After Waking Up Beside My Fiancé's Older Brother

When Pei Yaoyin woke up, she found herself lying beside her fiancé's powerful older brother.

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I don't dare open my eyes. I hope this is just my imagination...

She adjusted her sleeping position and opened her eyes again. She hadn't seen wrong. It really was him... Aaaah!

The man's eyes were as cold as a deep pool. He gave her a dark smile. "Yaoyao, don't you want to see me?"

Only then did Pei Yaoyin learn that she'd been knocked unconscious and abducted, then presented as a wedding gift to her fiancé's clan elder brother, Xiao Liyuan, the Marquis of Jingbei.

This powerful official, who was usually so distant and indifferent toward her, didn't seem inclined to send her home to marry. Instead, he kept her locked up by his side.

In the language of romance novels, this was called forced love, or keeping a beauty hidden away in a golden house.

She... she'd been imprisoned!

Pei Yaoyin's eyes lit up. How scary, how thrilling, how... exciting!

Xiao Liyuan, the Marquis of Jingbei, was cold and merciless, with an iron-fisted approach and a reputation that could keep children quiet at night.

No one knew that he had a woman hidden deep in his heart, one he longed for so desperately that he tossed and turned at night, yet could never have. She had become engaged to his own clansman.

Then one day, someone presented her to him as a token of respect.

The young woman on the bed had snow-white skin and red lips, soft and fragrant, beautiful enough to take one's breath away.

He clenched his fist in secret. He didn't want to let her go.

So what if he took her by force? So what if he kept her hidden away in a golden house?

The woman he, Xiao Liyuan, wanted was no one's to take from him.

What he hadn't expected was that the young woman wasn't quite what he'd imagined.

She settled right into his residence, ordering servants around and enjoying herself to the fullest. She even took the initiative to please him, and to... touch him.

On the bed, Xiao Liyuan's gaze was fierce. "From now on, you'll stay by my side. Forget the people from your past."

Pei Yaoyin obediently nodded. "Mm, okay! So can I still wear silk and eat delicacies from land and sea?"

Xiao Liyuan fell silent for a moment. "Of course. Whatever treasures in this world you desire, I shall obtain them for you."

Pei Yaoyin: Wow! Yay!

When they spoke of her ex, Xiao Liyuan's eyes concealed a simmering fury. "Did he ever hold your hand? Did he ever kiss you? If he did..."

Pei Yaoyin immediately covered his mouth with hers. "Don't overthink it! I don't want to kiss him. I only want to kiss you."

Can you blame her? He was so handsome, practically made to fit her exact type, and his lips were so nice to kiss!

Xiao Liyuan tested her again and again, and realized that she truly was happy where she was. He couldn't help but start doubting himself.

Had he gone about forcing her to stay the wrong way?

"You... really don't want to go home?"

Pei Yaoyin sniffled. "Wait, you're kicking me out already?"

Who else could treat her this well if she left him?

Pei Yaoyin's inner thoughts:

If you don't really like your fiancé, but his older brother is powerful, richer than a kingdom, devastatingly handsome, a perfect gentleman, always ready to fulfill your every wish, strong and fit enough to do whatever you want, with eight-pack abs you can touch whenever you like, and most importantly, he's been secretly in love with you for years! Who could possibly say no? Who?!

[This premise took shape on 25/05/31, and I've saved a screenshot as proof.]

Theme: Love life.