The Rainy Season

The first time Xia Zhaoye was brought back to the wealthy family, he saw his adoptive older sister from afar: Wen Ying, the legendary heir to the Wen family, proud and disdainful of everyone beneath her.

The thin boy stood before her, his face pale and strikingly handsome.

But his personality was weak. He was timid and stammered through every sentence.

Compared with her real younger brother, he was utterly beneath her.

From then on, Wen Ying regarded the child her father had with another woman as a thorn in her side, a thorn in her flesh.

She often bullied and mocked him with cold disdain.

She had never taken him seriously, but everything that happened afterward forced her to notice what an alluring poisonous plant the boy, who had grown up in the shadowy corners of the household, had twisted into.

First came texts from unknown numbers and undergarments that mysteriously disappeared.

Then, at nightfall, the shadow beside her bed and her hazy dreams...

At first, he only wanted to fit into this family and be her younger brother, too.

But she treated him like a dog.

Later, he went mad wanting to be her dog.

But she said he was her younger brother.

Arrogant, cruel older sister x gloomy, twisted younger brother

The male and female leads are not related by blood, and when they fall in love, they are no longer registered under the same household.

There is no romance while their familial relationship remains in place.

Have a look at my next upcoming novel: Bad Girls Go to Heaven

Cruel, gorgeous, clever villainess x upright, aloof, lovestruck good man

The newly reunited heiress of Kyoto's wealthy Rong family was poised and elegant, well-read and reasonable. Though she had grown up in the mire, she was a beauty as pure as the moon.

As soon as she was brought home, everyone in the family took a liking to her.

Kind, gentle, clever, adorable: that was how they described her.

Shen Zhouling was reserved, honest, and proper. By rights, someone like him should never have had anything to do with the lofty Miss Rong.

On the day Rong Yi got engaged to the Jiang family, Shen Zhouling appeared before her.

The usually gentle and composed Miss Rong looked flustered.

In front of everyone, Shen Zhouling took out a worn red cord. "She's my girlfriend."

Rong Yi had grown up in a remote mountain village. At the village's rundown school, there was an oddball named Shen Zhouling.

They were all poor, yet he went around with a stern face, washing his clothes until they faded. He was clean and impoverished, taciturn and quiet.

His grades were so excellent that even the teachers sighed over him. It was a pity he had been born in the wrong place.

Rong Yi often kept an eye on him, not because she liked him, but because she envied him.

Why could he rise from the mud unstained when they had both come from the bottom?

She was determined to bully him until he broke.

Later, Rong Yi traded a red cord she had bought from a street stall for Shen Zhouling's family heirloom jade pendant.

Then she became the Rong family's heiress.

She thought it would be nice if Shen Zhouling died.

But Shen Zhouling clung to her like a ghost.

Having stolen someone else's life, Rong Yi lived each day in anxiety when that person appeared before her again.

Until one day, she could no longer stand it and clutched his throat.

But Shen Zhouling told her he loved her.

"My love for her defies reason, jeopardizes my future, robs me of self-control, shatters my hopes, ruins my happiness, and condemns me to taste every kind of frustration and disappointment.

But once I fell in love with her, I could never stop loving her."

Theme: Love is beautiful, true, and good