SCRIPTED ROMANCE: Fake Dating My Irresistible Brother in Law
"It was just for show... until he kissed me like he meant it."
Lily Liang has always been the Liang family’s dirty secret—an illegitimate daughter used as a pawn. When she’s forced into an engagement with the elusive ghost heir of the Shulong empire, Lihyun Shulong, it’s just another gilded cage.
But Jinhai Shulong, Lihyun’s brother has other plans. Knowing his brother's love for another woman and to save his brother from a loveless marriage, he strikes a dangerous deal with Lily: pretend they’re in love and blow up the engagement. To go against what their parents had decided.
It’s supposed to be business. Nothing more.
Until every stolen glance and staged touch feels achingly real. Jinhai can’t stop craving the very woman he’s sworn to use, and Lily can’t tell where the lie ends and the truth begins.
If Jinhai gives in, he risks betraying his own blood and destroying them both. But if he walks away, he’ll lose the only woman he’s ever wanted—straight into his brother’s arms.
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Rain hammered the stone steps as Lily ran, silk dress plastered to her skin, heels skidding on slick pavement.
“Lily!”
Strong arms caught her mid-flight. Jinhai dragged her back against his chest, muscles taut beneath his drenched shirt, his breath searing her neck.
“Lily, I'm hopelessly in love with you,” he rasped. “Please, I need you. Don't go.”
She wrenched free, spinning on him, eyes blazing through a blur of rain and tears.
“Tomorrow, is the wedding Jinhai! Tomorrow is the day I marry your brother. Let me go—it’s too late.”
“It’s never too late,” he said, voice raw, water dripping from his lashes. “Stop pretending you don’t feel it too.”
“I don’t. I HATE you!” she screamed, each word breaking.
But Jinhai only stepped closer, cupping her face with trembling hands. His thumb brushed her tears, lost instantly to the storm.
“Your eyes,” he whispered, “say otherwise.”
And then he kissed her—wild, consuming, a kiss like drowning and breathing at once. Rain, salt, heartbreak, fire. And she kissed him back in vivid defiance, her fists clutching him when she swore she wouldn’t touch him... love him.
In the shadows, a figure watched.
Lihyun Shulong stood motionless, rain trailing down his face, jaw tight enough to splinter.
The storm wasn’t the only thing about to break.