I Lost My Memory After My Ex-Husband’s Brother Forced Me to Marry Him

Next up: After Humiliating the Cold and Aloof Chancellor. The blurb is at the very bottom.

Zhen Yi and You Jiayu, the second son of the neighboring household, were childhood friends. When they reached marriageable age, their feelings naturally blossomed, and they got married.

After they married, Brother Jiayu was gentle and considerate, caring for and cherishing her in every way. In their seven years of marriage, they had children, a boy and a girl.

The only thing was that, in certain matters, he had an inexplicable possessiveness and desire for control, as if he wanted to tear her apart and swallow her whole.

But didn't she know her own husband's nature? He was so kind he wouldn't even step on an ant.

Since marrying her, he had helped many people, and had even brought home a disabled little mute he found on the road, for them to care for together as if the child were their own.

Compared with his brother You Huaijin, who recognized none of his kin and was vicious to the extreme, Jiayu was like heaven to his brother's hell!

Perhaps it was just her imagination... Zhen Yi told herself.

Until she found a little finger in You Jiayu's study.

She recognized it. When You Jiayu was little, he had injured his little finger for her, and one of its bones was shorter than other people's. The bone in this finger was short too.

But just last night, he'd used that very little finger, with its missing piece, to slip between her teeth and tongue...

How could the injury be in exactly the same place?

That night, while You Jiayu was bathing, she pulled a battered book from beneath his pillow. When she opened it, she found more than ten pages covered in dense writing. She didn't recognize the unfamiliar handwriting.

"She climbed through the window to see him again. The two of them sneak around doing who knows what every day. Maybe they're having an affair.

Disgusting..."

"He told Father he wanted to marry her, and Father actually agreed. He's going to propose tomorrow.

That bastard Father actually approved of his concubine-born younger brother marrying the daughter of his enemy... Old beast. Has he forgotten how Mother died? A whole nest of snakes and rats."

"Good. Once she marries into the family, I'll kill her within a month."

"She got drunk and mistook me for him. She held me for a long time.

She rubbed her stink of alcohol all over me. Disgusting. The clothes need to be burned."

"Do I really look so much like him? Apart from both being men, how are we alike? Next time she says that, I should kick her out.

But tonight... I knew she was unfaithful to him. Their relationship isn't all that strong after all. So it doesn't matter who she has an affair with. It was me tonight. Tomorrow night, it could be any man."

"She said she got drunk again last night and accidentally mistook me for her husband.

...I might as well treat everything she says like crap. Clothes don't fall off by themselves. She knows perfectly well whether it was an accident or on purpose."

"She moved out of the household with him. Before she left, she came to see me and begged me to forget what happened that night and not tell him. She said she was truly sorry to him, and to me as well.

..."

"She keeps saying she's sorry to him. Then I might as well kill him."

"I thought he looked a lot like me. How could that mediocre trash possibly compare to me?

But she just has to like ordinary men like that.

Imitating him is hard, and I don't even look like him. Luckily, she's an idiot. She didn't figure it out even after three years of marriage..."

...Didn't figure out what?

Zhen Yi was already furious. She turned to the next page, where several elegant characters caught her eye.

"Yiyi, the little mute slave who is always by your side is your husband."

*The female lead has had previous partners, while the male lead has not. The female lead was transmigrated into the story as a baby. The main story begins after she loses her memory.

A few possible trigger warnings:

1. The female lead has had previous partners; she is sexually unchaste, while the male lead is chaste. The ending is one-on-one.

2. The main selling points are an older brother stealing his younger brother's wife, coercive possession, one woman choosing between two men, and a rivalry between the men. The plot is melodramatic and develops slowly.

3. The leads have an eight-year age gap, and neither is a perfect character. The younger brother is a eunuch, though he wasn't one when he and the female lead were married.

After Humiliating the Cold and Aloof Chancellor

Li Tianxiang transmigrated into a power fantasy novel about a domineering hero, becoming the male lead's concubine.

Since she knew the plot, she quickly latched onto the male lead, the crown prince, and used every means at her disposal to become his secondary consort.

As for the cannon-fodder character in the book, the chancellor Pei Ruobai, she knew he was destined to die by the male lead's sword. So she took a fancy to his exceptionally handsome face and used her power to bully him, making things difficult for him at every turn. Knowing he loved someone else, she still forced him to fool around with her, spending her days tangled with him in bed.

Pei Ruobai hated her to the core and vowed that one day he would repay her tenfold for the humiliation she'd inflicted on him.

Li Tianxiang didn't care at all. She treated him even worse, deliberately causing the deaths of his family and friends and leaving him no choice but to submit beneath her skirts.

With the day of the crown prince's ascension drawing near, Li Tianxiang put herself in a good mood and happily prepared to rise from a lowly branch to become a phoenix, looking forward to the crown prince making her empress.

But Pei Ruobai stormed into the Eastern Palace, bringing the crown prince's corpse to see her.

That day, his eyes bloodshot with rage, he gripped her by the throat and shoved her onto the bed. He cursed her for being wanton and depraved, for having a heart like a snake or scorpion, for indulging in delusions, and for driving him into the twisted state he was in now...

She did become empress, but she became Pei Ruobai's empress.

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Pei Ruobai was born into a family of wealth and status. His ancestors had been benevolent and charitable for generations, and he followed their example, doing good deeds from a young age.

At sixteen, he met the adopted daughter his mother had once raised, who was also his younger sister.

By then, she was close to death, unable to move at all. The only difference between her and a corpse was her beating pulse and the last warmth in her body.

His mother refused to acknowledge her, and the girl's father wanted nothing to do with her either.

He brought his younger sister back from the estate, tended to her with great care, and depended on her as they kept each other company.

Alas, though people may have feelings, Heaven had other plans. In the end, his sister stopped breathing and passed away.

He copied Buddhist scriptures for his sister for several years, until he met Li Tianxiang, a woman whose face was indistinguishable from his sister's.

Perhaps she was just a clown imitating his sister. Perhaps she was his sister's evil spirit, left behind in the world. Perhaps... she was the adorable younger sister in his heart.

No matter what, he had to hold on to her and keep her captive, even if she was a madwoman, even if she was a wicked woman.

It wasn't her fault that she had become the way she was.

It was his...

*The female lead has had previous partners. One-on-one romance. Fake incest. The female lead is the male lead's younger sister. While their relationship was ongoing, the female lead and male lead did not develop romantic feelings for each other.

In the first half, the female lead coerces the male lead into a relationship. In the second half, the male lead forces the female lead into marriage.

There is no groveling arc for the male lead. The male lead is well-trained by the female lead.

Theme: Love can dispel hatred.