Drawing the Hidden Edge

My next novel will be about twin brothers stealing a bride, titled The Substitute Husband Wins Your Heart. The blurb is at the end. If you're interested, visit my profile and add it to your collection~

[A scheming, sweet-faced noblewoman skilled in both medicine and martial arts x an alluring, handsome prince who plays the pig to eat the tiger | 1v1 | both virgins | happy ending]

Everyone knows that the Yun family has found their daughter, who went missing sixteen years ago.

They say the eldest daughter of the Yun family is beautiful, kindhearted, and blessed with miraculous healing hands, like a Bodhisattva reborn.

But no one knows that she is both a compassionate doctor and a merciless killer who always repays her enemies.

Yun Nuo returns to the capital, vowing to uncover the truth about what happened sixteen years ago.

But while pursuing the culprit, she stumbles upon the secret of Yu Bairu, a disabled prince.

This Prince Hao, who seems unruly and indifferent to the world, is actually a wolf who has endured in silence for more than a decade, waiting for his chance to strike.

She originally wanted to keep their paths separate, but every move she made had already fallen under his watchful eye.

If she can't avoid him, then she'll tear away his disguise herself.

*

Yu Bairu never imagined that one day a woman would hold a knife to his throat.

Her warm breath brushes his ear as she smiles. "Prince Hao, forgive me."

The blade grazes his neck, leaving a thin trail of blood.

What a ruthless, iron-hearted woman. Is she really the little miracle doctor with a heart of gold that everyone talks about? Doesn't seem like it.

At first, he watches her at every turn and stays on guard at every step.

Later, amid his airtight schemes, he saves a small corner of his heart for her.

He's willing to overturn the game he's spent years setting up and slaughter anyone in their way, all to protect her.

But he forgets one thing

She was never a vine that needed to cling to someone else to survive.

*

Dressed in red bridal finery, she enters the game of her own accord.

As the wedding procession winds down the long street, he rides out alone and abducts her.

"Are you crazy?" Yun Nuo gasps.

His lips curl into a smile, but his eyes seem to burn with hidden fire.

"From the moment I met you, I've already been crazy."

‖ She returns bearing a grudge, while he has long kept his edge hidden ‖

‖ A match for her in every way, they meet in the prison ‖

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The day Rong Wanqing got engaged to Wen Linyu, heir to the Marquis of Ding'an, all of Chang'an said they were a match made in heaven.

She had once seen him from afar during the Lantern Festival. The young gentleman had turned back beneath the moon, gentle as jade, truly living up to the saying, "A noble gentleman is like a finely cut gem, polished and honed." She was certainly willing to marry him.

But when she entered the marquis's household with a heart full of hope, she discovered that her husband wasn't quite as she'd imagined.

She didn't know that the man who married her wasn't Wen Linyu.

*

He was Wen Linyu's twin brother, the "shadow" the Wen family kept hidden in a dark room: a man with no name, no identity, and no self, whose sole purpose was to die in the heir's place if he ever faced danger.

On the eve of the wedding, Wen Linyu was unexpectedly gravely injured and fell unconscious. The Wen family couldn't afford to lose their marriage alliance with the Rong family, so his brother naturally took his place as heir to the Marquis of Ding'an and married Rong Wanqing.

He put on his brother's robes, imitated his brother's mannerisms, and obeyed orders to play Rong Wanqing's husband.

But he never expected that this radiant little wife, bright as the morning sun, would make him feel for the first time

That standing in the light could be so warm. He wanted to live openly too, and be her husband with dignity.

But Wen Linyu woke up.

*

Watching the way his younger brother and his wife got along, Wen Linyu felt jealous of the shadow he had kept beneath his heel since childhood for the first time.

He was nothing but his "shadow." Now that Wen Linyu had returned, the "shadow" should go back to where he belonged. And Rong Wanqing was supposed to be his wife, and could only ever be his.

Just as he wished, everything fell neatly back into place.

The only variable was Rong Wanqing.

"You're not him. Where is he?"

Her gentle, watery eyes were full of icy light when she looked at him. Wen Linyu's heart lurched, and he pinned her against the bed.

"Rong Wanqing, have you forgotten whose wife you are?"

Reading guide:

1. Twin brothers steal a bride. The male lead is the younger brother. While the marriage is in effect, the heroine has no romantic feelings for the older brother.

2. The heroine is clever, gentle, and sunny. She and the male lead fall in love after marrying first.

3. Happy ending, 1v1.

Theme: Hone your sword for ten years, then repay others in kind.