The Grand Temptation (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 71
“Will you hold me?”
Her voice, thick with unshed tears, trembled faintly.
Instead of asking what was wrong, Jae Ho pulled Yuli tightly into his arms. As her body was enveloped by his warmth, her tumultuous emotions began to settle—though the pain carved by harsh reality didn’t simply vanish without a trace.
Her father’s words still echoed in her ears.
—”What if it had been Yu Ri?”
—”If it had been Yu Ri… things probably would’ve been different.”
Assemblyman Chae had always been strict with Yuli, yet endlessly gentle with Yu Ri. Ever since they were young, he had shown Yu Ri extraordinary favor.
At first, Yuli had understood it as natural—Yu Ri was the youngest, and having lost their mother at an even younger age than Yuli, she seemed pitiful. But that understanding shattered the moment Yuli learned Yu Ri’s biological mother wasn’t their late mother, but their father’s remarried wife.
Betrayed, Yuli had spent a long time deliberately avoiding Yu Ri. Only after much time passed could she finally accept Yu Ri as her sister again—but even now, she sometimes still felt a lingering distance. Especially in moments like this.
—”That girl isn’t as clever as you. She’s just a naive child.”
Even now, Assemblyman Chae described Yu Ri as a naive child. To him, that likely meant she deserved his constant, doting attention. But what about Yuli? Had she ever even been allowed a naive childhood?
After their mother passed away, while still just a middle schooler, Yuli had been dragged into election campaigns. Her father had expected adult-like thoughts and behavior from her ever since. While Yu Ri spent time eating tteokbokki and gossiping with friends, Yuli sat in the campaign office, forced to read aloud speeches handed to her by aides.
Back then, she’d believed that was simply how things had to be. She’d even thought it a blessing—better than being left alone at home without a mother, at least she could stay by her father’s side. That was, until she discovered Assemblyman Chae’s affair with Aide Ahn.
“Huh.”
Yuli exhaled deeply and buried her face into Jae Ho’s chest.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
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