The Defeated General

To find out how her older brother really felt about her, Lin Yu took her best friend's advice and found a fake boyfriend.

Then, after a long silence, her social media suddenly got a new photo of the two of them posing intimately.

A few days later, she even brought him home and brazenly introduced him to Zhou Ke.

A week later, Zhou Ke returned home late at night. Looking at the empty, silent living room, his eyelid suddenly twitched. He pulled out his phone, called Lin Yu, and demanded to know where she was.

A few seconds later, his little sister's soft voice came through the receiver. "Bro, I forgot to tell you. I'm not coming home tonight."

The day she finally confessed everything, tears streamed down Lin Yu's face as she forced her beloved brother to make a choice, her voice trembling. "Either be my lover, or be my brother for good. Give me a clear answer. That way I can finally give up this absurd dream and draw a safe boundary between us. Neither of us can cross that line."

"Lin Yu!" Zhou Ke was so furious that his eyes turned bloodshot. He seized her chin and said in a low voice, "Do you even know what you're saying?"

He couldn't bear the thought of them becoming complete strangers.

Isn't an overprotective brother supposed to give his little sister whatever she wants?

*Not related by blood, not registered in the same household.

Six-year age gap, both virgins.

--- Coming soon: Yu Ji ---

In March, the spring rain fell softly over Yicheng. Jin Yue's father died in the line of duty, leaving him alone. A close friend of his father's took him in at the Shen family home.

But that was also a year of chaos for the Shen family. The moment Jin Yue walked through the door, he ran into the husband and wife arguing and froze on the spot.

As his mother's words grew ever sharper, Shen Li finally couldn't take it anymore. She came out of her room, her voice drowning out the argument.

That was the first time Jin Yue saw Shen Li. On the way there, he had heard Shen Rong praise his daughter over and over, saying she was pretty and cute.

But at that moment, she looked more like a little lion with its fur standing on end.

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At first, Shen Li didn't like Jin Yue. They were strangers sharing the same roof.

Later, she thought he was an idiot. Why didn't he dodge when her mother hit him?

She spent all the pocket money she had on taking him to get treated.

Gradually, the ice between them began to thaw, though they remained distant.

Then, when Shen Li was in her final year of high school, Jin Yue, far away in Lanzhou, heard from Shen Rong that Shen Li seemed to be dating someone.

The next day, when Shen Li came home from school, she was astonished to see a white figure on the balcony.

For the first few years, everyone around Shen Li knew she had a brother she couldn't stand. Then, after the college entrance exams, Shen Li agreed to go on a graduation trip with her friends to avoid someone. When everyone saw the love bite on her neck, they pressed her in shock to tell them who it was.

Her romance with Jin Yue was like a summer downpour: fierce and passionate, and over again before she knew it.

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They met again years later, when Shen Li was being followed and went to the police station to report it. That night, someone knocked on the door of her hotel room. Her assistant went to open it and froze at the sight of the man outside. "Who are you looking for?"

Jin Yue stated his purpose bluntly, gritting his teeth as he said Shen Li's name.

At the time, Shen Li stood before him barefaced, with dark circles almost reaching her jaw, looking disheveled and panicked.

After they broke up, Shen Li had imagined countless ways they might meet again, but never this. And she certainly hadn't expected Jin Yue's first words to her after all those years to be, "Come with me."

Shen Li looked at him coldly. "Have you ever seen a couple move in with an ex after they break up?"

The word "ex" made Jin Yue's eyes turn red. He struggled to keep his emotions in check and looked at her with forced calm. "What about moving in with your brother?"

A month later, Shen Li attended a drinking party and was unexpectedly drugged. Her assistant asked frantically what they should do.

Shen Li endured her discomfort and told her to go find Jin Yue.

Afterward, as Shen Li lay beneath him, Jin Yue pinned her shoulders down and gave a cold laugh. "Shen Li, have I been nothing but a dog you can call over and send away whenever you want, all these years?"

Theme: Loving each other