The second time Wen Xia met Fu Mingyuan was at the most famous space in the capital.
She had lost a bet with her best friend and was forced to get her the contact information of "the hottest man in this bar."
The man lounged against the back of his chair, showing only his tall, imposing silhouette. Amid all the glitter and indulgence, he alone seemed impossensely distinguished, utterly out of reach.
She worked up the courage to approach him. The lights were hazy, falling alluringly across his face.
She tugged at the hem of her short skirt and quietly recited a line from the guide she had just looked up. "Big brother, could you..."
He turned to look at her, seemingly in no hurry at all.
Wen Xia panicked and changed course. "Could you... drink a little less?"
Everyone burst into teasing laughter. "Mr. Fu has plenty of little sisters. Who's this one supposed to be?"
The man in the seat of honor smiled nonchalantly, actually set down his glass, and said with a roguish air, "She's my younger brother's fiancee."
*
Fu Mingyuan had met Wen Xia once before, at a family dinner between the Fu and Wen families. She was a well-behaved young woman who had won a scholarship to the Repin Academy of Fine Arts, a rising beauty and painter with a little renown in the capital, and the future sister-in-law who was about to become engaged to Fu Mingchuan.
He glanced at Wen Xia's impossibly short spaghetti-strap dress. He had thought Fu Mingchuan was the only one who played fast and loose, but she was no less daring.
Fu Mingchuan couldn't manage his schedule, so he asked his older brother to keep his fiancee company: have dinner with her, take her to exhibitions, go with her to the hospital... Fu Mingyuan agreed with an unchanged expression, but his gaze alone grew dark and deep.
A secret, forbidden desire grew wildly like weeds, gradually drowning out his reason.
He was the one by her side, so why could he only be her "boyfriend's older brother" and not her boyfriend, fiance, or even the family member listed as her emergency contact?
*
On the eve of the engagement party, Fu Mingchuan got drunk and searched everywhere for his fiancee.
In the studio just beyond the wall, Wen Xia was pressed down onto a red velvet tablecloth. Their phones vibrated in turn, disrupting her thoughts again and again.
Fu Mingyuan bent over her, his warm breath hovering by her ear, his voice bewitching.
"Want to tell him you're here with me?"
★ A sweet, obedient girl turns rebellious x a man who toys with people's hearts falls hard.
★ One-on-one romance, both leads' first relationship, happy ending.
Message: May all your wishes come true.
