After the Brother I Forced to Love Me Lost His Memory

When the real daughter returns to the family, Qu Shang, who had been raised in the Marquis's household for over a decade, becomes an awkward fake daughter overnight.

Afraid of becoming a burden and making people resent her, Qu Shang sets her sights on a poor scholar sitting for the imperial exam, hoping to marry him and gain a respectable reason to leave the Marquis's household.

Unexpectedly, the scholar becomes entangled in a criminal case. Qu Shang stakes her reputation to vouch for him in court, angering the powerful and tarnishing the Marquis household's name.

In the deep, solemn ancestral hall, incense coils through the air. The young man seated at the side of the elevated shrine has a shadow falling across his features, veiled in hazy white smoke, his expression cold and still.

He lowers his eyes indifferently and pronounces his judgment in a voice like jade beads falling onto a jade plate, as if it means nothing to him. "Then remove her name from the family register."

After the crowd disperses, the ancestral hall falls silent. Qu Shang gazes from afar at the man on the dais, her eyes cold and damp with tears. "Why would you do this, Brother?"

The young man descends the steps at an unhurried pace and stops before her. He grips her chin, forcing her to look up, then traces her jaw with his cool fingertips. A fierce, obsessive longing surges in his eyes, almost madness. "Shangshang, I thought you knew."

[He is filthy and despicable, vile and base, harboring improper desires for his own younger sister. He will keep her confined in a tiny place, always within his reach.]

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After her name is removed from the family register, Qu Shang becomes a distant cousin lodging in the Marquis's household.

No one knows how she and the man who was once her brother carried on their secret affair.

Through countless nights filled with the chirping of insects, her brother's cold breath sweeps over her lips and between her teeth, stealing her breath.

Later, Qu Chengxi loses his memory, and Qu Shang finally finds the chance to set their twisted relationship back on the proper course.

She is cautious and deferential by his side, doing her best to maintain the illusion of a loving brother and sister, and hoping only to gain her brother's permission to marry out of the family and sever all ties with the past.

She fails to notice the growing darkness in her brother's eyes.

On the day she returns to visit her family, her brother, who has lost his memory, stays overnight in her bedroom. The moment he sees her, he pulls her behind the bed curtains without a word.

Desire burns in her brother's eyes as his knuckles hold her trembling shoulders and neck in place.

"Shangshang, I regret it."

Qu Shang stares at him in terror, tears in her eyes. So her brother hasn't regained his memories, yet he still intends to force himself on her...

Later, Qu Shang leaves and rekindles her relationship with the scholar.

But after only a few peaceful months, the man who should have been a thousand miles away in the capital comes looking for her.

Black armor surrounds the small courtyard, and torches blaze. The man, now aware of everything, steps inside over blood and severed fingers scattered across the ground. He looks down at her, coldness in his eyes. "Shangshang, your brother is taking you home."

[If little sister won't behave, then drag her back and teach her all over again.]

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At first, all he wanted was for her to follow the rules, marry peacefully, and enjoy a long life in good health.

Later, unable to restrain his feelings, he schemes and uses every means at his disposal to keep her by his side.

Note: 1. The male and female leads are not related by blood, and by the time their relationship develops, they are no longer on the same family register.

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Currently updating: Compelling a Virtuous Woman to Become a Concubine

Chen Qianhui transmigrates to another world and becomes the least notable cleaning maid in the Duke's residence.

She works hard to save enough money, planning to leave the household one day and make a living running a small business in Jiangnan.

Little does she know that the Old Madam takes a liking to her for her respectful, trouble-free nature and intends to give her to the Eldest Young Master as a bedchamber attendant.

Chen Qianhui has no desire to serve the Eldest Young Master.

She buys back her freedom, rents an ox cart, and leaves the residence.

Halfway there, the usually refined and aloof Eldest Young Master blocks her path. "Since Yunshuang doesn't want to be my bedchamber attendant, how about becoming my mistress instead?"

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Pei Huaizhen returns victorious from the northern frontier, in need of someone close to take care of him.

He remembers Yunshuang, the cleaning maid in the Old Madam's courtyard when he left home years ago, and is willing to offer her this chance to change her fate.

But the lowly maid runs away from him again and again, even going so far as to drug him.

Furious, Pei Huaizhen takes her back. "Now that you've become my concubine, you still want to be with other men?"

He uses force to crush her spirit and teach her how to behave as a servant and how to please a man.

But in the end, Pei Huaizhen is the one who breaks down, kneeling on the ground and begging her to be his wife.

The lowly woman he once looked down on walks away without even turning back, vanishing from his world for good...

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At first, he sees her beauty and wants to make her his bedchamber attendant.

Then he sees how obedient she is and wants to take her as a concubine.

In the end, he kneels before her, begging her to become his wife.

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(An extra scene)

After Chen Qianhui dies, Pei Huaizhen raises their child alone. He neither marries nor takes concubines, content to live as a widower.

One day, his young son goes missing. In a panic, Pei Huaizhen sends people everywhere to search for him, and at last finds the boy outside the Princess Royal's residence.

The little boy is spotless, his belly round from a good meal. He shows none of the distress of a child who has gone missing. Instead, he beams innocently. "Father, I saw Mother."

Pei Huaizhen feels a tightness in his chest, but assumes the child is making things up.

After all, over the years, various noble families have sent women who resemble Chen Qianhui to ingratiate themselves with the boy and curry favor with him.

Pei Huaizhen despises such behavior.

Until one day, the emperor hosts a banquet for his officials to formally celebrate finding his long-lost daughter.

Pei Huaizhen stands among the assembled officials and bows respectfully.

A gentle, melodious voice from the seat of honor tells them they may rise. It is soothing to the ear.

Pei Huaizhen's heart jolts. Before he can think better of it, he looks up and meets the gaze of the face that has haunted his dreams, a face that has brought him both pain and hatred.

The child at his side tugs at his hand. "Father, that's her. She looks exactly like the one in the painting."

The woman he searched for in vain for years has become the exalted Princess Royal.

# A sharp-witted, resilient, optimistic transmigrated woman × a patriarchal, feudal-era powerful minister

# Soapy, indulgence-driven, everything goes

Theme: Be resilient and unyielding.