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Wen Bingjie grew up in her older sister's shadow, until her stepson became her dog.
1.
Unlike gloomy, ill-fated Bingjie, her older sister Qingyu was the very picture of a perfect, happy life. Yet she married a man fifteen years her senior, a divorcee with a son.
Thanks to her sister, Bingjie transferred to a school in Jingbei and was driven up to a villa halfway up the mountain in a Red Flag car.
Only then did she learn that her brother-in-law was no ordinary man.
Her stepson, Cui Ze, was even more beautiful, almost otherworldly. His eyes were like a pool hidden beneath flowering trees, staring at her darkly from below.
Bingjie, living under someone else's roof, realized that her days ahead could only get worse.
Who could have guessed?
The pampered young man suddenly had an episode. He sent the doctors away, shoved his father over, and made her sister cry.
His deranged gaze swept the room before abruptly fixing on the ignored corner. "I won't take my medicine unless my pretty sister feeds it to me."
Bingjie indifferently turned her gaze away. The mirrored wall reflected her underdeveloped, skinny body and her pallid face hidden behind long bangs. ...Who is he talking about?
2.
Gloomy Bingjie never smiled. She only watched Cui Ze, whose hand had been bitten by the curly-haired dog, and slowly curled her lips into a sinister smile.
"It likes you, so it wants you to hurt."
"Love is the most useless thing. If you want it, lock it up next time."
Luckily, Cui Ze took her words to heart. His sickly pallor and eerie beauty mingled in his eyes. "Xiao Ze will remember!"
The Cui family had an expensive curly-haired dog. Bingjie called the dog, but it wouldn't answer. She called Cui Ze, and Cui Ze went, "Woof!"
She found Cui Ze noisy. He stopped talking and lay on the floor alongside the curly-haired dog, staring at her without moving until her mood improved.
When her period suddenly started, Cui Ze ran from his Olympiad class to the sports field and gave her his uniform pants. He wore her bloodstained uniform skirt and finished the rest of the class.
The adults' expressions shifted ever so slightly. The sick thrill of victory made her teeth itch and chatter.
But she also realized that her little angel was growing into a full-blown pervert.
Luckily, her brother-in-law contacted a school overseas and was willing to pay to send her away.
Bingjie disappeared for good.
3.
Years later, Bingjie returned to the country and went back to the villa to thank her generous brother-in-law.
Cui Ze held the curly-haired dog, now visibly old but completely obedient. He had grown into someone even more outstanding than his father.
"Um... why isn't your father here?"
"He's working. He'll be back tonight."
Hearing him speak to her as if she were a stranger, Bingjie understood that time had moved on and finally let down her guard.
But that very night, a trembling, delighted voice woke her.
"Sis, do I look like my father?"
She opened her eyes in terror. The young man was wearing his father's gold-rimmed glasses, along with an identical shirt and slacks that looked a little tight on him.
In the darkness, she heard the cold restraints scrape softly across the floor.
"I make you hurt because I love you. If you want someone, just lock them up."
"You taught me that, Sis. Did I learn well?"
A gloomy, alluring woman with a deathly aura × a possessive, younger sickly beauty
Animal motifs: White Plume Moth × Curly-Haired Dog
*The characters are flawed.
*Both are each other's first. Bingjie doesn't like her brother-in-law. Bingjie is about a year older than Cui Ze.
*The romance and intimate scenes don't involve minors. The older sister isn't legally married, so they aren't legally related.
----The blurb was revised and screenshotted on September 21, 2026----
Theme: Be a good person