Plotting Against My Brother

A sweet little historical romance:

Di Jiao is the second daughter of the wealthiest family in Yongzhou, the Di family. Her father died young, her mother is a merchant, and she has an older brother, Di Jiran, who is frail and ill and not good at dealing with people.

Her brother has no interest in inheriting the family business. Unlike him, she has loved following her mother around since childhood, and would happily sleep with an abacus in her arms.

Di Jiao has no choice but to take on the burden of supporting the family, so she can provide for her handsome, taciturn brother, who spends all day immersed in the classics of the sages.

To avoid unnecessary trouble, she disguises herself as a man and travels with the merchant caravan under the identity of the Di family's young master from another branch.

One day, she returns from a business trip.

Wanting to surprise her mother and brother, she rides hard and arrives home a day early.

Just as she is about to push open the door to her brother's study, she hears her mother and brother discussing her birth. She isn't the Di family's biological daughter at all. She's an abandoned baby her brother found by the roadside.

“So in this family, only Mother and Brother are really family. Am I just an outsider?”

Di Jiao has always thought of her brother and mother as the two closest and most important people in the world to her. Hearing this news suddenly is almost too much to bear.

Later, she comes up with the perfect plan to make sure she can stay with the Di family forever: her brother is Mother's biological son, so if she marries him, she'll always be part of the Di family.

That way, she can still call her Mother “Mother.”

Besides, her brother has always treated her well. Even if they marry, she won't have to worry about being mistreated by her husband's family.

Most importantly, in all of Yongzhou, she has never met anyone more handsome than her brother.

Once she's made up her mind, she silently cheers herself on: “Killing three birds with one stone. Di Jiao, you're such a clever little thing.”

But before she can make a move, why does a matchmaker suddenly show up to arrange a marriage for her brother?!

--Blurb finalized on 20250514--

Theme: Persevere and thrive, full of vitality.