The Stepsister's Chase-Back Inferno

By the time Yue Qingmiao was found and brought back, she had spent over twenty years suffering in the countryside, beaten for two decades.

When the wealthy heiress opened the door and found her, she reached out and held her, asking if it hurt. She beat Yue Qingmiao's adoptive parents, picked her up, and told her not to be afraid.

Yue Qingmiao thought, I will love her for the rest of my life.

Even though her sister buttoned her jacket to the top, wore a suit, rarely smiled, and seemed cold, restrained, and rational.

But whenever Yue Qingmiao kissed her, her eyelids would tremble. The restraint ingrained in her would always crumble beneath Yue Qingmiao's touch.

Yue Qingmiao thought she was so cute. She was going to love her dearly.

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Everyone else was afraid of Yue Ningshuang. Yue Qingmiao wasn't.

At night, Yue Qingmiao rested both hands on her shoulders and rose onto her tiptoes, trying to touch her lips.

"Sister, let's run away together. Everyone will stop us from being together."

Her sister didn't answer. She lowered her head and touched Yue Qingmiao's lips.

Later, they were caught in bed, passionately entangled in the bedroom.

Her sister continued with the arranged marriage.

The younger sister, about to be sent away, bought plane tickets and begged her to elope, kneeling on both knees: "Let's go. This family is strange, and there's no way to fix it. Let's leave... please."

She removed her sister's hands.

She said gently, "I don't love you that much."

Her sister's face turned pale. Biting her lip until it bled, she forced out a few words: "But you do love me..."

"I could also not love you at all."

"That's impossible. Then what did everything between us mean...?"

"It meant a disobedient younger sister seduced her older sister. It meant her older sister enjoyed breaking the rules of this forbidden relationship."

She even handed her the bridesmaid dress and gently coaxed her to attend as her little sister. "We can go back to the day before anything happened. You'll still be my good little girl."

Her good little sister disappeared without a trace.

The Yue family searched all over the world, digging through every place the younger sister had ever lived, but they never found her.

Later, news of her death arrived on the day of the wedding.

The Yue family's public response was: "Dead is dead. She was useless anyway."

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With everyone arranging things for her, Yue Qingmiao met a thoroughly miserable end.

She never wanted to concern herself with that family again. She decided to be a carefree background character, leave home early, and never have anything more to do with Yue Ningshuang.

Yue Ningshuang wasn't gentle, and she didn't truly love her.

She was simply cold-hearted.

Yue Qingmiao couldn't warm the heart of someone who didn't love her.

But Yue Ningshuang seemed to have gone mad.

Not only had she found Yue Qingmiao ahead of time, she wanted to be with her.

She pinned her in a dark, remote alley, gripping her hand tightly.

Her eyes were red, as if she were about to cry.

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Yue Ningshuang had a younger sister brought back from the countryside. The girl was covered in mud and had suffered terrible abuse. Yue Ningshuang washed her clean, treated her wounds, and gave her a cute nickname.

But she never expected her younger sister to cling to her because of it.

Yue Ningshuang thought it was only a little spark of life, a forbidden touch in a powerful family. She craved the thrill of stepping outside the rules that confined her, and firmly believed she didn't love Yue Qingmiao that much.

But the moment she couldn't see her, she lost her mind.

Yet by the time she found Yue Qingmiao again, Yue Qingmiao no longer loved her.

And so she went even more completely mad.

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[To be revised later]

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