After a breakup, Jiang Lianyu got blackout drunk. In her muddled state, she fell into a slightly chilly embrace.
She recognized that clean scent at once: it belonged to Chen Wenjian, her childhood friend of twelve years. He would never hurt her, so she let her guard down and fell asleep peacefully in his arms...
But when she woke in the middle of the night, burning hot, a strange sensation spread through her limbs. She suddenly opened her eyes and saw a pair of dark eyes only inches away, staring at her with abnormal excitement, like a wolf that had finally caught the prey it had coveted for so long. Only then did she realize just how badly she had misjudged him.
“Y-you...” Jiang Lianyu shrank back in fright, instantly sobering up.
“What’s wrong, Jiangjiang?” The man smiled. He still looked so gentle as his large hand brushed across the girl’s forehead, then slowly moved lower. He sighed as if pained for her.
“Look at you, sweating so much. What are you so afraid of?”
*Reading guide:
A free short story, mildly possessive romance, both leads are each other’s only partners and secretly love each other. The supposed heartbreak is just the heroine’s little ploy.
*Also coming soon: a modern pseudo-sibling romance. If you’re interested, please add it to your collection~
When Ruan Zhiyao was sixteen, her mother remarried. They held a wedding but never registered the marriage, yet in name, Fang Chengye became her stepbrother. In front of a crowd, she was brought before him and forced to say, “Hello, brother.”
“Don’t call me brother.” The young man looked at her with arrogant, fierce eyes. His words were as sharp as a knife.
Ruan Zhiyao turned pale and nearly burst into tears, but Fang Chengye watched coldly and didn’t offer a single word of comfort.
Two years later, her mother’s second marriage ended in another breakup, automatically dissolving Ruan Zhiyao and Fang Chengye’s nominal sibling relationship. She had also done well enough to get into S University, so her mother took her away from the home they had lived in for two years and left City A.
She thought she’d never see that nasty, difficult young man again. But at an alumni event at S University, Fang Chengye showed up once more under the title of “distinguished alumnus.” His brief but memorable speech was warmly received.
After he stepped down, Ruan Zhiyao watched her roommate excitedly run up to ask for his contact information. But after a moment of silence, Fang Chengye sent an amused gaze over the crowd and looked straight at her. He raised his chin toward the woman beside him and joked, “You can ask her for my contact information.”
Everyone turned around at once.
Ruan Zhiyao: “?”
Seeing that she was finally willing to look at him, Fang Chengye smiled and casually explained, “After all, she should still call me... brother.”
Reading guide:
1. The leads are not blood-related and have no legal relationship. They only begin to understand their feelings in college.
2. The male lead is devoted to the heroine in both body and heart.
Blurb written on August 8, 2025, at 2:48 a.m.
Theme: Seize the opportunity and love bravely
