Burning Through a Spring Night

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Fake siblings | Healing each other | Mutual pining comes true

Bright, teasing little sister & cool, restrained adoptive brother

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The day Ye Anqi returned to the Meng family in a car whose logo she didn't recognize, she overheard plenty of gossip.

"I heard the Mengs found the little miss who went missing."

"So what if they found her? The Meng family has belonged to Meng Siwei for a long time. The old man brought her back just to put his adopted son in check."

"Who do you think will win?"

"Isn't it obvious?"

In the damp, stifling breeze of a late-spring evening, their casual conversation drifted through the car window.

"She's just a little girl. Meng Siwei can play with her like she's a dog."

Is that so?

Does Meng Siwei play with her like she's a dog?

Leaning against the soft leather seat, Ye Anqi tilted her head and wondered.

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It had been six months since the Meng family's little miss returned.

Things had gone just as everyone expected. The two heirs were rarely seen together. Their relationship was strained, and when they met in public, they acted like strangers, not even exchanging greetings.

Snow fell on a winter night as guests mingled in the banquet hall, glasses clinking amid the crowd.

In a second-floor lounge, two figures overlapped by the window.

"Brother, they're making bets." Ye Anqi wrapped both arms around Meng Siwei's neck and looked down at the floor below. "They're betting on when you'll kick me out."

The man lowered his eyes. His suit sleeves were rolled up, revealing a beautifully boned wrist resting on the girl's waist.

He frowned slightly and silenced her with a kiss.

Amid broken, wet sounds came a murmured whisper: "Don't call me brother, Ye Anqi."

"Then what should I call you?"

Meng Siwei gave a mocking laugh and listed the names softly: "Butler, housekeeper, driver, cook, ATM, errand boy..."

"Or your dog?"

"I'll be whatever you say I am."

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A spoiled little sister who does whatever she wants & an adoptive brother who puts on an act | Six-year age gap

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-- Below is the blurb for my upcoming novel, "Crossing the Line" --

Mutual cheating | Taboo romance | The second male lead wins

Elegant, noble dom-style head of a powerful family & a cool, haughty heiress who does as she pleases

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Before the end of her 20th birthday yacht party, Zhou Shuyu returns to her room alone and writes down two secrets in her diary.

The first secret.

She's discovered that her fiance, Liang Ke, is cheating on her with her cousin, Zhou Qing.

The second secret.

Last night, after she "accidentally" got drunk, she knocked on the door of Liang Ke's older brother, Liang Zhixi.

The yacht sails across the night sea, the cabin rocking gently.

At the boundary between night and day, Liang Zhixi fastens the top button of her shirt dress for her.

"Don't be afraid." He gently strokes the top of her head, soothing her in a low voice. "He won't find out."

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Zhou Shuyu never expected that someone like Liang Zhixi, a reserved man who always seemed noble and impeccable in public, could go mad over something like this.

At first, when she sought him out and asked if he could marry her in his younger brother Liang Ke's place, he only laughed softly and told her, "A Yu, I'll never be anyone's second choice."

But later, his eyes turned dark as he questioned her coldly: "You're saying you want to end this improper relationship with me?"

#Then who do you want to have a proper relationship with, my idiot younger brother?

#Look me in the eye and say it again. Is he worthy of you??

Theme: Love breaks through constraints and rules.