My Younger Sister A Ling

[Fake Siblings / Possessive Pursuit / Groveling Ex-Husband Chase]

Hypocritical Male Lead VS Resilient Female Lead

Qi Qingyan had a beautiful younger cousin. His aunt had raised her as her own, but she wasn't her biological daughter, had never been entered into the family registry, and her origins were unclear. Her very presence sullied the Qi family's distinguished reputation.

When the new emperor ascended the throne, she returned to the capital with her adoptive parents. Her marriage prospects kept changing, and gossip followed her everywhere.

A friend of Qi Qingyan's had caught sight of his cousin by chance and taken an interest in her. He wanted to make her his concubine and asked Qi Qingyan to arrange it.

How could he let such a beauty bring trouble upon one of their own? Qi Qingyan naturally refused.

One was the future head of the family, the other an orphan living under someone else's roof. They should have met briefly and then gone their separate ways in peace.

But she didn't know what was good for her. She rejected a prince's proposal with her own lips, refusing to become a royal consort and choosing instead to be the wife of a poor scholar.

She had brought trouble upon the family. She could no longer stay.

So Qi Qingyan took the initiative and found her a husband.

Her dark hair was loosely arranged in a graceful bun, her lovely face reflected in the mirror. She smiled at everyone else, but avoided him as if he were a snake or scorpion. Whenever she saw him, she lowered her eyes and gave him a perfunctory greeting: Cousin.

Qi Qingyan had always been the darling of the heavens, but she was the one person who ignored him completely.

At a family banquet, she once again avoided him, yet chatted and laughed with another Qi family cousin. He clenched the handkerchief in his sleeve, still carrying her lingering fragrance. An inexplicable anger rose in his heart, and he could no longer keep up the airs of a brother.

At first, Qi Ling naively believed that Qi Qingyan was a good cousin.

When she was at the end of her rope, he offered his help, caring for her in every way like a truly kind cousin. He helped her break off a terrible engagement, taught her how to conduct herself, and even found her a suitable husband.

Unable to repay him, Qi Ling brought him homemade pastries one day and a handkerchief the next. Gradually, their relationship as cousins grew closer...

Then one day, the truth came to light.

She saw the cold selfishness beneath his warm, friendly exterior and realized he had never considered her family. He had only been using her, intending to give her away to someone else.

Qi Ling couldn't help being heartbroken, but life had to go on. She kept entertaining marriage proposals, hoping to marry out of the Qi family as soon as possible. She also avoided Qi Qingyan at every turn, unwilling to have anything more to do with her cousin.

But she never expected that from the day their peaceful facade was torn away,

he would take her, imprison her

After that, all she wanted was to escape from the Qi family.

1. The leads are not related by blood. Their romance begins after they stop being family.

2. The synopsis is told from different perspectives for the male and female leads.

3. An old-school, melodramatic romance with both leads sexually inexperienced.

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After a change of dynasty, the Xie family, exiled to the borderlands, was finally cleared of its crimes. Xie Yu went from a lowly convict's slave to a rising star at court.

Three years of wind and sand on the frontier had stripped away all the young man's pride and refinement. The gentle young master was gone, leaving only a cruel and brutal imperial confidant, both pitied and feared.

The first thing Xie Yu did after arriving in the capital was look for Jiang Fu.

She was the daughter of a princess of the former dynasty.

Naive and cruel, she had tempted him into making a mistake, just to add another charge against the Xie family: failing to educate their son and offending the imperial family.

But Jiang Fu was nowhere to be found.

They met again at a victory banquet.

She had changed her name and identity, and put her hair up in a married woman's bun. With her head slightly bowed, she sat beside her husband, revealing a fair profile and a few wisps of hair behind her ear. She looked the very picture of a gentle, virtuous wife.

Xie Yu tightened his grip on the jade pendant in his sleeve, lowered his eyes to hide his menace, and sent word to make her leave the banquet.

In an empty corridor, with the lights dim and the woman glancing around in panic, he said each word distinctly: “Four years ago, on the Shangsi Festival, Madam went boating with me for three days.”

“You have a red mole on your ankle and one on your chest.”

“If you don't want anyone to find out, come to my room at the third watch.”

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