Stealing Blue

[Complete | Stealing someone’s partner / pseudo-siblings / bickering couple] The third time Liang Jingchuan saw his friend Chen Boyu let his parents pick apart his girlfriend, Lan Yan, without saying a word in her defense, he couldn’t help thinking: If you don’t know how to treat your girlfriend, let someone else do it. He didn’t say it out loud. He put it into action instead. "You are the spring I had no right to claim." The messy love-triangle version: (1) In her first year of high school, Lan Yan received some shocking news: Her father had found her a stepmother, who came with a tagalong: Liang Jingchuan, two years older than her. She and the newly acquired stepbrother couldn’t stand each other, and she never bothered to hide it. Still, Liang Jingchuan wasn’t entirely useless. At least his friend Chen Boyu seemed pretty great. (2) When Liang Jingchuan came home for the holidays, he received some shocking news: His stepsister, whom he’d spent years fighting with, was dating his best friend. (3) After breaking up with Lan Yan, Chen Boyu received some shocking news: His ex-girlfriend was now dating his best buddy. * “I’m not taking her from you. I’m taking back what should have been mine all along.” - * A story about stealing someone’s partner / Male lead has prior relationships, female lead does not * Hot-tempered beauty who’s quick to anger x scheming ghost of a man who advances one small step at a time * All the characters have flaws. If you prefer perfect characters, consider carefully before reading. * The leads’ parents never legally married, and the leads are not registered in the same household, so they have no legal family relationship. - ◆ Thanks to reader Miaoxi R for her help with details related to the female lead’s profession. Theme: Love is the greatest courage