Jasmine Knot

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In the five years since moving into the Zhou family home, Shaozhen and Zhou Yishen have barely interacted, aside from putting on a warm show of sibling affection at New Year's Eve dinner.

Things changed when she was forced to move in with Zhou Yishen.

At first, they kept out of each other's way.

But one day, Shaozhen unexpectedly found Zhou Yishen sitting in the living room, looking troubled, as if he had been waiting specifically for her.

Zhou Yishen asked, “Do you have any other older brothers? Cousins on either side count.”

Shaozhen found the question rather baffling and answered honestly, “No. For now, you’re my only older brother.”

At that, the look in his eyes grew even more complicated.

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Zhou Yishen knew he and his younger sister weren’t close.

They simply lived in the same city, Jiangcheng, and their father had asked him to look after her.

Then one day, he saw a line on Shaozhen’s computer screen: Falling in love with my brother is my destiny.

He knew his younger sister wrote web novels.

He just hadn’t expected her to write an incestuous romance about siblings.

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Shaozhen thought Zhou Yishen had been acting a little strange lately.

After turning it over in her mind, she blamed herself for getting too wrapped up in her writing and starting to see him strangely.

Until she realized he seemed to know she wrote romance stories about siblings...

Shaozhen panicked a little. To avoid making it seem immoral, she earnestly explained, “The male and female leads aren’t blood related. They’re step-siblings... You know what I mean, right?”

After speaking, she nervously watched his expression.

Then she saw him fall silent for a moment before looking up at her meaningfully.

“Like us?”

*Easygoing girl x seemingly gentle, pathologically doting older brother; both devoted only to each other

*Three-year age gap; not blood related; not on the same household register

*No romance while they still have a familial relationship

Theme: Love is real