Ever since they were little, Zhou Yuxiu had taught Zhou Wanqiao to take responsibility for what she did.
He never expected Zhou Wanqiao to want to do it with him, much less to refuse to take responsibility afterward.
A coquettish girl x an older man
[1]
Winter in Nancheng was biting, cold, and damp.
Zhou Yuxiu and Zhou Wanqiao returned home for the New Year, one after the other.
Their elders teased them, saying the little sister had grown up and become distant from her older brother.
The two of them were covered in snow. They took off their coats and were ordered by their elders to sit by the fireplace and warm up.
An inadvertent glance sparked feelings more intense than the flames in the fireplace.
One winter, she had curled up in his arms and shared a lingering kiss with him.
[2]
[I hate Zhou Yuxiu the most!
Zhou Yuxiu is such a coward!
Why does he have to make me choose?
Can't I have everything?
I'll go to the US for school, and he can take a work assignment there. What a great idea!
That way, I can have both love and my studies, and the elders won't find out!
Why won't he agree!!]
Just back from the US, Zhou Yuxiu was tidying the study in his spare time when he came across his younger sister's diary from two years ago, among the piles of old books.
Zhou Yuxiu laughed in disbelief.
So who was the coward, really?
And who was it that chose to stay in the country in the end?
He had never been the one to run away at the last moment.
[3]
After graduating from college, Zhou Wanqiao brought her boyfriend home.
Her boyfriend hit it off with her adoptive parents, and the living room was filled with laughter.
Zhou Wanqiao went out to get a cake, but was trapped in the car.
The cramped space was thick with a rich, sweet, metallic scent.
The man, satisfied, lifted her chin and kissed her lightly. "Break up with him."
When she didn't respond, the man's smile deepened. He mocked himself as he said, "You were so decisive when you abandoned me. But now that it's someone else, you can't bear to let him go?"
It was at that moment Zhou Wanqiao vaguely remembered that he'd been the one to make the first move when they shared their first kiss.
Zhou Yuxiu mocked Zhou Wanqiao for being greedy, telling her again and again that she couldn't have her cake and eat it too.
Little did he know that he was the greediest one of all.
He was jealous that Zhou Wanqiao cared more about someone else than she did about him.
Even when that "someone else" meant his own parents.
He was greedy. He wanted all of Zhou Wanqiao for himself.
Pseudo-siblings | The greediest one is him
In short, it's a story about a little fox who flirts with an aloof, high-and-mighty man and then refuses to take responsibility, driving him to "turn dark" and grab her for some hot and heavy fun.
1. Both leads are inexperienced, and are physically and emotionally faithful to each other. The heroine's boyfriend is just a pretense.
2. The hero is ten years older.
3. The heroine and hero are not on the same household registration, and are not related by blood. The heroine was fostered by the family. Both leads are adults at the start!
Theme: Be kind to others and keep one another warm.
