How Does One on the Ruthless Path Steal His Brother's Wife?

Also titled My Brother-in-Law, Open Up, It’s Your Brother. Currently updating with the rankings; I won’t abandon this story, so feel free to invest!

[Hard-of-hearing, honest woman x seemingly aloof but truly wicked, flamboyant madman] The heroine has no prior experience; the hero does. Love at first sight on his side only. The second male lead takes the top spot.

Qi Mingshuang fell for his junior brother’s Dao companion, a quiet, withdrawn woman.

The first time he saw Pei Jing, her head was bowed low.

Born with impaired hearing, she couldn’t make out what people said if they spoke too quickly, and always needed them to repeat themselves several times before she understood. A few casual teasing remarks from his junior brother were enough to make her ears turn crimson with embarrassment, revealing the half of her face hidden behind her veil. She was quiet and gentle, yet strikingly beautiful.

His junior brother, Liu Zhao, was only mediocre in cultivation, but had a warm and likable disposition. The two of them bickered and argued in their daily life, but he would always humble himself to comfort and indulge her. In the eyes of outsiders, they were the perfect loving couple.

One fleeting glimpse was all it took for that flash of white to haunt Qi Mingshuang’s heart and mind. She appeared in his dreams every night, impossible to forget. His obsessive thoughts nearly drove him mad. Unable to control himself, he fled in panic, traveling overnight to the North Sea to enter seclusion, hoping only to put an end to his feelings.

And so he was gone for three years.

When the three years were up and he returned, everything had changed.

After her Dao companion’s death, Pei Jing packed her things alone, planning to leave the immortal mountain where she had lived for so many years and return to the mortal world to live in seclusion.

She had always been frail, with an incomplete cultivation and only a smattering of ability. If she hadn’t wanted to follow Liu Zhao and accommodate his cultivation method, she would never have stayed so long among the immortal sects.

In the past, Liu Zhao had always been there to catch her when she fell and shield her from every storm.

Now she was alone, with no one to rely on. The rules of propriety bound her tightly, and everyone assumed she ought to remain a widow, keep to herself, and spend the rest of her life in silence.

But the one person who had once avoided her as if she were a plague, her senior brother Qi Mingshuang, suddenly began treating her with extraordinary attentiveness.

He was a lofty Nascent Soul cultivator who had established his own sect, powerful enough to reshape the path of cultivation with a wave of his hand.

And she knew only a few rudimentary movement techniques, barely enough to defend herself. The difference between them was like heaven and earth.

But in the stillness of night, facing her empty house and her increasingly frail body, she knew that without cultivation, she would die young. For the first time, she began to entertain a rebellious thought.

She had been timid and obedient all her life, dependent on Liu Zhao and resigned to fate, never once living for herself.

This time, she wanted to be daring and indulge herself.

Liu Zhao had given her his sincere love, but he couldn’t give her a future, complete her cultivation, or offer her a secure path to immortality.

But Qi Mingshuang could.

Vast, abundant spiritual energy gathered in Qi Mingshuang’s palm. “Your man is too weak to open your meridians, isn’t he? I can.”

That boundless spiritual energy was right within reach, something Liu Zhao could never have given her in his entire life.

Pei Jing clung to his neck and leaned toward him. She would use Qi Mingshuang’s power to complete her cultivation, break free of her fate, and truly live for once.

Please note before reading: The heroine has no prior experience; the hero does. The heroine and her junior brother once truly loved each other.

The heroine becomes very strong later on, but she is no saint, and she will rely on the hero.

None of the main characters are morally flawless, so please be kind to them.

Theme: Persevere and never give up