[Pseudo-incest | Female-led | Male lead is inexperienced | Coercive romance | Trashy romance]
[Sickly, accident-prone younger sister x older brother with multiple personalities]
1.
Xue Shu was probably the most miserable young lady in the empire.
Both her parents were dead. She was an unwanted orphan, like a fading flower the century-old family had casually raised at the edge of its garden.
Face blindness, partial deafness, and a stutter.
Her physical impairments only made her astonishing beauty all the more striking, like a Ru ware porcelain vase covered in crackle glaze.
Elegant and fragile.
Exquisitely beautiful and delicate.
She had a face capable of making every powerful person in the imperial capital fall for her.
Fortunately, her nanny taught her to hide her sharpness and keep a low profile.
She taught her to be like a sly rabbit, revealing her beauty at the right moment and falling into the arms of a husband she liked.
Xue Shu accepted her predetermined fate: to be a tool for her family's political marriage, a flawed vase used to decorate her husband's home.
She had thought she could at least choose the home where the vase would be placed.
Until that rainy night.
A man with an unfamiliar scent held her captive in his arms.
His kisses were like clinging spring rain, falling softly on her brow, the hollow of her neck, and her shoulders...
He called her little sister.
He said he would never abandon her again.
After that night,
Xue Shu didn't even know who he was...
2.
She had a theory that was hard to believe.
The head of the family, the man she was supposed to address as her elder brother, was cold and heartless, ruthless and cruel. When they passed each other, he never gave her a second glance, as if he'd never kissed her lips.
Xue Shu thought that at certain times, her brother became gentle, violent, gloomy, and... demanding.
She liked the gentle one best.
3.
Ever since a serious illness at the age of seven, Yan Yuzhuo had been able to connect with his counterparts in parallel worlds.
He hated them.
It was as if his body were a car with the keys left in the ignition, and anyone could drive it away.
Sometimes he received meddlesome messages from these car thieves:
[The spy has been dealt with for you.]
[Oh, by the way, I put a curse on your uncle and aunt today.]
[Goddammit, you're sick with a cold. How am I supposed to eat ice cream now?! I have to spend a whole month killing corpse demons just to stay in your body for three hours, and this is how you repay me? What the, ]
[Can't even learn something this simple? You're an embarrassment to us.]
As the years passed, he gradually got used to this life. They only took over for a few days each month.
Then, at some point, things went out of control.
The first sign that something was wrong was finding women's underwear deep in his wardrobe.
Then the car thieves started arguing in code he couldn't understand in the message book.
Something was off.
They were definitely hiding something from him.
Until one day, when his body was subjected to extreme stimulation, his consciousness was forcibly awakened.
The family's most overlooked younger sister was pinned beneath him, her soft arms clinging feebly to his shoulders.
Her face was flushed with desire, her slender waist delicate. She wore an expression he had never seen before.
"..."
He gasped in shock.
The little stutterer, eyes hazy with tears, expertly pecked his chin, offered herself to him, and begged through her sobs:
"Brother... it hurts."
4.
The thing Yan Yuzhuo regretted most was choosing a fiance for her himself.
Content warnings:
1. The heroine is frail and delicate, a silly girl with a little cleverness.
2. Pseudo-incest.
3. Set in an alternate future, with many original worldbuilding details.
4. The heroine has many one-sided crushes, but only returns her brother's feelings.
5. Contains coercive romance.
Theme: Finding what was lost