Not related by blood | Slightly coercive | Bittersweet push and pull
Refined scoundrel x sweet, tea-like innocent girl
- If siblings are destined to part, then let's be spouses instead.
When she was seven, Zhu Jin'an followed Fu Chaonian to the Fu family home.
She found herself living a life she had never dared to imagine, with a new name and the chance to attend the best school.
Fu Chaonian treated her like a beloved little sister, teaching her to read and write, making her birthday cakes by hand, and indulging her in everything.
People outside the family even said the two adopted siblings were almost too close.
During their happiest years, Zhu Jin'an was always wrapping her arms around Fu Chaonian's neck, clinging to him and demanding that she and her big brother stay together forever.
Fu Chaonian held her by the waist and smiled lazily. "But An'an will have to get a boyfriend someday."
"No, I only want you, big brother."
But she never imagined that in so many nights to come, her voice would break as she lay in Fu Chaonian's bed, asking again and again, "Have you forgiven me, big brother?"
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Though she had always said they were each other's only family, Zhu Jin'an left without looking back after finding her biological family.
Two years after they parted, Zhu Jin'an got into Jing University. Fu Chaonian attended the freshman ceremony as an outstanding alumnus.
Across the sea of people, Fu Chaonian looked at her with indifference, then turned away almost at once.
As if she were no one important.
After the ceremony, Zhu Jin'an chased him all the way to the school gates. "Big brother, I got into your university."
Fu Chaonian turned around and looked at her coldly. "Miss Zhu, you have the wrong person."
Zhu Jin'an went pale in an instant.
Her big brother must hate her.
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During the first year after Zhu Jin'an left, Fu Chaonian crossed nearly a thousand kilometers every week to visit the neighborhood where her run-down apartment building stood.
He once saw with his own eyes the middle-aged man berating the little sister he had treasured in the street.
Little sister, is this the family you chose?
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[Reader's Guide]
Six-year age gap. No blood or family relationship. The leads are never registered in the same household. Their romance begins when they are adults.
Because of their difficult childhoods, neither lead is exactly normal. She is intensely attached to her big brother, and he is intensely attached to his little sister. They are each other's whole world.
There will be rivalry among women and men, all kinds of competition, and an outrageous amount of melodrama. Read at your own risk.
Theme: Love and freedom.
