Xueqing and the third-place laureate were at the age when they could discuss marriage.
That day, the spring light flickered between sun and shade. The third-place laureate excitedly took her hand and led her home.
Several times, he nervously brought up his eldest brother, reminding her that an elder brother was like a father and that they would need to show him respect and obey him in all things.
The eldest young master, Cao Shixun, was stern and abstinent, steady and composed, untouched by desire, and the very model of a nobleman. He was also the kind of man Xueqing found most boring.
The delicate, beautiful girl in her thin dress knelt and bowed, extending her slender wrist to offer tea to the man sitting upright before her.
Cao Shixun didn't even lift his eyelids. He simply stroked his prayer beads, never accepting the tea.
No one knew that the man she respectfully called her eldest brother had kept her as his mistress for her entire previous life.
1. Coercive romance, one-on-one, both leads have only been with each other.
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