Name: Make It Mine
Author: Yu Yuan

Synopsis

This has been thoroughly revised. Several sections were inconsistent, so be sure to read the official version on Jinjiang.

Zhao Xuting is the only daughter of a top-tier wealthy family: restrained, aloof, and as untouchable as a flower on a high peak.

Few people know she once had a former boyfriend she loved deeply. They were forced to break up, and neither ever got over it.

Yan Zhu was separated from his older brother as a child. After many twists and turns, he was adopted by a prominent family in the capital. Behind his gentle mask, worn with practiced ease, lies a rotten heart. No one has ever been able to make a home there.

Until he met Zhao Xuting.

On their first night together, after they kissed, she called him by his brother's name.

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Yan Zhu decided to play along, disguising himself completely as his brother so he could get close to her.

He maneuvered her into mistaking him for his brother again, seeing him, and falling for him, then claimed the place at her side that had belonged to his brother.

But a lie is still a lie.

Yan Zhu was never free of fear that he might lose her. He had long since lost the ability to distinguish love from hate, and could only dread the moment her beautiful eyes turned away from him;

meanwhile, Zhao Xuting heard with her own ears that he was never her beloved first love at all.

Later...

Yan Zhu stared at Zhao Xuting's cool profile, narrowed his eyes slightly, and smiled gently, just like his brother.

"I only want you, sister-in-law."

His palm slowly caressed her knee, pushing her legs apart.

Zhao Xuting frowned and glared at him viciously.

Her gaze cut Yan Zhu to the heart, yet stirred a strange restlessness within him.

Maybe he really had gone mad.

"I want you to look at me and say you love me, say you hate me, say you can't live without me.

I want every smile and every tear of yours to belong to me alone. In every dream you have about this face, whether a nightmare or an erotic dream, I want to be the first person you think of, not my brother."

Cool and haughty, with a sharp edge x A gloomy male ghost pretending to be gentle

BG / 1v1 / HE / sister-in-law romance (she is his sister-in-law emotionally, not legally)

Reader's guide:

1. Older woman and younger puppy. She has experience, he doesn't.

2. A mountain of melodramatic misunderstandings, coincidences, and near misses. The male lead loves only the female lead, body and soul, from beginning to end. His love and hate are so intense he'd die for her. Includes a sister-in-law and brothers love triangle, but at heart it's a sweet-and-angsty 1v1 push and pull between the leads, with the real beloved first love being the older brother.

3. This isn't a case of a strong woman with an even stronger man, nor a strong woman with a weak man. Think of it as a female lead who already rules a business empire, paired with an heir from a similarly wealthy family who can support her, and whose love is so intense he'd give her his life. He's a devoted, lovesick househusband who revolves around her so much he drives his wealthy adoptive father mad.

4. A fictionalized modern urban setting. All domestic locations, institutions, and so on are made up.

Synopsis screenshot taken on 2024/11/9

Coming soon: The Lines in My Palm

*Older brother x younger sister x wolf; one roof, public and private faces, a battlefield of romantic rivalry

Gentle, dark sister-obsessed man x proud, spoiled brother-obsessed girl x possessive, crazy wolf-dog

1.

Wealthy families are often superstitious, and the Shen family especially so.

After a fortune-teller examined Shen Ming'en's marriage lines, he said, "They cannot be cut, yet they're impossible to untangle. Blood of the same root, entwined in a struggle."

2.

An enemy becomes a wife.

A stray dog becomes a house dog.

A younger sister becomes a younger brother's wife.

3.

Shen Ming'en fell in love with her own older brother.

Her brother was a moon in the sky, gentle and courteous to everyone alike. She wasn't the most special one to him, and she was destined never to be his lover.

Shen Ming'en found a poor man to serve as a substitute for her older brother, Shen Xichuan.

They looked so alike that even she, his younger sister, felt jealous.

Shen Ming'en looked at Qin Zhiwu's face, so different in temperament from her brother's, and tormented and humiliated him, ordering him around as she delighted in the deep anger and resentment in his eyes.

But what did it matter if he hated her? He still needed her money, still had to kneel before her and bow his head.

Shen Ming'en reveled in the pleasure of looking down on him, never noticing the twisted obsession and possessiveness beneath Qin Zhiwu's resentment.

Nor did she notice the familiar, gentle, moonlike eyes outside the car window when she was fooling around with Qin in the sports car once again.

The moonlight fell, bottomless.

Qin Zhiwu pulled Shen Ming'en, who had her back to the window, into his arms. He stroked the back of her neck and mouthed to Shen Xichuan outside the window:

Mine.

4.

Shen Ming'en never thought finding a substitute would mean inviting a wolf into her home and setting herself on fire. Then a paternity test shattered the outward calm of the Shen family mansion.

Eighteen years ago, the young heiress Shen Ming'en and her substitute lover, Qin Zhiwu, had been switched at birth.

Before this real young master could take revenge on her, Shen Ming'en thought it over and decided to confess her true feelings to her fake older brother first.

To her surprise, on the night of their planned meeting, she arrived dressed to the nines, only to find Qin Zhiwu waiting for her.

"Didn't you say you couldn't bear to leave him, and spent every day wondering how you could stay with the Shen family?"

Qin Zhiwu said, one word at a time, "Marry me, and you'll still be able to sit at the same table as your brother during the New Year."

Reader's guide:

1. All male characters are sexually inexperienced.

2. 1v1 ending. Qin is the male lead.

Theme: Love is a gaze returned.