My Brother: The 1980s

In her previous life, Jiang Li stood up for a friend, only to be betrayed by her. In the end, she became a caged songbird kept by someone else.

To escape her cage, she jumped from a building. When she opened her eyes again, she was back in the 1980s, on the day her parents sold her to human traffickers.

She was locked in the back of the traffickers' van with several other children. A prickly boy with a cold expression was preparing to escape.

Jiang Li recognized him. He was Chen Duo, a big shot who would later have power in both the underworld and the legitimate world.

The newspapers said he had built his fortune from nothing, with no parents, but had taken the wrong path and been sentenced to death by firing squad.

But right now, he was just a ten-year-old boy with a fierce look in his eyes.

Jiang Li followed Chen Duo as he jumped from the van and ran away. They ended up in the unfamiliar Rong'an County.

From then on, Chen Duo was Jiang Li's brother, the kind who shared neither father nor mother.

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Lately, Jiang Li thought her brother was acting strange. He kept avoiding her, staying out all night, and getting up early to do the laundry. She figured he must have someone.

So she pestered him to tell her who her sister-in-law was.

"Brother, we agreed not to keep secrets from each other. Come on, tell me! Who's my sister-in-law? Dong Qingqing or Yaoyao? Or is it Sister Xu Wu?"

Chen Duo ignored her until she pestered him so much that he lost patience and walked toward her, step by step.

His gaze was dark and severe, cold enough to pierce her. Danger radiated from his whole body.

Jiang Li sensed something was wrong and turned to run, but he grabbed her and lifted her onto the sink.

She scooted backward until her back touched the cold mirror.

Only then did Chen Duo hold her chin and turn her face toward the mirror, making her look at her own disheveled hair and flushed lips.

"Didn't you want to see your sister-in-law? Why aren't you calling her?"

Jiang Li trembled, unable to speak. In Chen Duo's eyes, she saw herself.

But he was her brother!

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"My brother bought me a princess dress from Shanghai!"

"My brother paid for dance lessons and said I was a little princess!"

"My brother wouldn't let boys court me. But later, my brother became my man."

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My brother was a man who couldn't afford to feed himself, yet bought me princess dresses. He dropped out of school to raise me, and felt too inferior to deserve me.

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The heroine returns to the 1980s and refuses to be anyone's caged bird. She and the hero grow together and build their fortunes together!

Theme: Love nourishes the body and soul