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Fostering | Fake Siblings | Secret Love & Realization | Reunion After Breakup

Gentle and restrained investment banking new elite × Sober and resilient financial reporter / 5-year age gap

The year Fu Yin was twelve, her parents died in a car accident, and she was taken in by the Lin family to be fostered.

Mr. Lin gave her a new school bag, and Mrs. Lin gave her princess dresses, but always reminded her late at night: "You must be sensible."

Only Lin Xu was different.

He taught her how to solve math problems and protected her from school bullies, but the day after he discovered her secret kiss, he left to study abroad.

Five years later, they met again. She was a financial reporter on an undercover assignment at a cocktail party, and he was an investment banking elite surrounded by admirers.

He blocked red wine from being splashed on her, his tone distant: "You should carry a recording pen for evidence. Didn't the Lin family teach you that?"

She smiled: "The Lin family only taught me not to covet what isn't mine."

"Including you."

Later, on a stormy night, she had a fever and spoke deliriously, kissing the vein on his wrist: "It's beating so fast here..."

At a family banquet, a marriage prospect mocked her for climbing the social ladder, but he publicly opened his household register: "Look carefully at the spouse column."

On the midnight balcony, she snatched the cigarette from his lips and took a deep drag: "Is this enough?"

He gripped her waist and pressed her against the glass: "Not enough. I'll teach you what it means to push your luck."

He never gave her just a roof; he gave her a sky where she could see the stars by just looking up.

In places she never knew, he loved her countless times.

Reading Guide: 1. Fake siblings (no legal, blood relation). 2. Both had a secret crush, neither was wrong, both are good people, special preference for the female lead.