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Meng Shuwan, who was lost as a child, is finally brought back to the Meng family.
To win her family's affection, she willingly lets the fake heiress, who has usurped her place, take her parents' love and her place in the wealthy family. She even gets into a car accident while protecting Mrs. Meng and temporarily loses her sight.
Even so, the Meng family still thinks she isn't good enough, while the fake heiress resents her for taking the marriage alliance that was meant to be hers.
But that alliance was originally arranged by their grandparents for Meng Shuwan before she went missing!
Meng Shuwan is so furious that her head throbs, and her already blurry vision turns pitch-black.
Just then, the man she is supposed to marry arrives.
His twin brother is Sheng Dao'an, the head of the Sheng family and the man who holds the Meng family's fate in his hands. But Sheng Dao'an is hard to approach and would never step in for her.
Win over her fiancé = get close to Sheng Dao'an = bring the Meng family to heel. Check.
At that moment, her fiancé stops right in front of her.
His usually lively voice is now steady. "Are you all right?"
Her desire for revenge overwhelms her, and she doesn't notice anything strange.
She rolls her eyes and sinks coyly into the newcomer's arms. "My head hurts so much. Big brother, stay with me a little longer~"
?
The Meng family are stunned, their jaws practically on the floor, as they stare at the man.
His expression is unreadable, like lava flowing silently beneath a volcano, calm yet dangerous.
*
While she is blind, Meng Shuwan takes turns acting considerate, pouting, and trying to seduce him.
Strangely, the man who seems to be just one step away from confessing remains unmoved, like a saint before Buddha. Fortunately, it doesn't take long for her to wear down this stubborn rock.
Using the Sheng family's influence, she turns the Meng family upside down.
Then she happily attends a banquet with her fiancé, Sheng Qiye.
Sheng Dao'an, who has never had anything to do with her, arrives late. Ignoring all the empty seats in the room, he strides in with the chill of the wind and takes the seat beside her.
She is met with everyone's nosy stares. "...What?"
That night, Meng Shuwan is tipsy and her fiancé carries her back to her room. She catches sight of someone out of the corner of her eye, but before she can get a good look, a large hand presses her head against his chest.
A casual voice comes from above her: "That's my older brother. Don't worry about him."
Sheng Qiye stands in the shadows, his hand tightening around the bowl of hangover soup.
He glares with bloodshot eyes as he watches his older brother carry Meng Shuwan away.
*
Sheng Dao'an and his younger brother are twins. He has handled plenty of trouble for him over the years.
When his younger brother's blind fiancée needs looking after and he can't reach her, he asks Sheng Dao'an, as usual, to take care of her. Afraid she might blame him, he even begs Sheng Dao'an to go in his place, pretending to be him.
Sheng Dao'an hates trouble and has no intention of getting involved with his younger brother's fiancée, so he does everything in his brother's name.
But he forgets that twins share more than similar faces and voices:
He likes the same people his younger brother likes.
[The first draft of this blurb was completed on 2023.12.15]
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Nocturnal Harbor
When Pei Du was seventeen, Xu Liuzheng was entrusted with looking after him for a year.
Don't turn bad.
That was Xu Liuzheng's only request.
Pei Du was stubborn and would never bow his head. He didn't take her words to heart.
He kept gathering his friends around him, riding his motorcycle along quiet roads late at night, and changing the girl in the back seat every day.
Everyone looked down on him, expecting him to be tossed aside like trash.
Even he was waiting for the woman's patience to run out.
Later, every time he fell, she waded through the mud and pulled him back up, again and again, without complaint.
From then on, Pei Du developed the shameful desire to draw the moon into his arms.
At the end of his seventeenth year, he shocked everyone.
The aloof Pei Du actually put on his school uniform, traded his motorcycle for a bicycle, and went from a bar regular to the boy who always sat in the front row, becoming a good student just as she wanted.
The night of the college entrance exam was his eighteenth birthday.
For once, he let himself go. In a drunken haze, he kissed her.
The next day, she cut off all contact with him.
He went from a dog raised in a home to an abandoned stray.
-
Years later, they meet again on a film project.
Xu Liuzheng arrives at the appointed time to sign a contract.
As expected, the role is snatched away from her.
After all, she has a terrible reputation in the industry and no connections. Anyone can walk all over her.
As she is leaving, someone calls after her and offers her a very generous contract.
Apparently, the investor handpicked her.
Xu Liuzheng tightens her grip on the contract.
The man's background is unfathomable, and people speak of him with great caution. Why would he help her?
When she learns he is at a business dinner, she goes to thank him.
The investor sits in the shadows, his gaze drifting over her.
His long, elegant fingers hold a cigarette. His voice is flippant and cold: "Is a thank-you all I get?"
Xu Liuzheng stands where she is, watching him flirt and laugh with his girlfriend. Through the drifting smoke, his occasional glances at her are calm and unreadable.
She restrains herself, then strides forward and snatches away his cigarette. "Don't you care about your lungs?"
The room falls silent.
Pei Du freezes for a moment. Emotions roil in his eyes, as if he is suppressing something, before settling into cold mockery. "What gives you the right to tell me what to do?"
Xu Liuzheng's dark lashes tremble as she lowers her eyes.
-
Pei Du waits.
He waits for Xu Liuzheng to regret abandoning him.
But then he hears that she has taken in someone new.
-
An old apartment building, dimly lit.
Xu Liuzheng comes home from work.
In the darkness, a click sounds, and a feeble flame flares to life.
She turns in confusion, only to be pulled into cold arms.
The person behind her presses close to her ear. His voice is eerie and distant, with an unmistakable edge of clenched teeth.
"Taking him in? Is he as obedient as I am?"
Theme: People should have a sense of morality.
In this case, the male protagonist cannot suppress his love 😏😏😏
The male protagonist, please identify yourself quickly.
It's pretty cool, but the progress is too slow.