That was the first time in seventeen years they felt each other's body heat so aggressive, as if trying to burn each other's souls to ashes.
It was already late at night when they got home. The house was terrifyingly desolate, with the air still carrying the musty smell after the downpour. Not long after entering, Yu An collapsed completely. He was like a burnt-out log, his cheeks flushed with an abnormal redness, his breathing heavy and broken.
Yu Han ignored her own slight chills. She gritted her teeth and helped Yu An into the room. As she trembled, trying to change his soaked clothes, her fingertips accidentally brushed against his burning chest. In that instant, her hand shook violently.
It was a man's body. Broad shoulders, a lean and taut waistline—all silently declaring that the label of "little brother" from last night had already been torn to shreds by him in the thunderstorm.
In the middle of the night, Yu An began to burn with fever, slipping into a hallucination-filled delirium.
Yu Han sat by the bed, constantly changing the cool towels. Under the dim, flickering bedside lamp, Yu An looked as fragile as a snowman about to melt. He kept turning his head, his dry lips parting, spilling out vague and heavy words.
"Han…… Yu Han……"
He didn't call her "sister." Those two words escaped his fever-cracked lips, carrying a heartbreaking tenderness and transgression.
"I'm here, An, I'm here." Yu Han held his restlessly waving hand, trying to soothe the frenzy.
Yu An suddenly gripped her hand tightly in return, with startling force, as if trying to crush their bones and blood together. He opened his eyes, but his gaze was unfocused, not landing on her face, but piercing through her, looking at some nonexistent void free of blood ties.
"Why…… born on the same day?" he murmured, a crystal tear sliding from the corner of his eye, instantly evaporated by the high fever. "If only a year later…… no, even just a day later…… then I could rightfully…… rightfully love you……"
Yu Han's heart felt as if it were being crushed by an invisible hand, aching so much she couldn't breathe. She looked at this face that mirrored her own, feeling her own forehead beginning to heat up—was it the fever he transmitted, or the long-hidden resonance deep in her heart that vibrated with his?
Almost instinctively, she leaned down, slowly approaching that face that nearly overlapped with her own. At such close distance, she saw his trembling long lashes. That familiar yet guilt-laden thrill surged again. She recalled Yu An's desperate eyes in the rain, and the possessive desire that seemed ready to destroy everything as he braced himself on the table.
"I'm sorry…… An…… I'm sorry……" she whispered, her voice carrying a resigned sob.
At that moment, Yu An suddenly pulled hard, yanking Yu Han toward him. Yu Han cried out in surprise, falling into his scorching chest. Yu An wrapped his arms around her tightly, like a drowning man clutching the last piece of driftwood.
"Don't go……" he whispered in her ear, his warm, chaotic breath spraying against her neck. "Just this once…… don't be my sister…… please……"
Yu Han felt all strength drain from her body in an instant. The dam that had held for seventeen years collapsed completely at this moment. She didn't struggle, but slowly closed her eyes, allowing herself to sink into this forbidden embrace filled with the scent of medicine and feverish heat.
Yet in the shadows outside the door, another gaze coldly watched it all.
Yu Xi stood in the darkness, watching the tightly embracing silhouettes in the room, identical in outline. The cynicism on her face had long vanished, replaced by a hollow mix of jealousy and despair.
She watched Yu An's hands holding Yu Han, her nails digging deep into her own palms.
"Yu An……" Yu Xi's voice was extremely low, like an echo from hell. "Why is it sister, and not me? We look exactly the same……"
Under this roof of shared genes, the cruelest truth surfaced: they all loved each other's mirror image, yet were destined to destroy this family in the process of finding themselves.
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