Gazing at the Spring Terrace

[Honest older sister x unhinged younger brother]

Ji Xun had always looked down on Jiang Yunwei. In his eyes, she was timid, cowardly, stupid, and spineless.

His kind-hearted mother bought six-year-old Jiang Yunwei from a child trafficker when Ji Xun was four, and treated her as her own daughter.

To comfort his mother, he had no choice but to call her "big sister," against his will.

Two years after his mother died of illness, he went to the capital to sit the imperial examinations. He came top, rose steadily through the ranks, and eventually held power over the entire court.

The higher his rank, the more sinister his disposition became. He made enemies throughout the court and ultimately met a grisly end, sentenced to death by execution after autumn.

Two days before his execution, a prison guard teased him. "You're a lucky man. You have such a good sister. She went to the emperor to plead for you, and they beat her until she was barely alive. What a touching bond between siblings."

Ji Xun froze.

He thought of the sister he'd long forgotten.

That woman he had considered stupid and cowardly had come all the way to the capital alone to find him. She had even risked her life to petition the emperor and beg for his pardon.

She really was stupid and foolish.

Ji Xun lowered his eyes and thought to himself.

In the end, he still died.

Reborn, he returned to the funeral of his mother, five years earlier.

Jiang Yunwei wore mourning clothes, tears welling in her eyes as she knelt before their mother's coffin. "Mother, don't worry. I'll do my best to be a good big sister and take care of A Xun."

Ji Xun glanced sideways at her. His heart softened for once, and he decided to be a little kinder to that poor, foolish woman in this life.

Later, a matchmaker arranged a marriage for Jiang Yunwei.

She stood beneath the lamplight, her face flushed. "A Xun, your big sister is getting married. I won't be able to look after you anymore."

On the day of the wedding, the bride mysteriously vanished.

In a secret room, Ji Xun held the trembling woman captive in his arms and gripped her chin. "Didn't you say you'd take care of me for the rest of my life, big sister? Are you going back on your word now?"

Gentle, kind big sister x refined scoundrel with a wicked heart

★ The leads are not related by blood and have no shared household registration.

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When Yan Shu was ten, her father died in battle, and at his funeral, the emperor took an interest in her mother and brought her into his harem.

Yan Shu followed her mother into the palace and became a princess in name only.

Life in the imperial palace was unbearable. The princes and princesses secretly called her a bastard and her mother a vixen.

Yan Shu hated the palace.

Until she met the fifth prince, Shen Qingyan, who was just as neglected as she was.

Everyone else avoided him because his birth mother was a disgraced, deposed consort. Only Yan Shu had never shown him the slightest disdain. She often came to talk and keep him company, brought him clothes and food, and the two siblings relied on one another as they endured the hardships of palace life together.

Shen Qingyan's mother was a disgraced consort. His father never favored him, and he spent every day enduring insults and bullying from others, living like a walking corpse.

Until one day, Yan Shu burst into his courtyard, smiled sweetly, and called him "big brother."

From that moment on, he secretly vowed to protect her.

Over the years that followed, he bided his time, schemed for power, seized control of the government, and killed his father and brothers, ultimately taking the throne.

From then on, no one could bully him again. He would lay all the world's finest treasures at his little sister's feet.

But before he could fulfill his childhood promise, Yan Shu bashfully told him she was going to marry.

Shen Qingyan calmly agreed on the surface, but inside, a storm raged.

He destroyed her engagement.

Later, Yan Shu learned the truth and refused to see him. For the first time, the two siblings were at odds.

That night, Shen Qingyan appeared in her palace, his expression unreadable. "Little sister, become my empress and stay by my side for the rest of our lives, all right?"

Faux siblings. They are not related by blood in any way.

Theme: Cherish the people around you.