[Faux Siblings, Forced Possession]
"You are not a princess."
A Heng was in the Crown Prince's palace, swinging her legs as she practiced her writing. The wet nurse who had raised her since she was little leaned close to her ear and said those words.
A Heng's eyes widened. "What did you say?"
The wet nurse looked flustered. Leaning close to A Heng's ear, she quietly told her a tale of a baby swapped at birth...
A Heng jumped up in fright.
That day, the Crown Prince returned to the Eastern Palace and realized that his usually mischievous, adorable, and utterly unruly little sister was acting strangely.
She was always clingy, but today she was especially so, pestering him again and again: "Second Brother! Second Brother! Will you always be good to me?"
She was the sister he loved and cherished most. How could he not treat her well? What silly things was she saying?
The Crown Prince sat his sister on his lap and said, "I'll always be good to you."
A Heng was reassured. As long as Second Brother treated her well, that was enough. Second Brother was the Crown Prince, praised by everyone. It was because of him that Father had not deposed Mother, despite hating her so much. With him around, what did it matter if Mother disliked her? It was enough that Second Brother loved her.
The Empress had twins in a difficult birth, but the older one, a boy, tragically died. Only the younger girl survived.
The Emperor made his daughter Princess Qinghe. He was busy with state affairs and rarely visited her. The Empress resented her daughter for making her suffer through a difficult birth and ignored her completely. The Crown Prince was only three years older than Princess Qinghe, yet he had to take on the task of caring for his sister at a young age, raising her to be spoiled, domineering, and utterly unruly.
In the Crown Prince's eyes, his sister was perfect in every way, except for one thing he couldn't understand.
Since she was always picking on the maid who served her, why not just send the girl away? Once, fed up with seeing his sister constantly upset over this maid, he planned to have the girl driven out. His sister stopped him in alarm.
Until one day, he discovered that his sister wasn't his sister. The maid was...
In the past, A Heng thought her brother was the best brother in the world.
But later, the man she had once called her brother became a nightmare she could never escape.
Reading guide:
1. Both are each other's first and only, happy ending
2. Full-on melodrama, love and hate in equal measure
3. I'll add more if I think of anything
Theme: Cherish the people around you.
