[Possessive Pursuit | Brothers Love Triangle]
Cunning beauty x unruly, brutish elder brother x obsessive, twisted younger brother
Zhao Ling despises his sister-in-law.
She's a rebel wanted by the court. She has bewitched his elder brother and will bring disaster sooner or later!
And yet, in countless feverish dreams, Song Mingxu trills like a sorrowful songbird, her pale wrist reaching out from behind the bed curtains to grasp him as he sways with his eyes shut tight.
"Little uncle, look at me."
"Coward. Do you really hate this face, or are you just unable to covet your brother's wife?"
He scoffs.
He goes out for a walk at night and stumbles upon her being held captive and kissed. Her pupils reflect a face twisted with crazed jealousy.
As her elder brother lets out a satisfied sigh,
she parts her lips and says:
"Kill your big brother, and I'll be yours."
*
When his younger brother gets married, Zhao Chong returns with his troops.
Servants support the bride, who has clearly been drugged with a sedative. He presents his wedding gift, then suddenly throws a punch, ready to turn the wedding hall into a funeral hall.
"You mongrel, stealing another's place and disgracing the family!"
His younger brother is in a sorry state, his wedding robe stained with blood, yet he smiles and says, "She and I are the match made in heaven."
Zhao Chong pulls off the bride's veil, only to find that someone else has taken her place.
Zhao Ling's smugness vanishes. It was still her when she was carried into the bridal chamber.
Song Mingxu has run away again.
*
Song Mingxu once pushed her badly wounded lover into a river.
The authorities and bandits stood on opposite sides. He refused to show mercy, and she was just as hard-hearted.
Later, that man found her, abducted her, married her, and took revenge day and night.
To escape, she toyed with his younger brother, too.
Her days imprisoned by the brothers were unbearable, but luckily she stayed in touch with her bandit stronghold, and Song Mingxu vanished without a trace.
One day, a subordinate reported that the two men had come up the mountain to beg forgiveness.
The underlings cheered. "The Zhao family has two fine young men. One can be beheaded to sacrifice to the banner, and the other can be the third-in-command's live-in son-in-law. That'll infuriate the court's pack of rotten scholars and incompetent generals. What could be better?"
She tore the calling card to shreds.
That night, a shadow slipped into the bed curtains and wrapped both arms around her waist. "Do you want to choose me for the sacrifice?"
A scabbard pushed aside the gauze curtains.
Song Mingxu sneered.
Outside the tent, a pair of defiant eyes looked up at her.
Note: While the heroine is married, she does not cross the line with the younger brother, and she is never legally married to two men at the same time.
Theme: Words of valor polish stone; high ideals reach the clouds
