Ill-tempered rich heiress who picks on the weak and fears the strong x impoverished boy who alternates between soft and hard tactics
Childhood sweethearts | Reuniting after a breakup | Possessive pursuit
After Jiang Yunchu's fight with her stepmother caused the latter to miscarry, her furious father sent her to a small town a thousand miles from home to live with the grandfather she hadn't seen in seventeen years.
This small, obscure town had nothing to offer, and there was little affection between grandfather and granddaughter.
Her friend was certain the eldest Miss Jiang would be throwing a tantrum and demanding to go home within three days.
Unexpectedly, not only did she make no fuss, she settled in and seemed to enjoy herself.
Years ago, Grandpa Jiang had cut ties with his own son and the rest of the family. He had taken in a child he found outside and raised him, treating him like his own for years.
At first, Jiang Yunchu couldn't stand her grandfather's “adopted grandson.”
She thought he was sharp-tongued and mean, that he had no idea how to treat a lady, and that his cold, stern expression made him terribly dull.
It wasn't until Jiang Yunchu caught him washing himself by the well that she discovered the pleasures of his body.
A great many pleasures.
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Shen Qingji was an orphan, but he had a face that made girls' hearts race. He was warm and friendly on the surface, but cold-hearted in private.
Jiang Yunchu went from disliking him to wanting him.
What the young miss wants, the young miss gets.
But no matter how much she fussed, he always kept his distance. Even when pushed to the limit, all he said was, “I'm your brother.”
Even the notoriously difficult Jiang Yunchu couldn't handle one Shen Qingji.
Fine, Jiang Yunchu gave up.
He wasn't the only handsome guy with a good body around.
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After the college entrance exams, on the day they returned to school to collect their admission notices, a classmate pointed to a figure in the distance. “Your sister.”
Shen Qingji watched her walking across campus, arm in arm with a man, laughing and chatting.
She was wearing her favorite white dress.
That night, rain poured down. Jiang Yunchu returned from a reunion with old friends.
She was soaked through, her wet hair clinging to the sides of her face.
Beneath the white dress, the curves of her body were plain to see.
In the quiet little building on that rainy night, Grandpa Jiang had already gone to bed.
Jiang Yunchu had sneaked out, and she begged Shen Qingji not to tell him.
“Don't want me to tell Grandpa?” Shen Qingji stepped closer, his gaze restrained, but his words were anything but. “Then take off your dress.”
“You call him your brother. What am I, then?”
“Why are you crying? Can you only pick on the weak?”
“Yunchu, let me be your husband, okay?”
“Jiang Yunchu, you will never leave me in this lifetime.”
Only later did Jiang Yunchu realize what kind of lunatic she had provoked.
Shen Qingji: You are the only color in my dark life.
Male lead: Cool, cocky, and ascetic in public, but fierce and full of tricks behind closed doors.
Female lead: A spoiled, bad-tempered heiress in public, but innocent, naive, and timid in private.
* The female lead seems to be in control, but the male lead has her firmly in hand.
* Neither lead is perfect. The female lead has a bad temper, and the male lead is possessive and dangerously obsessive.
* The leads are not related by law or by blood in any way.
Theme: True love is priceless.
