The Young Man (Female-Dominant World)

Synopsis

Pei Huaizhen was a child Mother had taken in, a full eight years older than Yan Shuang.

The first time Yan Shuang saw him, he was sitting astride an old horse. His thin, hunched back looked even more sickly than the horse beneath him.

Yan Shuang thought he was going to die, and cried bitterly.

Yet that same frail body, after Mother died defending the country and Father was brutally killed, protected young Yan Shuang all by itself as he brought her from the northern lands back to the capital.

Whenever nightmares woke Yan Shuang in the night, she would sneak into his tent, wrap her arms around his slender waist, and softly call him “Big Brother.”

Yan Shuang loved Big Brother. After so many years together, she could no longer tell whether her feelings were familial affection or love.

She thought she treated Big Brother well, well enough to make up for the wounds he'd suffered and overcome the divide between their social positions.

But she hadn't counted on being wrong.

She still lost him.

Pei Huaizhen was away from Yan Shuang for five years. When he returned, he had taken on a new identity.

Seeing the wife-lord who once showed her smiles only to him now fuss over another man,

his heart ached as if it were roasting over a fire.

Pei Huaizhen asked himself: he had wronged no one in his life, except Yan Shuang, who had once pulled him out of the mire.

He deserved to die. He didn't deserve to be forgiven.

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A few important notes:

Very important!!! The leads are not related by blood and are not siblings. They grew up together as childhood friends. Because of their large age gap, “Big Brother” is a special form of address.

Some plot points are extremely melodramatic, including, but not limited to, amnesia and face-swapping. The male lead suffers a lot later on, followed by a redemption arc. Readers who are devoted to the male lead should beware.

A clever, fearless, forward-charging sunshine of a female lead x a cold, sharp-tongued, physically weak and insecure male lead. Both leads are sexually inexperienced; happy ending.

My take on a matriarchal society. The leads have normal biological anatomy, but the setting includes some original elements, including male pregnancy.

Theme: Be a sunshine who never gives up and always charges forward