After Marrying My Younger Sister Off to Someone Else

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Resilient, gentle beauty x austere, aloof powerful official

Ming Rong was conceived before her mother was abducted into the Wei household, so from the family head and mistress to all her brothers and sisters, no one in the Wei family liked her from childhood.

If not for her luminous elder brother, Wei Guanlan, she probably would not have lived to see seventeen.

She was grateful to him and always went along with his wishes, hoping only to earn a little of his affection.

She thought her elder brother cared for her as a brother should. She never expected he was only using her.

When the truth came out, she looked up at him in disbelief. "So, it was all just to use me?"

Wei Guanlan glanced at her and said coolly, "What else did you think it was?"

Ming Rong put everything on the line and gazed at Wei Guanlan from afar. "What if I already have someone I love?"

Wei Guanlan was silent for a moment. "It doesn't matter."

After a long while, Ming Rong finally spoke in a muffled voice. "All right. I'll marry him. That will repay you for your kindness to me, and bring everything to a proper end."

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At first, Wei Guanlan regarded Ming Rong as just one of several pieces on his chessboard. Having her marry in someone else's place was simply one ordinary part of his plans.

Until one snowy night, Ming Rong gently knocked on his door.

Snow clung to her long lashes, hesitation in her eyes. She looked just like the little sister who had once come to him for help.

This time, though, she had come to ask him for help with another man.

Wei Guanlan calmly listened to what she had to say, then gazed deeply at her. "Are you a daughter of the Wei family, or the wife of the Xiao family?"

Ming Rong quickly lowered her lashes and replied timidly, "But wasn't Yunlang the husband you chose for me, elder brother?"

Silence filled the room.

Ming Rong heard Wei Guanlan let out a very quiet laugh.

Later, Ming Rong would never forget how he stroked her face and gazed at her with burning eyes. "Then how about I choose another husband for you?"

"After all, how could the sister I raised make a wedding dress for someone else?"

[Reader's guide]

1. The heroine is not a virgin, the hero is. Happy ending. The leads are seven years apart in age. The male lead won't change, and the official pairing won't be broken up.

2. The leads are not related by blood, and this is known to everyone from the first chapter. Their relationship only progresses in earnest after they are no longer brother and sister in name.

3. Set in an alternate Southern Dynasty based on the Eastern Jin, where aristocratic clans hold sway and ministers are stronger than the emperor. The government system is modeled on the Eastern Jin, but this is not a fully researched historical novel. Some details are invented, and there are no real historical counterparts.

4. Please give the heroine room to grow. This is an ordinary romance, not a strong-female-lead story. At the start, she's just a seventeen-year-old girl, a high schooler's age. Her upbringing makes her sensitive and insecure early on. She can be emotional and won't always make perfect choices, so please don't judge her too harshly. That doesn't stop the hero from admiring and cherishing her, and loving her as the only one for him. I'll delete comments insulting the heroine.

Coming soon: "Tomorrow, We'll Divorce"

Marriage first, love later | Updates at 5:20 p.m.

When Zheng Wanyan and Lu Yun learned of their betrothal, both resisted it as if the sky had fallen.

Zheng Wanyan: Lu Yun is a notorious playboy in Chang'an, and his behavior is outrageous. The men in my family are all as refined as orchids and jade. How could I marry someone so frivolous?

Lu Yun: Zheng Wanyan? That frail Zheng girl? If I really marry her, she'll probably spend every day crying! I've won countless battles, so why should I put up with this?

But the imperial decree granting their marriage had already arrived. No matter how unwilling they were, they were made to bow and marry.

On their wedding night, as they drank the nuptial wine, Lu Yun accidentally pulled the red cord too hard, spilling wine onto the bodice of Zheng Wanyan's dress.

She was mortified, but Lu Yun called her "spoiled." In a fit of anger, she picked up a pillow and threw it into his arms, then kicked him out of the bridal chamber.

Word of the incident spread quickly through Chang'an's elite families.

All the young men Lu Yun usually dined and drank with took the opportunity to tease him.

Unwilling to lose face, Lu Yun declared firmly, "I'll find an excuse to divorce her tomorrow!"

Much later, someone asked Lu Yun why he still hadn't divorced her.

Lu Yun, by then thoroughly addicted to her: "It's not that I won't divorce her, I just need to take it slowly and plan it out. I have to come up with a foolproof strategy, so she won't make a scene."

Later still, Lu Yun's old friends could never get him to meet up with them.

Then they turned around and saw him massaging Zheng Wanyan's shoulders.

Friend: "Didn't you say you were going to divorce her?"

Lu Yun: "When did I ever say that? Don't make things up about me!"

That night, when they got home, Zheng Wanyan looked at him with a sweet smile. "Oh, you want a divorce?"

Lu Yun skillfully drew her into his arms. "If we really divorced, who else could take such good care of you?"

Clever noblewoman x unrestrained young general

Theme: Love means cherishing one another.