I Only Crave You

[Coming next: The River Breeze Knows Summer's Heart]

When Jiang Yan was ten, she was brought into the unfamiliar Jiang family.

She saw a frail boy with delicate features lying in bed, smiling at her. His beauty left her staring, unable to remember how to breathe.

He lifted a pale, weak hand and held out a strawberry. "Want one?"

Jiang Yan nodded, and the strawberry fell into the trash.

The boy's dark eyes held a smile, but there was no warmth in it. "I'd rather throw it away than give it to you."

Jiang Yan was frightened off. Only then did she learn that this was her future older brother, Jiang Yuanbai.

She heard everyone say that the more Jiang Yuanbai hated someone, the more he smiled at her.

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Jiang Yuanbai really did hate the stepsister who had suddenly appeared in his life.

He had no choice but to keep her, so he might as well raise her like an annoying pet.

But when he was so sick he seemed close to death, she called him "big brother" again and again.

When he was celebrating his birthday alone in a foreign country, she sent him a soft, squashed cake.

When he was saddled with massive debts, she brought him the wrinkled pocket money she'd saved...

All of it made his greed for her grow wildly in his heart.

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One day.

Jiang Yuanbai, a formidable man known for his ruthless methods, spent a fortune to buy a dilapidated little town. People thought he'd lost his mind and made a money-losing deal.

Only later did they learn that this was the town where his wife had grown up. He built her a castle there, making up for all the things she'd missed out on as a child.

It was Jiang Yan's coming-of-age gift.

"I hope my princess will always be happy."

-A sweet little romance, a nurturing story, no blood relation. The male lead is six years older than the female lead!

-The male lead has no romantic feelings for her before she comes of age! He only dotes on her!

------Coming next: The River Breeze Knows Summer's Heart------

The story of Xia Yi and Jiang Feng began with a childhood friendship and ended in a bitter parting.

On a blazing summer day when they were seventeen, Jiang Feng stood behind Xia Yi, holding an ice cream that was nearly melted.

"Don't you dare come back."

Xia Yi stopped, but didn't turn around.

She graduated, went abroad, and started working. For ten whole years, Jiang Feng sat quietly in her contact list, like a dead man.

Until she returned to the country and ran into Jiang Feng at an important company dinner.

The proud, sharp-edged boy had learned to rein himself in, but he still shone just as brightly.

Xia Yi held out her hand, her tone flat. "Long time no see, old classmate."

He smiled without a word, then kept handing her glass after glass until she was dead drunk.

As he helped her into the car, her eyelids drooping, she heard him ask through clenched teeth, "You actually came back."

She knew he hated her.

The second time she saw Jiang Feng after returning home, he was sitting at her front door with his clothes in a heap, cigarette butts scattered all over the ground. He looked up at her, eyes red from holding back tears.

"...Xia Yi, why did it take you so long to come back?"

# The summer wind blows over the river. I've been waiting for you for so many years.

Theme: Love is a light that can illuminate your life.