Big Brother, You Can’t Leave Me

[Complete] [XP-driven] [Step-siblings] [Writing without restraint] [Lots of potential triggers, read the warnings!]

When She Miao was eight, her mother married into wealth and moved to Hong Kong. Her mother became a rich man's wife, and She Miao became the stepdaughter of a tycoon.

Her mother told her she had to be obedient and sweet-tongued, and learn how to please people. If she could keep Uncle Bai and his son happy, the two of them would have everything they needed for the rest of their lives.

She Miao took her mother's advice to heart. So when she first met Uncle Bai's son, even though the boy's gaze was cold and tinged with faint contempt, she still put on her best-behaved smile and looked at him with the limpid eyes she had inherited from her mother. "Hello, big brother!"

But he ignored her.

She Miao thought, That's okay. For her mother's sake and her own, she'd try hard to win him over and be a good little sister.

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Years later, Bai Bianyang looked at She Miao asleep in his bed and thought with sudden bitter amusement that this whole mess had begun with her calling him "big brother" all those years ago.

He had been the one who failed to hold the line.

She only wanted to be his little sister.

And he had already fallen too far to be saved.

--Little sister, the youth I shared with you was no less than a first love.

Delicate white flower x well-mannered scum

Scheming little sister x obsessive, unhinged big brother

The sister "seduces" her brother, and he forces himself on her. He hurts her early on, then she hurts him later. They torment each other for life. She grovels for him, but he grovels even harder. A deeply twisted, dark and obsessive step-sibling romance.

The heroine is a fragile little white flower. The first, second, third, and fourth male leads all love her. The author loves stories where a weak woman has a powerful man under her thumb.

The male lead is a beast, not a good person. He's the kind of beast you only recognize if you look closely. I really like this line from The Glory, describing Ha Do-young, the second male lead who seems so cultured but is still an arrogant member of the elite at heart, so I've quoted it here.

Don't assume this is a sweet romance and jump in just because the premise sounds all right. Read the warnings first:

The triggers could circle the solar system three times over, including but not limited to: seriously flawed morals and values in the leads | inhumane revenge against vicious supporting characters | genuine non-consensual love | the sister has the emotional upper hand, but is truly pitiful | the brother is a trashy man who doesn't deserve a happy ending, but he grovels until she forgives him, and they get a happy ending anyway.

The author is an evil stepmother in this story. It is not suitable for readers who are devoted to either the heroine or the male lead. This is only for strong-hearted readers with a high tolerance and no triggers. If you can't stand either lead being hurt, want neither the man nor the woman to suffer, don't want to feel frustrated, and expect the leads to behave with completely normal logic, don't read this.

I don't care whether readers live or die, I just write what I like. The author is losing it and just wants to write a twisted story about step-siblings falling deeper into ruin, hurting each other, and despising themselves. If that's not your thing, don't challenge yourself. Go read something sweet instead. 💔

[Old-school angst] [The author's tastes are extremely triggering and vulgar. This is written purely to indulge myself, so please forgive me] [I knew before I started writing that this would get me flamed. Feel free to throw stones and rotten flowers, but don't attack the author or readers personally]

A tragic love story of step-siblings who would rather die than let the other go. I came up with a whole bunch of wealthy-family intrigue to make the forced-love fetish work, but I really hate writing plot. Every time I write plot, it feels like doing math homework. I only want to write the brother and sister's two-person drama, but I can't avoid the plot, so the storyline is terrible.

Important note: The leads are not related by blood or law. All criminal acts in this story will be severely punished by law.

This is the second book in the series [We crossed the boundaries of morality and walked through love's forbidden territory].

Mainland China and Hong Kong setting, with a street-level Hong Kong vibe.

Theme: Family bonds are priceless.