Winning Over the Disabled, Frail Female Lead

Jiang Yu's legs are paralyzed, and she is frail and sickly. When she was little, she and her older brother depended on each other. Though he was only a child himself, he carried her everywhere, protected her with his small fists, and doted on her. He wouldn't let anyone call her crippled.

Later, bandits captured them. Her worthless father chose to save Bai Luoshui, the daughter of his beloved, instead. Jiang Yu's brother fell from a cliff while trying to save her, and was never heard from again.

From then on, Jiang Yu's temperament changed completely. Sometimes she was irritable and brutal; other times, timid and fragile.

Everyone said she was like a madwoman, her moods impossible to predict.

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After meeting the System, Jiang Yu learned that she was the vicious supporting female character in the romance novel The Empress and the Emperor. In the original story, she was a madwoman who kept tripping up and hurting Bai Luoshui, the gentle, selfless woman destined to become empress.

In the end, the young emperor Ji Yingchuan, a cruel and sinister man who adored Bai Luoshui, would take revenge on her, ordering her flayed and dismembered before she was slowly cut to death.

Jiang Yu was unafraid. She was tired of living and would have welcomed death if it meant seeing her brother again.

But the System told Jiang Yu that her brother was still alive.

If she saved Ji Yingchuan, who was wandering far from home, and kept him alive until he won the throne, she would be able to see her brother again.

Jiang Yu hated being controlled more than anything, but she agreed for her brother's sake.

She promised only to keep Ji Yingchuan alive. So when people insulted and beat him, she could turn a blind eye.

Ji Yingchuan was no different. Though she had saved his life, he treated her with little respect and harbored resentment toward her.

Later, Ji Yingchuan took revenge on Jiang Yu. He damaged her wheelchair, knocked her into the mud, and mocked her to her face and behind her back for being crippled...

Even so, she, proud as she was, could endure it.

As long as she could find her brother, she could bear anything.

Jiang Yu thought she could keep enduring it forever.

Until one day, she learned that Ji Yingchuan was her brother.

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Ji Yingchuan had been wandering away from home since childhood. His memories from before the age of ten were blank, but he could hear other people's thoughts.

One day, a monster came to him and told him he was actually a prince. It ordered him to win the favor of a crippled girl, calling it a "conquest." If he could make her fall in love with him and willingly die for him, he could reclaim his high position.

Ji Yingchuan agreed.

During the conquest, Ji Yingchuan heard the crippled young lady longing for her brother while cursing him in her heart: [Maggot. Disgusting. Filthy.]

Meanwhile, he pretended to care for and woo her, while mocking her legs and savoring her humiliation.

"Miss, reach out. You can't walk, so I'll carry you over."

"What a pity, Miss, that you can't walk..."

Every word he said brought up her disability, cruelly and without a care.

Until one day, his memories returned.

He was the very brother in Jiang Yu's memories, the one who had loved and protected her.

The one who couldn't bear to hear anyone call her crippled...

Before he could make sense of it, he heard her thoughts as she cried:

[How could my brother call me crippled?]

They are not blood-related.

The heroine's legs will never recover.

Written on February 10, screenshot taken on May 14.

Theme: If the breeze doesn't come, I'll bloom on my own.