Having It Both Ways

On a rainy day, Lu Zhiyuan angrily knocked on his older brother's door.

As soon as he went in, he gritted his teeth and said he suspected his girlfriend was cheating on him. He had come to beg his brother to help him find the bastard.

Lu Zhisheng looked like he had just showered. His hair was still wet as he sat lazily on the sofa. After listening, he folded his hands over his lap and said nothing, exuding an air of noble detachment.

Then he agreed in a calm voice.

"When my younger brother is in trouble, of course I have to help."

Just then, a noise came from the bathroom.

Lu Zhiyao froze, then looked knowingly toward his brother.

"Is your wife in there?"

Lu Zhisheng neither confirmed nor denied it. But reading his expression, Lu Zhiyao was certain that the person inside must be the eldest daughter of the Xu family, the one his big brother was about to marry into. It wouldn't be right to disturb them, so he said he would leave.

Lu Zhiyao had always been a little afraid of his older brother.

After he left, Lu Zhisheng opened the bathroom door.

In the bathtub, the girl languidly lowered her eyelids, seemingly utterly exhausted. Her black hair spilled over the edge, and the shoulder exposed to the air was as white as lotus root, her collarbone clearly defined.

"Did he leave?"

Lu Zhisheng gave a quiet reply, walked over, and bent down to touch her face.

"I'll carry you to bed."

Xu Xiangyi put out her arms, but as he lifted her, she opened her mouth and bit his neck. In a muffled whisper, she said, "Why didn't you tell him that you're the bastard he's looking for? How are you going to help him?"

Xu Xiangyi then lifted her face to meet his calm, unruffled gaze. A teasing smile crept into her eyes. "And your actual fiancée, my dear older sister Xu Zhiyi, is still overseas at a conference right now?"

Lu Zhisheng's expression didn't change. He only lowered his head and looked at her quietly, then smiled.

"Looks like you still have the energy to stir up trouble."

He set her on the bed and untied his bathrobe.

"Then let's continue."

[As we kissed, the rings on our ring fingers, worn for other people, clinked together, proclaiming that this love was never meant to be allowed.]

1) A forbidden romance, with the leads' morals skirting the edge of the line.

2) The fiancée becomes the sister-in-law / My brother-in-law has been coveting me all along / A four-way relationship.

3) There will be plenty of male rivalry.

4) All the men are unmarried and all the women are unattached.

Theme: Work hard and strive.