How Dare I Face You Again?

Fake siblings + foster care + she pursues him in the beginning + he chases his wife to win her back later

Chen Chu had depended on the older brother who had been fostered in her home for as long as she could remember.

Then, when she was ten, his birth parents took him away. She moved overseas with her own parents soon afterward, and the two lost touch.

An accident during that time left Pei Qiqiao with severe hearing loss. He became taciturn, stopped smiling, and kept everyone at a distance.

Years later, Chen Chu returned to China and searched desperately for Pei Qiqiao.

When she finally found him, all she met was the boy's unfamiliar, icy gaze and a door slammed in her face without a word.

Later, the girl used all her strength to stop him and held out a note.

"Mom and Dad are too busy. There's nobody at home to look after me. I'm so hungry, Ge."

With that one note and two tears, she won his meager meals and another chance to cling to his side.

That year, Pei Qiqiao had only five yuan a day to live on, but he never let Chen Chu go hungry.

He gave her everything he had, but it still wasn't enough.

In the year she graduated, Chen Chu wanted to date him and marry him. Pei Qiqiao turned her down.

She'd be better off with anyone but him.

For the first time, Chen Chu lost her temper with him.

Time flew by. In the blink of an eye, the impoverished boy had become a man of wealth and status.

He was still cold, and coldly sent away several potential marriage matches for her.

"This one isn't good enough, and that one's not quite right either. Keep looking."

He used to think she'd be better off with anyone but him. Now, if it wasn't him, he couldn't trust anyone else with her, and he couldn't bear it either.

So he might as well take her back.

By then, his hearing had fully recovered, but Chen Chu still spoke a little louder to him out of habit.

A friend teased him, "She's polite to everyone else, but she only gets snippy with you."

Pei Qiqiao indulged her, with a hint of pride in his voice. "Plenty of people would put up with her temper, but she only shows it to me. Good thing it's only me."

"You reached out and pulled me from the darkness. So I'll spend my whole life protecting you, no matter what it takes."

Fighting is good, fighting is great, but after the fight, you still have to go home and sleep together.

The princess will never fall into ruin. The boy will rise to greatness.

Sunshine girl x madman

Theme: Growing up resilient through youth