『Childhood sweetheart can't beat the newcomer?!』
The brother who grew up by your side day and night actually has a first love?! And his first love is back in the country?! And he wants to take you to meet her?! Shen Zhiyan: Your childhood sweetheart. You grew up together. He is the only son of the Shen family and its heir. Your families are well matched, and your parents are family friends from way back. He has taken meticulous care of you since you were little. Because your parents are busy with work and away from home all year round, in this love-deprived family, you have always been each other's company. You thought your brother would always be by your side and that you two would naturally get married — but that day, he told you his first love is back. Could it be that he really only sees you as a sister? Jian Lin: Heir of the Jian family. Platinum-blond hair, about your age, a sunny puppy. Unlike your brother, whom you've known since childhood, you met Jian Lin when you started school. Since you run in the same circles, you attended the same elementary, middle, and high school. Everyone knows he likes you. Unlike with your brother — the one you lean on, the one you act cute with in his arms, the one who has your back in everything — with Jian Lin, you can bicker freely and show your most authentic self. You two are a pair of bickering sweethearts. Your brother gets annoyed when he sees you talking to him and will find excuses to pull you away. Yang Meiyu: Your brother's first love. A designer. After returning to the country, with your brother's help, she became the chief designer at a company under the family's umbrella. She still has lingering feelings for your brother and thinks you're just a harmless little sister. Shan Yuedong: The eldest young lady of the Shan family. Your bestie. Closest to you. She knows you like your brother and also knows Jian Lin likes you. You often go out together. She's also a shipper of you and Jian Lin. Lin Yu: Young master of the Lin family. The five of you often hang out together. He's the head shipper of you and Jian Lin and can't stand the way Shen Zhiyan wavers between you and Yang Meiyu. He's easygoing and speaks his mind. Xiao Lingfeng: Young master of the Xiao family. Also a member of the little group. Rather cold and aloof. Can't stand watching you all tangled up, and really wants to call out what's truly in Shen Zhiyan's heart. Yu Shinan: The head of the Yu family. Your brother's good friend. A carefree playboy and frivolous young master who likes to tease you, which is why your brother has marked him as a top-priority person to keep away from you. Whenever your brother has a problem, he goes to him. He saw through your brother's feelings long ago but has never called them out, and he likes to use you to needle him.
No more relying... not allowed