My Fake Older Brother Regrets It

Bian Runbai had known since childhood that her older brother wasn't her biological brother, but a child her parents had taken in.

Her brother was the most beautiful person she'd ever seen. He was calm and self-possessed, yet always gentle and considerate toward her.

So of course she loved him. Over time, the love that had once hoped he might return her feelings became a secret she buried deep in her heart, hidden away from the light of day.

Her brother had been reunited with his family. If not for the accident in his childhood, he would have been a young master from a powerful family in the capital and would never have known her.

Bian Runbai knew that if she continued to love him, she would be reaching above her station and making him a laughingstock.

So she hid her feelings well, until her brother's biological sister uncovered the secret and exposed it to everyone.

She would never forget the look her brother gave her that day.

Shock, disgust, disbelief.

He had only ever seen her as a sister, so her feelings seemed vile and shameful.

He stopped caring about her, letting others heap ridicule and scorn upon her.

For the next ten years, they were strangers.

A great deal happened in between. She was implicated in a crime and imprisoned, and she lost the hearing in her left ear...

No matter how many hardships she faced, her brother never came to see her again.

Bian Runbai wasn't upset. She knew he wanted to sever all ties with her.

She was doing well now. She had sisters she could entrust with her life, and she'd married a truly wonderful man. She'd let go of all the pain and torment of the past. All in all, everything was good.

So when she was kidnapped and put together with her brother's biological sister, and he was forced to choose one to live and one to die, she wasn't too angry when he abandoned her. After all, they no longer had anything to do with each other.

Reborn, she returned to the age of seventeen. This time, she would stay away from her brother and his highborn family, and never bring suffering upon herself again.

His little sister was wonderful in every way. Her only flaw was that she had fallen in love with him.

They had grown up together as siblings, and simply because they weren't related by blood, she had developed romantic feelings for him.

How utterly shameless.

He had been the one to correct every wrong decision she'd ever made.

This life would be no different.

Yu Lishi was always prepared to distance himself from her. He planned to remind her whenever she became confused that, even without a blood relationship, they were still only siblings, and could never be anything else.

He never imagined that the one to say those words and remind the other person would be Bian Runbai, not him.

At that moment, she struggled with all her might, dodging each kiss he tried to give her.

He repeatedly pleaded in her ear:

"Run, please love me like you did in your last life."

"I'll do a better job than he did. He was only your husband in your last life. He remembers nothing. He doesn't deserve the love you've given him across two lifetimes."

But he watched her closely. No matter what he said, from beginning to end, her face showed only disgust and indifference. His pleas left her unmoved.

The male lead in her last life: We can never be together.

The male lead in this life: We have to be together.

Theme: Once the moment passes, it never comes again.