Mornings and Evenings by Your Pillow

Everyone said Ling Xi was lucky: born into a wealthy family, blessed with striking looks, and married to a promising husband who had earned the jinshi degree.

For three years, their loving marriage had made everyone around them envious.

Then disaster struck without warning. The Ling family fell into crisis, Ling Xi's father was thrown into prison, and the authorities confiscated their vast fortune.

As the saying goes, when a tree falls, the monkeys scatter. Even the marriage Ling Xi had always thought so perfect could not escape the fallout.

In just a few days, her usually kind mother-in-law revealed her mean and demanding nature, while the husband who had always been so considerate and devoted brought home a concubine.

Only then did Ling Xi realize that their apparent harmony had always been a sham, and that he had been harboring ulterior motives all along.

At her most desperate, her younger brother, who had spent three years in the army and had only recently returned, steadied her exhausted body and gently said, “Sister, don't be afraid. You still have me.”

Ji Xiao had neither father nor mother. When he was ten, Ling Xi's father brought him to the Ling family as the son of an old friend and adopted him as his foster son.

The Ling family was a wealthy household in Qingzhou, with many members, and from then on Ji Xiao had several brothers and sisters.

However, rumors that he was an illegitimate child made him deeply unpopular. The only one who protected him at every turn was the third Ling daughter, Ling Xi.

The young girl was gentle and graceful, innocent and kind.

Ji Xiao had been calculating since childhood. He only wanted to act sweet and obedient in front of her, to trick her into taking pity on him. Anyone who tried to expose him would disappear from Ling Xi's sight in one way or another.

And Ling Xi knew nothing about it.

Three years ago, on the day Ling Xi got married,

Ji Xiao's expression was calm as he held her red bridal veil and asked, “Can't you stay by my side, Sister?”

She only laughed at him for being too young to understand, then gazed at her groom with flushed cheeks.

At the time, no one noticed the dark shadow that fell across the young man's eyes,

a darkness powerful enough to destroy heaven and earth.

[Gentle, innocent bunny of a big sister x yandere younger brother with an actor's skill]

* Happy ending / taking by guile and force / the male lead is crazy and wicked, stopping at nothing. In front of others, he's his sister's obedient little brother; in private, he's a lunatic (the incurable kind).

The characters are extremely, extremely flawed. If you have moral standards for the male lead, please read with caution.

* The female lead is not a virgin, while the male lead is. Please avoid if this bothers you.

Theme: Where there's a will, there's a way.