[Beautiful, wicked heroine + dark, powerful male lead at court + hypocritical, sweet-faced schemer second male lead + two men fighting over one woman]
“Bury him. Seal the coffin and weigh it down with stones.”
She goes from a gentle, obedient wife to a ruthless poisoness who kills her husband and seizes his estate.
Then, overnight, a dark power broker who commands the court and has waded through blood barges into her life.
He forces her to remarry and imprisons her in his arms, obsessive and mad.
Later, someone hides her away in a bamboo house in the mountains.
Ji Muchen storms in with a heavily armed force. “Jin Nian, just come back to my residence with me. I swear I won’t hold what happened before against you.”
The gentle, refined man shields her, smiling innocently. “My lord, she is my wife, in name and in fact, and she is carrying my child.”
“She won’t go back with you.”
Ji Muchen’s expression changes drastically. He points his sword at his rival. “You don’t get to decide that.”
The Second Young Master Ji sighs softly. “Do you really have to force Nian Nian to go back? Or do you want her to shoulder both households alone?”
[They are not biological brothers]
They know how to coax her and sweet-talk her. They both fight to win her over, and whoever makes the first move gets the heroine.
Is the second young master the male protagonist?