The Fragrance of Magnolia

A yandere villainess x a restrained young gentleman

Lai Pingting had a brother who doted on her more than anyone in the world, until the truth came out that she wasn't really a daughter of the Lai family. They threw her out of the estate.

She could do without everything else, but she couldn't bear to lose her brother.

When Lai Chuan kept a cold face but still refused to leave her alone, keeping her in a small courtyard and brewing medicine and bringing her meals, Lai Pingting took advantage of his kindness and did something that violated the bounds of propriety with him.

Lai Chuan fled in a panic.

But when Lai Chuan found out that Lai Pingting had left the courtyard, he became listless day after day and searched for her like a madman.

When they met again, Lai Chuan kicked open the doors of one private room after another in the brothel. By the time he reached the last room on the second floor, fury was burning in his chest.

He heard the sweet, girlish voice that haunted his midnight dreams, brightly calling someone else "Chui Lang." Like her sharp tiger teeth, the name pierced Lai Chuan's heart, making it hard to breathe.

When he burst through the door, he saw that familiar, radiant beauty smiling brightly at someone else.

Reader's guide:

1. One-on-one romance, both leads' first time, pseudo-siblings.

2. The female lead forcefully pursues and claims him.

3. A person in power falls hard.

4. The younger sister doesn't mistreat herself. She does everything because she thinks it makes her happy. (P.S. This doesn't represent the author's values.)

Currently writing this one: Contemporary pseudo-sibling romance, Not My Real Brother, So What's Wrong with Kissing Him?

A sensitive younger sister who calmly goes a little crazy x a cool-headed, steady older brother with a dominant streak

Pseudo-siblings | Both leads' first time | Five-year age gap

Fang Su became Cheng Yin and moved into the Cheng household. Mrs. Cheng called her Yin Yin and treated her with great affection.

Nineteen-year-old Cheng Yuchi remained calm at the dinner table. "She's not Yin Yin."

She had always known her place. She knew that the Cheng mother and son doted on her only because they treated her as Cheng Yin, and that she shouldn't entertain improper feelings about them.

On a rainy day, in her little apartment, she watched Cheng Yuchi's veined hand on her phone screen and slipped her hand into her cotton candy. From then on, Cheng Yuchi knew the feelings she'd kept buried in her heart, and he began to keep his distance from her.

One day, after getting unexpectedly drunk, she staggered back to her apartment. Her usually cold, disciplined older brother appeared there, and she thought she was hallucinating.

Fueled by alcohol, Fang Su threw herself at him and did something she'd never dare to do sober. On her little fabric sofa, she undid Cheng Yuchi's belt.

The next day, she left Rongcheng without a word.

Her usually composed older brother searched the entire city like a madman. Four thousand two hundred kilometers away in Beicheng, Fang Su had just gotten a new local SIM card when she received a call from an unfamiliar number in Rongcheng. She answered cautiously. "Hello?"

The man's voice on the other end was as composed as ever, though edged with a cold laugh. "I'm fine? You got what you wanted and then walked away. How do you think I feel?"

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Fang Su kept remembering what her brother had told her: "You'll always be my little sister."

So she went on dates, went skiing, and rode her bike at night, doing everything she could to make Cheng Yuchi worry.

At last, amid a cheering crowd, Cheng Yuchi forcibly carried Fang Su away and carefully bundled her into the car. He held her chin with one hand. His domineering, feverish kiss revealed all the feelings he'd kept suppressed for so long. In the brief pause between breaths, he gritted his teeth and asked, "Didn't you tell me not to marry anyone else? I did as you asked. What about you?"

"When you saw me in the same room as another man, did you ever think I'd get angry?"

Fang Su blinked. "But you chased him away."

Cheng Yuchi's eyes were full of surging jealousy. "You're still mad at me!"

The sweetness of melting frost spread through the car.

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Cheng Yuchi had never once mistaken Fang Su for Cheng Yin. At first, he repeatedly reminded Fang Su of their agreement: she was only pretending to be Yin Yin in front of Mrs. Cheng.

But as they spent day after day together, Fang Su, who had grown up on the yellow earth, barged her way into his heart. Given their relationship, he was cautious and restrained. When he discovered Fang Su's feelings, he chose to run away.

The feelings he'd suppressed for years finally came undone in an accident.

There was someone hidden in his heart. Whenever he thought of her, it was like clothing stuck to a wound on a damp, rainy night: leave it alone and it itched, touch it and the pain was unbearable.

Theme: A forced-melons romance can still be sweet.