"Can't you just let me go?"
"Dongdong, I can't accept that in this life I can only be your brother."
Obsessive, possessive love | Restraint in every way, until they finally give in
He saves her | Two-year age gap
A cocky, tsundere bad boy x a cool, aloof moonlight beauty
After three years of military service, Xie Xun returns as a top-tier star, still at the very top of his game, pursued by countless spotlights.
One day, paparazzi break a huge story with the headline "Xie Xun's Biggest Secret," along with a photo.
The photo shows a girl in a white ballet dress, around eleven or twelve years old, with a long neck and a light, graceful figure. She is clearly a beauty in the making.
The photo is said to have been found in Xie Xun's dropped wallet.
Everyone goes wild trying to guess who the girl is.
While reading a script on set, Shen Dongzhi sees the photo trending online and bites her red lips until they turn pale.
The girl in the photo is her.
She glances at Xie Xun beside her. He is sitting on a stool, his long legs stretched out slightly. When their eyes meet, he gives her an unconcerned smile.
Shen Dongzhi thinks of the kissing scene they filmed last night. It was supposed to be a fake kiss, but when their eyes met, Xie Xun's gaze held the restraint of someone with nowhere left to retreat, along with a streak of madness. His thin lips had really and truly pressed against hers, with a ferocity that was almost too much.
She had nearly suffocated in that kissing scene, like a fish drowning in the water.
-
That New Year's Eve, in the courtyard house with its gray-green tiles, while the elders of the family slept, Xie Xun ravaged her lips. Her sobs were soft and repressed, even her curses barely audible.
"You shameless..."
He released her slowly, admiring her swollen, bitten lips. His voice was languid, and he didn't bother to lower it, as if he wasn't afraid of waking the others.
"You're right. In front of you, I have no morals and no shame."
Compared with my desire to possess you, none of that matters.
I've been holding back for a long, long, long time.
-
Xie Xun's biggest secret is that he loves Shen Dongzhi. She was the sickly little girl who came to live at his house from the orphanage when she was six. She called him "Brother."
No one understands Shen Dongzhi better than he does.
As a child, Shen Dongzhi was weak and cried easily. When her dance teacher stretched her legs and pulled at her muscles, making her do the splits, she would cry, tears at the corners of her eyes like shattered diamonds. But as she grew older, she cried less and less, and grew more and more silent.
During her period, there was a faint, faint scent of blood about her, like the smell of plants before rain, soft and ticklish.
Starting at thirteen, she began receiving lots of love letters, enough to fill her desk drawer with scraps of paper. Every day after school, he would climb in through the window and throw them away. Sometimes he would sulk. Everyone else could write her love letters, but he couldn't.
The sadder she is, the more brightly she smiles.
She likes the scent of green apples, and she likes kittens, puppies, and pretty dresses.
She doesn't like him.
Reader's Guide:
1. The leads are cousins, but they are not on the same household register and are not related by blood. They do not date while underage, nor while their sibling relationship remains in place.
2. The female lead enters the entertainment industry for family reasons. The male lead switches from singing to acting because of her. At the end, both leads leave the industry.
3. Bittersweet romance, SC, HE.
4. This is a fictional setting with no real-life inspiration.
Blurb revised again on 2024.3.5. Please do not copy.
Theme: Gain what you ought to gain, and lose what you ought to lose
