My Dead Brother Won't Leave Me Alone

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During the period after Chu Shiyun's eye surgery, she often felt something cold touching her face and roaming over her body in her sleep.

Her fiance, Song Ran, came from a wealthy family. He was stunningly beautiful, ruthless, and cruel. Anyone who offended him met a terrible end. He was like a venomous coral snake, and no one understood why he had taken an interest in a well-behaved young woman with an eye condition.

At first, she didn't understand either, and she was afraid of him.

His invitations could not be refused, and his forceful kisses were domineering and passionate.

But on a stormy night, he rushed over and held her as he comforted her. Only her older brother knew that she was afraid of thunder.

She noticed that Song Ran was becoming more and more like her older brother, until the day something cold bound her limbs and pressed down on her.

Song Ran intertwined his fingers with hers and smiled tenderly. "A Yun, don't be afraid."

Her whole body stiffened.

Only the boy who had been adopted from the orphanage alongside her and become her older brother called her by the nickname A Yun.

But he had been dead for a year.

Pseudo-incest, mildly coercive, Lovecraftian paranormal horror.

Next story, "I Fell for the Younger Brother, but Flirted with the Commander Older Brother by Mistake":

Yu Songxin is a B-grade psychic ability user and a genius portrait artist, but she's useless at housework. The mountains of shredded paper she leaves behind when she works have terrified her colleagues.

When her father was transferred to the base army, she moved with him to the inner city and met a handsome man at first sight.

The handsome man wore a crisp, austere military uniform and had a cool smile. Compared to the imposing, icy mountain of a man standing beside him, he was worlds apart.

She wore her father down until he helped her get the sunny, cool guy's contact information, then pursued him herself.

Yu Songxin: Are you married? Do you have a girlfriend?

Commander: Do you work at the household registration office?

Yu Songxin: No, I want to pursue you!

In person, the other man was warm and considerate, treating her to soup dumplings and arranging all kinds of chance encounters. Online, however, he was cold and sharp-tongued, as if he were a completely different person.

Yu Songxin: You said you liked buns, so I'll treat you!

Commander: I like buns?

Yu Songxin: [Animated sticker] Bun

Commander: ...Thanks for the insincere air bun.

Yu Songxin: That's not true, I'm very sincere!

Commander: Oh.

He was too hard to pursue, so she decided to give up. But then he asked to meet her.

Oh no, she had been pursuing the wrong person!

It turned out that the person she'd been chatting with every day was the base commander, an SS-grade lightning ability user, and the older brother of the sunny, cool guy! That icy mountain of a man!

Yu Songxin stepped back. "If I said I added the wrong person, would you believe me?"

Fu Tingyue cast a dark shadow over her, enveloping her. "How it started doesn't matter. What matters is that it's my turn to pursue you."

Theme: Protection.