Latest Older ML/Younger FL Novel

Synopsis: Fake kinship | Reunion after long separation | Reunion after breakup | 6 years older ML | Status difference.

{Tech magnate heroine | Restrained and elegant superior}

On Frost's Descent day, the sky was gray, the wind was harsh, and Ye Yu'ying moved into the Cheng family with her mother. She stood in the corner, covered in the harshness of the weather, deeply aware that she was about to live under another's roof, like a migrating bird out of season with no branch to perch on.

Looking up, in the thin mist of early winter, she saw Cheng Mingdu. The young man was already tall and straight, as clean and elegant as frost. That one glance was so light, so unintentional, yet it lingered in her memories for many years.

Years ago, Cheng Mingdu was the all-round genius of Rongcheng High School, listed on the honor roll, and secretly written into girls' diaries. While Ye Yu'ying, in the alternating light and shadow of the Cheng family, pretended to be well-behaved and sensible, at school she was a fierce and rebellious teenage girl.

One was kept in the light and admired, the other was sharpened into a thorn in the shadows.

Cheng Mingdu had no particular impression of this stepsister. At home, she was quiet and polite, and after school, she sweetly called him "gege," her eyes clean and docile, showing no hint of sharpness. But that evening, he personally witnessed the girl violently beating someone in an alley, leaving them bruised and battered. When she staggered out of the alley, the bloodlust had not yet faded from her expression, but she was hurt more severely than anyone.

Her forehead was scraped, blood dripped down her eyelashes, and under his gaze, she turned her eyes away, looking disheveled and vulnerable. He asked her the reason for the fight, but she bit her lip tightly, saying nothing.

In her ears echoed the taunts from earlier that day: "Ye Yu'ying, you actually harbor feelings for Cheng Mingdu... Isn't he your brother?" He was a snowstorm in her dreams, a riddle of deep winter destined to be unsolved in her youth.

Her life had no retreat. She didn't believe in gods or buddhas, yet she made the most distant wish对着 a dry well: to have Cheng Mingdu. After she came of age, she finally, fueled by alcohol, kissed Cheng Mingdu. His face was stern, and he seized her chin, asking, "Do you know who you're kissing?"

She said, "Of course I know. I've kissed you countless times in my dreams..." Later, on a humid summer night, he leaned in close, his lips almost touching her earlobe. "I heard that wish you made."

That phrase, "I heard it," burned like fire, scorching a vast wilderness in her ear. He didn't know she had already decided to go abroad. On her last night before leaving, he kissed her as usual, gently holding her, his strength restrained, yet carrying a sense of ultimate surrender.

"It's not that I haven't thought about the consequences; I just willingly accept them." Uneasy light flickered in her eyes—a god losing control was never the beginning of a return, but the prelude to a fall. And she was the fuse that ignited the idol, soon to face the fate of immolation.

The next morning, she carried her luggage and boarded a flight to Europe, without alerting anyone. She left quietly and lightly, leaving behind a city in an uproar and utter chaos. Her love was scorching, but not enough to hold the future she desired.

She had approached with all her might, and withdrawn with all her reason, to live her own life. Eight years later, tech magnate Ye Yu'ying returned to China, and they reunited.

[HE, SC, intense push-pull, fostering relationship.] [The male and female leads are not on the same household register; there is no emotional description during the period of their family relation.] [2024.4.15]