Stealing Jade

[Synopsis archived in August 2023, with screenshots and videos]

She is her stepbrother's dark secret.

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Zhou Ji holds power over the court and commands great authority. He is a mighty general feared by all under heaven.

Zhou Xuanyu has always been spoiled and willful, yet this stepbrother is the one person she fears.

He protects her and sternly teaches her right from wrong.

To her, he is both her elder brother and the sky above the Zhou family.

Until one day, drunk, she accidentally wandered into his private chamber.

The walls were covered in fine silks and gauzes, all belonging to her.

Every painting and calligraphy scroll had something to do with her.

Every word in the documents on the desk recorded the details of her daily life.

She was shocked,

and even more afraid.

After discovering her brother's secret, she avoided him every day.

Until one night, she suddenly opened her eyes and saw her brother standing by her bed. Her heart seized.

Zhou Ji lowered his long lashes. His voice was as calm as ever. "Ningning, tell your big brother, what did you see?"

It was clearly a question, yet she heard the certainty in his voice.

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Zhou Ji had been disciplined and proper since childhood. He knew he bore the weight of his family's glory and fortunes, and could not afford to make even the slightest mistake.

Yet he had those kinds of feelings for the younger sister he had raised himself.

To put an end to these feelings, which were growing increasingly uncontrollable, he wasted no time in finding his stepsister a good match and sending her off in a splendid wedding.

Zhou Ji thought he could endure it for the rest of his life.

Until three days later, when she returned to her parents' home. The newly risen court noble helped his stepsister down from her horse. In the ice and snow, her radiant little face nestled in a fur collar as she called tenderly, "My darling..."

The feelings Zhou Ji had suppressed for days became a complete joke.

Zhou Ji didn't understand how things had come to this.

It should have been him standing by her side.

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On a storm-lashed night, her stepbrother kissed her delicate cheek, stroked her slender waist, and whispered, "Ningning, your big brother wants only you."

[Reading Guide]

The leads are not related by blood. They are stepsiblings.

Angsty melodrama~

Theme: Love life, be kind to yourself, keep striving, and find happiness.