Stealing Someone's Lover

Everyone in Yunjing City's upper circles knew that the Jin family had a pair of twins.

They looked almost exactly alike, but their temperaments were worlds apart: one was refined and proper, the other free-spirited and uninhibited.

Pu Ling happened to have a connection with both of them. The reserved one was her boyfriend, while the rakish one was her nemesis.

For certain reasons, even after half a year together, Pu Ling and her boyfriend, Jin Qingke, had never grown close. They were neither close nor distant, and their relationship was as bland as water.

They seemed more like siblings than a couple.

Then one day, Pu Ling noticed that "Jin Qingke" was looking at her strangely: intently, greedily, sometimes with infatuation and a sickeningly intense desire.

It clashed almost grotesquely with his cool, austere appearance.

It was as if she were imagining it.

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Later, as their relationship grew increasingly intimate, Pu Ling unexpectedly learned a shocking "little secret"...

To go abroad and care for his unrequited love, who was gravely ill and rejected by her parents, the eldest Jin son had gone so far as to pull a "cat-and-mouse switch" with his younger brother.

Relying on their nearly identical faces, he had tried to fool everyone.

It was as if he took his actual girlfriend for a clueless idiot he could easily deceive.

So they wanted to play a game of role reversal? Then she would play along to the end.

There had been no shortage of stories about brothers turning against each other since time immemorial.

Why turn away two willing test subjects?

Pu Ling didn't think her nemesis, Jin Xihuai, had any feelings for her, and she had never considered making their pretense real.

Only later did she realize just how terribly wrong she had been.

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They say love doesn't care who came first, but people ought to have some sense of decency.

Unfortunately, Jin Xihuai was a man with no shame to speak of.

The agreed-upon period for his "act" with his older brother was nearly over.

Jin Xihuai laid a tie over Pu Ling's eyes. Its smooth, soft fabric covered the eyes he had yearned for day and night, the eyes that haunted his dreams.

Pu Ling hooked a hand around him and pulled him down. They were like two stranded fish, short of breath, sharing air, entwined until death.

Sinking, forbidden, frenzied, topsy-turvy.

That kiss felt stolen.

#Whatever she wants to play, I'll play along#

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1. Both leads have only been with each other. Intimate acts happen after she breaks up with the older brother, but the younger brother doesn't know they've broken up.

Theme: Treat love with the respect it deserves