Surrender to the Dawn

A seemingly gentle but ruthless male lead x a seemingly innocent but calculating female lead, mutual salvation, reunion after years apart, modern romance with a groveling pursuit, blended family with pseudo-incest

After her mother married up and remarried, taking Cheng Zhili with her, Cheng gained a stepbrother whom her stepfather called a good-for-nothing.

He dropped out of high school and spent his days hanging out with common thugs. Wild, cold, and unhinged, he wore black earrings and a leather jacket, and smoked, drank, and played pool.

When Cheng Zhili acted like a well-behaved girl, he couldn’t even be bothered to look at her. But when she let her true nature show, she caught his interest.

At first, Cheng Zhili would smile sweetly and call him Brother. He’d sneer that he’d always been an only child.

Then he started bringing her flowers and buying her cake on her birthday. He even turned his life around and got a proper job to pave the way for her. Everyone around them envied her for having such a good brother.

In the end, when she started dating at college, the young man looked at her coldly and raised a hand to cover her eyes.

“They say you’re a good girl, a model student?”