[Regret and a desperate pursuit + gender-swapped stand-in story + reforming a spoiled wastrel]
The most talented woman in Chang'an bears a legitimate son for the city's most notorious wastrel.
But while she's in labor, he sleeps with her half-sister,
insisting all the while that he intends to make the younger woman his secondary wife.
She asks for a divorce and has their newborn adopted by his late elder brother.
At last, his eyes bloodshot, he demands, “You're the refined young lady my elder brother once said he wanted to marry, aren't you? What have you been taking me for these past two years?”
Keeping the promise she made to his deceased brother, she takes on the burden of managing the General's household.
Consumed by jealousy, he says, “All you ever think about is my elder brother! Is there even the slightest place for me in your heart?”
He sees her admired by the heir, pursued by princes, and valued by the Crown Prince.
At last, he can't take it anymore and begs her in tears.
“Look at me closely. I may be a wastrel, but at least I look a little like my elder brother.”
He offers her his heart, but she pays him no mind.
Finally, he goes mad. Even if it costs him his life, he will have her heart!
I was attracted by the introduction and read more than forty chapters. The plot is novel and the pace of the story is not sloppy. The cp has a sense of contrast (talented woman x dandy). The heroine Liu Wanqing is very happy with the hero Yun Yi's eldest brother Yun Che who died young. She is willing to marry the hero for his eldest brother. Because the hero wants to marry the heroine's concubine as his equal wife, the heroine quickly adopts the eldest son after giving birth to her eldest son, which makes the hero very angry haha. The heroine's character is not perfect, but I think it is more realistic. I don't see any merits in the male protagonist so far. He is truly a playboy. I look forward to the subsequent development of the story. The author will do his best to update it~ p. S. This article is not a clean one. But the plot is really fascinating
The author should add a side story so that the heroine and the eldest brother can be happy.