The Childhood Friend Next Door Is Actually a Noble Lady

Shen Yunshu was the daughter of a minor official in Yangzhou. Because her family was of ordinary standing, her engagement was cruelly called off.

From then on, all she wanted was for her family to stay together forever.

So when she saw the handsome young man who had just moved in next door, she immediately decided: they should become sworn siblings!

A fiance might leave, but a big brother wouldn't!

Until one day, her mother told her: Your maternal grandfather is the chief minister of the court.

In an instant, the small-town girl became a noble young lady from a distinguished family, and suitors crowded the Shen family's doorstep.

Shen Yunshu resolved to find the best husband in the capital and wipe away the humiliation of her broken engagement.

Who could have guessed that her sworn elder brother would nitpick every man she considered, then look at her pitifully and say:

"Yunshu, how about you take a look at me instead?"

Pei Zhan was born into a family of military officers in the capital. At fifteen, he returned to his hometown to observe mourning for his grandmother and met the little girl living next door.

Because of one offhand joke from her, he somehow ended up with a "little sister."

Bound by their siblinghood and the difference in their family backgrounds, Pei Zhan hid his feelings in secret.

Later, he placed second in the imperial examinations and entered government service. He did everything he could to help his childhood sweetheart's father rise through the ranks, so that her family could move back to the capital.

He never expected to accidentally uncover his childhood sweetheart's secret identity.

Well, well. Her whole family was nobility.

So this Hanlin Academy editor had been fretting over nothing on behalf of the powerful?

Pei Zhan, who was always calm and self-controlled, finally couldn't sit still.

Why had he listened to his parents and accepted her as his little sister all those years ago? Was it too late to go ask for her hand now?

[Little scene]

After a garden party, Pei Zhan stopped Shen Yunshu in a pavilion.

"Don't call me Big Brother anymore."

"If you still haven't chosen a husband, would you consider me?"

· A gentle, refined childhood sweetheart x a sweet, straightforward childhood friend

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· Sweet daily life, fictional setting, no need to scrutinize historical accuracy.

Theme: From childhood friends to lifelong partners