The Heroine Married Her Brother [Reborn]

A passionate, sunny girl x a male lead with a split personality, both mad and gentle

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When Zhang Jingjing was four, she lost both her parents and moved into the Chi family home with her aunt, who had remarried.

She was scared the first time she saw Chi Yu. But her aunt told her to be polite in their new home and smile more at people, so she plucked up her courage and sweetly called the richly dressed but cold-faced young master on the steps "Big Brother."

He didn't answer. Maybe he didn't like her.

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At fifteen, Zhang Jingjing accidentally broke an antique vase belonging to the Chi family. That night, she was so scared she couldn't sleep. Afraid they'd throw her out, she hid in her room and cried until there were no tears left.

The next day, she learned that Chi Yu had taken responsibility for it. Chi's father had beaten him mercilessly with a belt all night, but he hadn't uttered a sound.

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When she turned nineteen, Zhang Jingjing went to visit her parents' graves. A record-breaking blizzard hit Fandu that day.

The snow piled up to 34 centimeters. Trains stopped running, and the entire city lost water and power. She and Chi Yu were trapped at the Martyrs' Cemetery for two whole days. In the end, Chi Yu carried her down the mountain, taking one step at a time.

It was then that Zhang Jingjing realized there was nothing innocent about the way Chi Yu looked at her.

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At twenty-five, Zhang Jingjing graduated from graduate school, and Chi's father arranged a blind date for her. At the engagement banquet, everyone said they were a perfect match.

But in the car crash at Xiaokun Mountain, her fiance abandoned her and fled alone from the chain-reaction pileup.

The roads were muddy, the mountainside was collapsing, and sirens blared as everyone tried desperately to escape. Only Chi Yu risked his life in the pouring rain to keep searching for her. His hands were bloody from digging, but he refused to stop.

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They say the truest love means staying together through life and death...

In her final moments, Zhang Jingjing suddenly remembered the broad back of that boy one winter. The scene at the foot of the Martyrs' Cemetery six years ago was still vivid in her mind.

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Beneath the falling snow, the boy's voice was fervent and his palm was burning hot. Zhang Jingjing leaned against his shoulder, feeling the beat of Chi Yu's heart throb in his chest.

Chi Yu's voice was hoarse. After a long silence, he finally said the whole thing: "Just think of it as me seducing you, Jingjing. If that's what you want, I can be your brother forever, or I can be your secret lover, hidden from the world."

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He couldn't have put it more plainly. If Zhang Jingjing said yes, Chi Yu would bear every consequence of their forbidden love, just as he had endured the family's punishment alone when he was fifteen.

But at the time, Zhang Jingjing was lying on the boy's back, burdened by too many worries. After a long silence, she only bit her lip softly.

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Throughout her life, Zhang Jingjing received restraint and affection from that man, but gave him only the silent wind of the past and the unmelting snow of the future.

When she opened her eyes again, she was back in the bitter winter of her eighteenth year. This time, Zhang Jingjing didn't stubbornly cling to moral conventions like she had in her previous life. In front of her aunt, risking having her legs broken, she embraced Chi Yu and faced society's condemnation with him.

[Warning]

1. The male lead is a black-sesame-filled tangyuan: sweet on the outside, dark inside, and not quite right in the head later on.

2. The leads have no blood relationship and are not legally related.

Theme: Love can break through social conventions and public opinion