x the fake prince: rebellious, unruly, cruel, and sinister
In her previous life, Bo Lang unexpectedly discovered that the younger brother she had supported and cared for over many years was a fake. Worse, he had abandoned her for some strange woman. In a fit of rage, her already gravely ill body gave out, and she died.
Reborn at the age of twelve, she finds her fake younger brother lashing palace servants to vent his anger because his fever won't go down.
Bo Lang watches coldly as the worthless boy she has poured so much effort into remains impossible to set on the right path. If he's a fake anyway, then replacing him with someone else as her younger brother makes no difference.
Bo Jin used to be a vagrant beggar. He had no name and no home, and survived on slops and leftovers.
Sometimes, after finally begging for a somewhat clean bun, older beggars would snatch it away from him.
Just before he starves to death, someone picks him up off the street and takes him to a magnificent, lavish palace.
''From now on, you're my younger brother. No one will ever bully you again.''
The richly dressed girl reaches out and strokes his head. Her gentle voice makes it hard to resist sinking into its warmth.
Over the years he spent begging, Bo Jin saw every kind of expression people could wear. He saw straight through the hypocrisy and affectation beneath their gentle façades.
But it doesn't matter. All he wants is a place to live and enough to eat.
As time passes, status and power feed a person's ambition.
He begins to want to pull the woman he calls his elder sister into his arms and indulge himself with her as he pleases.
Even though he knows that woman is hypocritical and coldhearted, that she loves only power and status and sees him merely as a blade to help her seize authority,
he is still happy to accept it all.
A dagger without a sheath can hurt others, but it can easily hurt its wielder, too.
Bo Jin was once too foolish, but this version of him is clever enough that she has no choice but to stay on her guard.
While playing the role of a good elder sister, she remains constantly vigilant, lest he turn on her.
Then one spring night, the young man, drunk, leans against her shoulder. Between his breaths and murmurs, he lays bare every one of his weaknesses.
At last, she has forged a sheath for her blade.
[Please Read]
· Both leads are virgins. Happy ending, sweet romance.
· The leads are not related by blood, and there is a four-year age gap.
· The male lead was chosen to impersonate the female lead's fake younger brother, a prince who resembles him.
· This is a fictional setting, with plenty of original worldbuilding.
· Blurb screenshotted on February 17, 2021.
Theme: Learn to love life and care for your family.
