Thunderstorm

[Not-quite-siblings / five-year age gap / mutual pining]

When An Yu was seven, her mother died, and she was sent to live with the Lou family.

On her first evening there, Lou Zeyu walked in and asked the housekeeper, "Who is she?"

An Yu huddled in a corner, too afraid to answer. Lou Zeyu's mother heard them and came out to explain, then told him, "Little An Yu will be your little sister from now on."

The boy looked at her with disdain. "Who wants a little sister?"

When it rains, a bewildered little girl always wants to shelter beneath someone else's wings.

After a while, she starts to believe those wings open only for her.

When she was eighteen, Lou Zeyu got a girlfriend.

The day An Yu learned the news, rain poured down. Her hoarse sobs were muted by the thunder, and no one heard the love she'd kept buried for so long.

She used studying abroad as an excuse to leave the Lou family in a sorry state, and was gone for four years.

Four years later, she found herself trending after being accused of wearing a fake designer gown.

It seemed to be the first time she'd appeared in public as a member of Lou Zeyu's "family."

After that, whenever people asked about her relationship with Lou Zeyu, she would answer casually, "He's my brother."

She thought their relationship was settled, but time and unexpected events had never changed Lou Zeyu's feelings for her.

On a night beneath a sky full of stars, his kiss was not gentle enough. Their boundary-crossing intimacy shattered his restraint.

Her reminder to him to stop only drew one reply: "Who wants a little sister?"

*The male lead doesn't actually have a girlfriend. The blurb contains a misunderstanding.

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