Name: Adoptive Brother
Author: Wei Er

Synopsis

Shen Lizhu has a nightmare.

In the dream, Lizhu loses three fiances. Just when she finally finds the man she wants to marry, the Crown Prince steals her away.

In the warmth of the wedding bed, the Crown Prince stops in front of her.

He lifts Lizhu's veil, his phoenix eyes brimming with possessive desire.

The man is none other than Shen Heng, whom she once regarded as her own brother...

When Lizhu wakes with a start, she finds Shen Heng resting by her bed, his chin propped on his hand.

The person beside her slowly wakes and asks, "You're awake?"

She suddenly remembers: tonight, she was frightened and begged Shen Heng to soothe her to sleep!

So, is it too late to keep her distance from him now?!

A year ago, Lizhu first met Shen Heng at a horse ranch.

There wasn't a single uninjured spot on him. After asking around, she learned that he was her father's adopted son. He had angered her father by doing something wrong, so he had been sent away to the ranch as a child.

Feeling sorry for him, Lizhu brought him home and took good care of him.

She never imagined that Shen Heng was a wolf in sheep's clothing.

So Shen Lizhu did everything she could to put him off. If Shen Heng liked something, she avoided it. If he disliked something, she did it.

She earnestly hoped Shen Heng would change his mind and stop loving her.

Until one night, Shen Lizhu thought that if Shen Heng got married, perhaps he would forget about her.

But the moment she suggested that Shen Heng marry, he cornered her against the wall.

Shen Lizhu: "...I'm doomed."

Reader's guide:

1. The leads are not related by blood, and their relationship only develops romantically after their family ties are severed.

2. The setting is very loosely based on reality.

3. The male lead is gentle. There is more to the dream than meets the eye.

The cover character art is licensed from Mu Han Ge, artist Wu Hua Rourou. The license is non-exclusive.

Original blurb posted on April 9, 2021. Screenshot saved.

(Take a look at the upcoming novel next door, Has the General's Revenge Romance Happened Yet?)

Everyone on the frontier knows that General Pei has a beloved, a female doctor. Fate was cruel, and a year ago she died on the battlefield.

Since then, General Pei has killed anyone who stands in his way, be they gods or Buddhas.

He has lost all emotion and desire.

One day, he brings home a young woman with amnesia whom he found.

The young woman has bright eyes and white teeth, and resembles the military doctor.

Everyone knows she's a stand-in.

Pei Jinchao dresses the young woman to look like his beloved and teaches her everything his beloved knew.

But the girl is naturally slow-witted and cannot learn even a fraction of his beloved's ways. So when she asks to leave, he coldly cuts down the traitor's head and says, "If you're leaving, then get far away."

Yet after she leaves, he is the one anxiously searching for news of where Qiao Qiao has gone.

But Qiao Qiao seems to have vanished from the face of the earth, leaving no trace.

A year later, Pei Jinchao is summoned back to the capital.

A delicate young woman stands beside the Emperor. She looks at him calmly, her expression unfamiliar.

It turns out his Qiao Qiao is a princess of noble birth.

Qu Zhiyi is kidnapped by rebels and taken to the frontier, where someone rescues her.

But she accidentally hits her head and loses her memory.

All she remembers is that her savior rode a white horse.

Not long after meeting Pei Jinchao, she decides he must be her savior.

So she puts up with his bad temper and obediently repays his kindness.

Later, when Qu Zhiyi regains her memory, she discovers that Pei Jinchao was never her savior.

And then she quits.