Chang Geng Enters My Dreams

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Born into a powerful duke's household, Shen Mingyu dressed as a boy from childhood to protect her mother.

After an accidental fall from a horse, she dreamed that she was a character in a story.

In the story, she was the male lead Xiao Chengjun's fake younger brother. Afraid he would expose her secret, she had always let others bully and humiliate him.

Once he rose to power, he repaid every humiliation in kind, many times over.

She was caught up in it too, meeting a tragic end when she died beyond the frontier.

Shen Mingyu awoke in a cold sweat and came face-to-face with the elder brother who had been punished because of her.

The future Grand Secretary, who would one day wield great power, was now just a wretched, lowborn son. His long lashes were lowered as he curled up in a corner, like a frail, trapped beast.

After hesitating for a long while, Shen Mingyu finally reached out her little hand when she heard his muffled, restrained groan.

To change the fate she had dreamed of, Shen Mingyu tried her hardest to win her brother's favor, hoping he would show mercy to her in the future.

Unexpectedly, he still noticed something amiss.

One day, she fell into danger and hurriedly hid in a secret chamber.

The quiet room was filled with a faint, fragrant scent. The man seated above looked down at her, his dark eyes as deep as an abyss.

"Third Brother, please keep this secret..." She raised her head, her graceful figure trembling slightly, her damp eyes full of grievance.

Candlelight spilled across the room, illuminating a face of peerless beauty.

He slowly lifted his eyelids, ran a finger along the rim of his cup, and smiled.

"Little sister, why not come closer and tell me all about it?"

Shen Mingyu became ever more careful in getting close to her brother, wanting only for him to keep her secret.

When her brother rose to the top and was about to be granted a marriage, she felt it was time to bow out. "Congratulations on your marriage, Third Brother. I should get married too."

She didn't see the dark clouds gathering in her brother's eyes, or how tightly his hand clenched within his sleeve.

*

On the night of the Grand Secretary's wedding, everyone marveled.

The ruthless minister, who had never been interested in women, had gone to such lengths for the woman he loved.

In the bridal chamber of the newlyweds, just one courtyard away,

Shen Mingyu's hands trembled as she tore off her red wedding dress, preparing to climb out the window and escape.

Then she discovered that the doors and windows... wouldn't open.

The man behind her closed in step by step and seized her slender waist.

Unable to break free, Shen Mingyu begged in a trembling voice, "Brother, have you gone mad..."

Xiao Chengjun lowered his head, tightened his arm around her, and answered with a passionate kiss.

He really had gone mad, driven mad by his desire for her.

*

He walked alone through the darkness, yet had become enamored with the most brilliant dawn.

Warmhearted, sweet little sunshine x gloomy, obsessive minister

#Return to before humiliating the minister and try to defy fate

#How to win over your brother after your disguise is exposed, but he's acting stranger and stranger

Content Warnings

1v1, exclusive pairing, happy ending.

She disguises herself as a boy early on. The middle focuses on the tension between the siblings, and the later part brings bittersweet healing.

The leads are not related by blood. Their legal sibling relationship is dissolved from the start. The female lead takes her mother's surname, and only falls in love and begins a relationship after reaching adulthood.

This is not a power fantasy. The female lead is weak and soft-tempered early on, but grows and changes in the middle and later parts.

The female lead's ultimate fate is a spoiler, so it cannot be revealed, but she does not return to domestic life. She has her own career and becomes very successful.

There is no past life. The female lead dreams of the fate she was originally meant to have.

The female lead does not grovel to please the male lead. They interact like a normal family early on, and she will not kill her family just because she had a dream.

The male lead only falls for the female lead after learning she is a girl. There is no plotline where he seems to have become gay. He has a dark, crawling-around-in-the-shadows vibe early on, and goes completely mad with love later.

Neither lead is perfect. If you can't accept healing stories, please read with caution.

This is set in a completely fictional world. Readers who demand historical accuracy or strict logic should read with caution.

For more content warnings, please see the author's note in Chapter One. Thank you.

First published on 2023.4.28, latest revision on 2024.11.9

Please add the upcoming story, He Turned Dark After I Mistook Him for My Savior

#After I mistook him for my savior, he fought to claim me

#I became a romance adviser to the villainous demon king, but he fell for me

Naturally ditzy, slow-to-catch-on cutie x refined scoundrel, scheming prince

Song Yi'an lost her mother at a young age and was raised in the Anyuan Earl's household.

Her cousin was stunningly beautiful and had a throng of admirers. Even the heir to the prince's estate favored her.

After an accident, Song Yi'an was rescued by the heir. Wanting to repay him, she spent all day coming up with plans to help him win the beauty's heart and showing him concern.

Only after some time did Song Yi'an realize she had mistaken the man. Worse, on the night she learned the truth, someone set her up, and she spent a wild night with the wrong man.

The next morning, Song Yi'an awoke with a splitting headache and no strength in her body.

When she glanced to the side, she saw the cool, otherworldly young lord calmly gathering her dark hair, the corner of his eye raised as he looked at her.

Song Yi'an was struck as if by lightning and struggled to sit up.

The next moment, he caught her delicate wrist.

His eyes narrowed and he scoffed. "Now that you've finished using me, you want to run?"

Song Yi'an's face went deathly pale. She blurted out, "Young Master Cheng... I-I didn't mean to."

"What did you call me?"

He smiled lazily, rubbing her lips with his fingertip as he murmured, "You didn't call me that last night."

*

Cheng Lingwen realized that the little shadow who used to follow him everywhere had suddenly disappeared.

He waited patiently.

A month, then two... He still couldn't find her, and he could no longer hold back.

Just as he decided to return to the palace and send people out to search everywhere,

the duke's household and the Anyuan Earl's household arranged a marriage alliance and asked him to deliver gifts on behalf of his elders.

At a glance, he saw his little shadow surrounding his nephew, laughing and chatting, calling him "savior" over and over.

Cheng Lingwen's face darkened. Just how many saviors did she have?

*

Later, at her cousin's wedding, Song Yi'an saw an honored guest seated beside the heir's father.

The man wore fine silk and brocade, his gaze fixed on her.

Her aunt-by-marriage hurriedly pulled her behind her. "That's the Seventh Prince, the most favored by the Emperor and the future heir to the throne. Don't offend a person of his standing."

Song Yi'an pressed her cherry-red lips together, her legs trembling with fear.

Cheng Lingwen walked up to her.

Beneath his wide sleeves, no one could see him clasping her fingers tightly.

Then she heard his life-threatening whisper.

"Have you decided how you'll repay me for what happened last time?"

Content Warnings

1v1, exclusive pairing, happy ending.

Identity-reveal story, coercive romance, long-planned seduction.

The female lead mistakes the male lead for the man who saved her for several reasons, which are revealed in the story.

While the misunderstanding lasts, the female lead does nothing inappropriate toward the male lead.

The male lead has no relationship with the older sister and is not in love with her. He and the female lead are both inexperienced in body and heart.

By the time the events in the blurb take place, the female lead knows she mistook him for someone else.

Theme: Characters awaken and change their fate