Claiming the Childhood Sweetheart

[Childhood Friend Takes Her for Himself | Two Wealthy Families] Coercive Romance

Zhou Lexi was a little princess whom everyone had cherished since she was born.

Her parents adored each other, her older sister doted on her, and she had Qin Yue, the childhood friend and big brother who always put her first.

Qin Yue, heir to the Qin family, took charge of its power at a very young age. In public, he was elegant and detached, arrogant and unruly.

He was a highly sought-after guest, yet getting even a smile from him was difficult.

Zhou Lexi was the one exception.

He granted her every request and broke every rule for her.

He had never once told her no.

*

Zhou Lexi was exhausted from pursuing Xu Ting.

He was like a block of ice, no matter how much she flirted with him.

With no other options, she went to Qin Yue

after all, “men understand men best.”

Zhou Lexi came up to Qin Yue and, for once, asked him for advice with an unusually sweet, pleading look.

“You like him that much?”

“I do, Brother Qin Yue. Give me some advice?”

Qin Yue’s voice sank, his dark gaze fixed on her. “No.”

At that moment, the possessiveness he’d been suppressing in his heart began to grow wildly.

*

Qin Yue’s bedroom, late at night.

The bed was a mess, and the air grew thick with heat and desire.

Zhou Lexi, eyes red, struggled to curl up in the corner of the bed.

Her voice was choked with tears. “Stop…”

“I can’t stop.”

Qin Yue closed in step by step and leaned over her.

His cold fingertips traced her swollen lips, swollen from his kisses.

“Didn’t you say men understand men best?”

When those quiet, taciturn eyes start looking at you, all I want is to kill him.

Qin Yue’s greatest regret in life was introducing Xu Ting to Zhou Lexi and letting them meet.

Fortunately, he still had time to undo that mistake.

Qin Yue tightened his arms around her, holding her firmly in his embrace.

“Lexi, we’ve known each other since we were three.”

“You can only be mine.”

Reader’s guide:

① A wildly jealous heir vs. a proud young heiress who’s hard to appease

② SCSJ, three-year age gap, 169 vs. 189

Blurb screenshot dated 2025-06-17

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Childhood friends | Coercive romance | She runs, he chases

[Cold, unhinged childhood-friend big brother × gentle, timid little childhood sweetheart]

When Shi Xi was five, she moved with her remarried mother from the old city neighborhood into a villa district. Her older stepsister, who shared neither parent with her, then brought her into the social circle of rich kids.

The young masters and heiresses had all grown up together as childhood friends.

When they grew up, many of them fulfilled their families’ plans for arranged marriages by choosing partners from within their circle.

Shi Xi was nominally the Qin family’s second daughter, but in reality she was only her older sister’s sidekick: timid, meek, obedient, and easy to overlook.

The Xie family had been an eminent clan for generations. Their heir, Xie Qingyue, was one of the most prominent young men in their social circle: a favored son of heaven, arrogant, cold, and untouchable.

Even her older sister warned Shi Xi that Xie Qingyue was the last person she should cross in their circle. “Stay away from him.”

Shi Xi wanted nothing more than to stay away from him, as far as possible.

Everyone said Xie Qingyue was cold and distant, an ice block that could never be warmed.

Only Shi Xi knew how scorching hot that ice could be.

Behind closed doors, he was clingy and insatiable. He especially liked biting a tiny mole at the back of her neck and leaving teeth marks.

Getting involved with Xie Qingyue was the thing Shi Xi regretted most. She wanted to run.

But she had no idea that Xie Qingyue had seen through her supposedly foolproof plan all along.

On a stormy night, Shi Xi had just pulled open the car door and climbed in. She hadn’t even had time to celebrate her successful escape when she suddenly met a pair of familiar, fathomless eyes.

“Surprise, baby. Good evening.”

The man’s long fingers tapped idly on the leather seat. “Do you know where this car is going?”

He leaned toward her, his fingertips brushing her cheek, cold with fear. “To a beautiful island, to a villa waiting for us to spend our vacation together.”

“You dared to provoke me. You dared to play with me.”

He lowered his head, his lips brushing the tip of her ear. His voice was as soft as a sigh. “Then we’ll play this through to the end. It stops when I say it stops.”

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