The relationship between Jin Yuan and Lu Chao was like two drops of paint falling into the same pool of water. Their colors intertwined, their boundaries dissolved, and they blended into a third color in an irreversible whirlpool.
They were both willing to be swept into this weightless vortex.
It wasn't a fall. It was coming home.
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When she was twelve, her family was reassembled, and Jin Yuan followed her father to an unfamiliar island.
That was when she first met Lu Chao.
He saw her as an intruder, treating her coldly and making no secret of his dislike.
She, for her part, never once called him her older brother.
Then she was abandoned again, and with nowhere else to turn, Jin Yuan lowered her pride for the first time and called out to him, “Brother, I only have you.”
From then on, everything Lu Chao did was meant to help her escape the abyss and reach a whole new world.
But later, after he really let her go, Lu Chao couldn't bear it.
Seeing her with another man, the feelings he'd suppressed for so long erupted.
He pinned her in a corner, his breath scorching, throwing caution to the wind.
Jin Yuan turned her face away, the corners of her eyes red, yet her expression stubborn. “Didn't you say you didn't want me anymore?”
“Letting you go isn't the same as cutting ties.”
She sulked. “Then what are we now?”
Lu Chao buried his face in the crook of her shoulder and spoke slowly, his voice hoarse. “I lost my head.”
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Scheming x Pretending to be sweet
Not-quite-siblings / Rekindled love / Five-year age gap
Each other's one and only
The male and female leads are not related by blood, and nothing intimate happens while either of them is a minor.
[Original blurb dated 2025.1.11.]
Theme: Love freedom.
