Don't Flirt with the Senior Sister

[Cool, aloof senior sister who despises the world × younger, unhinged, devoted puppy-dog junior brother]

Everyone knew that Ting Yansi, head of the Ting family, had a terrible reputation.

An older woman who had never married, head of her own household, and kept male lovers: each of these was enough to make her the target of universal scorn.

Now she had even promoted a young husband from among her lovers, a man seven years her junior.

"I heard the maids changed the water so many times on their wedding night their hands went numb. That poor young husband. Word is she used that kind of drug. Shameless."

"The Ting family's vast business is bound to fall apart in her hands."

"That young husband is no pushover, either. His ambition is written all over his face. Just wait, he'll drain the Ting family dry sooner or later."

Before the words had even settled, the Ting family collapsed.

The male lovers scattered, and the servants, ancestral home, and businesses all went to the young husband.

Even three-year-olds laughed at her.

Ting Yansi didn't care. Life was hard enough as it was. At least she had some money left to get by. What did it matter how she lived?

But the young husband didn't seem willing to let her go so easily...

#The male lead pursues his wife through self-destruction / The female lead avoids intimacy due to trauma#

1. Both are sexually inexperienced; one-on-one pairing.

2. The author is a woman with a STEM background and poor knowledge of history. The setting is fictional, so please don't nitpick the details.

Theme: All emotional wounds can be healed by true love.