A SUBSTITUTE BRIDE

She screamed in shock as a boy in a white shirt grabbed her left hand.

She was hanging in the air from the cliff.

She was still holding the fig in her right hand.

She looked up at the boy, who happened to have his back to the light. The sunlight that day was blinding. She couldn’t make out his features, only that he was wearing a white shirt.

She wanted him to let go, but Brother White shook his head, not wanting to let go no matter what. He continued to cling to her.

Even though his hand was cut by a tree branch and blood stained his white shirt, he didn’t let go.

At the time, she was so young. She just gave in and passed out.

When she woke up, her grandfather had already taken her home. She handed him the fig.

She had even asked her grandfather where Brother White Shirt had gone.

His grandfather then told him that when he returned, he saw White Brother in white clinging to his unconscious form.

White Brother was about to fall. Luckily, White Brother’s other hand clung to the tree trunk, so they were both hanging from the cliff.

Fortunately, his grandfather had come home early. If he had arrived a few minutes later, she and White Brother would have fallen off the cliff and disappeared without a trace.

White Brother left first because he had something to do. He left her a photo. She saved this photo later and drew a stone wall diagram!

When she woke up, she chased him with the picture, but she couldn’t find White Brother. On the back of the photo, she wrote a word “Chuan”.

Later, when she was seven, she met Brother Whiteshirt again.

She recognized him immediately because he was still wearing his white shirt and because his hands were as long and slender as she remembered.

At the time, she had called him “Brother White Shirt” without hesitation.Content property of NôvelDra/ma.Org.

However, he looked at her in surprise, his eyes full of confusion, as if he didn’t understand why she called him that.

Since Brother Whiteshirt was her savior, to thank him for saving her life, she asked him to come home for lunch.

Previously, she had thought that White Shirt Brother’s name might contain the word “Chuan”. She had misunderstood.

She wanted to give the picture back to Brother White Shirt, but he refused.

Brother Whiteshirt thought she liked nights out in An City, so he taught her how to draw. It took him months to complete the painting.

She was only seven at the time. As her paintings had caused a sensation, she had not wanted to be disturbed by these people. So she let her grandfather defeat them.

When she was thirteen, she took up the brush again and recreated the design of the stone wall.

When this stone wall painting appeared, her grandfather helped her sell the painting. This painting caused a sensation throughout the city of An.

During this period, she used this pen name to draw many paintings. However, they all depicted landscapes near the village where she lived. She also sold them for a lot of money. Grandfather had kept most of the money for herself.

When she turned eighteen, Nathan Dubois came back for her and said something particularly chilling.

– These two are meant to be together,” he said.

At that moment, she froze.

Shortly after, she learned that Nathan Dubois was her biological brother.

After that, she never painted again.

She had never expected Brother Whiteshirt, who had kindly rescued her from the cliff, to turn into a sinister and terrifying Nathan Dubois.

So she didn’t want to talk about the past at all and didn’t want to paint anymore.

The reason she took the brush to that charity auction banquet was purely to draw a line under the past. Moreover, she had also thought that even if she had to paint in the future, she would change her pseudonym.

Before knowing Nathan’s identity, he treated her very well and took care of her.

However, when she discovered that he was hiding his identity, she immediately realized that he had lied to her.