A Homewrecker's Tale | A Scheming Man Claims His Place | Reunited After Years Apart, Fake Siblings Pretending Not to Know Each Other
On a winter day in a northern town, Cheng Yu finished her shower and only then saw the message: [I haven't left].
Sent fifty minutes ago. At the time, she was enjoying the surprise of her boyfriend showing up unexpectedly.
She walked past her boyfriend, half-asleep on the bed, closed the bedroom door, and lowered her voice to ask the man outside, "You heard everything?"
Cheng Xingnan's gaze fixed on the red mark behind her ear. The panting and intimate caresses he'd only just stopped hearing came vividly back to him.
He remembered the sweet ache of probing a loose baby tooth with his tongue, and the blood after it was forcefully pushed out.
People go through life with their permanent teeth. They are hard, with full crowns, and they push through relentlessly, dislodging the stubborn original occupants.
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Cheng Yu had always thought the fish in the house was one Cheng Xingnan had randomly bought at the pet market, until only one remained in the glass tank: a fish with a sapphire-blue zebra pattern all over its body.
She clicked her tongue. "This fish really doesn't fit in."
Cheng Xingnan simply smiled. How could a cichlid from Lake Malawi allow another species to invade its territory?
The person who was stolen from him, even if he had to steal her back, he would.
Later, he discovered that this fish wasn't male.
So it turned out he was the clownfish who'd been eaten until not a bone was left.
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Cheng Yu had graduated from university and settled into a stable career. Her boyfriend was her older brother Cheng Xingnan's best friend, and their life together was peaceful and happy.
At her boyfriend's parents' dinner, she and Cheng Xingnan sat together, maintaining the outward peace between siblings.
No one knew how much of a weakness lay hidden in Cheng Yu's graceful, warm smile.
Under the dinner table, decked out with blooming flowers, Cheng Xingnan held her hand and asked her the utterly absurd question: "Do you still like me, Cheng Yu?"
Cheng Yu felt as if a blade were at her throat. Even so, she couldn't bring herself to talk about the question she'd asked Cheng Xingnan years earlier: whether he liked her.
He'd laughed arrogantly and said, "Do you think your brother is that stupid?"
Later, behind a door at dusk.
This time, someone else brought the unexpected surprise.
Cheng Xingnan knelt and did everything he could to please her, but couldn't get even a smile from Cheng Yu.
All he could do was call her childhood nickname over and over, trying to squeeze his way back into her coral reef.
"I was the stupid one. Punish me however you want."
A few notes:
The leads are not blood-related. The heroine has no previous sexual experience; the hero does.
The professions are written to be as realistic as possible. Please point out any mistakes politely.
Theme: Love is an instinct you understand as soon as you smell it
