Ever since Yun Shang can remember, she has never seen her mother. Her father, the police chief, is always busy with work and has no time to look after her.
Then, when she is seven, her father brings home a boy her age and tells her, "This is your little brother now."
She looks at the boy who is supposedly her brother. His eyes are full of hostility.
Later, her father quietly tells her that the boy is the son of a deceased person. He has had a pitiful life, and her father wants to adopt him and give her some company at the same time.
Yun Shang doesn't like her new brother.
He's taciturn and withdrawn, and his face is always expressionless.
His dark eyes are like a deep pool.
His skin is so pale, it has no trace of color.
He doesn't seem alive.
She once saw him kill a chicken with her own eyes, bringing the knife down in one swift motion, his face covered in blood.
She is instinctively afraid of him,
but as his older sister, she has no choice but to depend on him.
She often wakes from nightmares, feeling that someone is watching her from behind.
[Sunny Girl x Dark and Brooding]
A twisted, gloomy boy secretly falls for the girl next door
Qiao Shen once hated his mother for giving birth to him. Because of her, he had to live under someone else's roof and endure so much hardship.
When he hears that his mother has died, he feels nothing. In fact, he even feels a little relieved.
He had planned to live alone in an orphanage, but the police chief, usually so stern and impartial, takes him home instead. Pointing to a little girl, he says, "Call her big sister."
Qiao Shen thinks it wouldn't be so bad to be the police chief's son.
So he grows up wild and undisciplined, never applying himself to his studies, and his classmates are all afraid of him. Quite a few girls still blush and tell him, "I just like guys like you."
He curls his lips and sneers to himself,
No parents, no conscience?
At the same time, he thinks of the girl at home, who excels at school, is cheerful and lively, and seems to shine from within.
Call her big sister? How could he be content with that?
1. The male lead changes for the female lead. An uplifting, positive story.
2. There is no formal adoption. He is only living with them.
3. They are a few months apart in age. They are siblings in name, but can be considered the same age.
4. Primarily set at school.
5. The male and female leads' names are taken from Du Fu's poem "To Wei Ba, a Recluse": "In life, we rarely meet, like the stars Shen and Shang, forever apart."
First published on July 25, 2021. It was blocked for a while, but has now been reposted with revised wording.
My column also has similar stories, "Looking for Protection" and "Fallen Angel."
Theme: Growing through wind and rain
