I Took Revenge for My Late Husband, Then Married His Brother

Brilliant, formidable undercover guard forced into a marriage x short-lived general with power over the court / taciturn, devoted younger brother

Substitute marriage, marriage before love, uncle and sister-in-law

General Weidao of the State-Guarding Army returned victorious, and the streets were thronged with people eager to catch a glimpse of him.

On Chang'an Street, Weidao rode in silver armor, his horse trampling fallen blossoms as his effortless grace won the hearts of countless young women.

But amid the crowd’s admiring gazes, Weidao keenly sensed one discordant stare, making him feel as if a thorn were lodged in his back.

As he looked around, an unidentified object suddenly flew straight at his face. Weidao drew his sword and struck

At a tall building beside the street, Jiang Qingyun, the culprit, leaned against the window and tossed a flower wreath at Weidao. It landed on him, and captured his heart as well.

Had he been overthinking it? Was she the one who had been watching him all along?

After their brief encounter, Weidao still had to enter the palace for an audience. He carefully put away the flower wreath, and carefully treasured the figure at the window in his heart.

Though they had only just met, Jiang Qingyun was his fiancée.

What he didn’t know was that the real Jiang Qingyun had died long ago. The person he had met was a nameless guard whom the Jiang family had chosen to take her place.

He married this guard. They bowed to heaven and earth, then entered the bridal chamber. From then on, Weidao recognized her as his one and only wife.

Until he died of poisoning and fell into the past, changing fate but unable to find his wife.

Because from beginning to end, he never knew her name.

She accompanied him in campaigns across the land, infiltrated enemy territory for him, and helped him purge the court, but her identity, age, appearance, and behavior...

Everything was false.

Or was the world without her the false one?

Weidao held his sword to his neck

If he died once more, could he see her again?

After her husband’s death, Jiang Qingyun inherited the title of Duke of the State-Guarding House. But the army’s loyalty was wavering, and political enemies watched her like hawks.

With no other choice, she decided to take Weidao’s younger brother, Weiyong, as her live-in husband.

After his elder brother died, Weiyong seemed to grow up overnight. He was utterly loyal to Jiang Qingyun, accompanying her from being surrounded on all sides to ruling the realm.

On the night she finally avenged herself, he held her in his arms. “My elder brother isn’t coming back. Are you still unwilling to let him go?”

Weidao, who had finally crossed the boundary between life and death: ???

Reader’s Guide:

1v2

Volume One follows the heroine’s growth, with Weidao as the main love interest.

Volume Two follows the heroine’s revenge, with Weiyong as the main love interest.

The extras feature a love-triangle showdown and accounts of the Weidao brothers’ scandalous goings-on in the imperial harem.

Weidao is dead, but love between the living and the dead never ends. As the saying goes, love’s origins are unknowable, yet once it takes root, it runs deep. The living can die, and the dead can live again. Of course a departed beloved can’t rest easy! But by the time you come back to life, your wife will have already pacified the realm and ascended the throne. Your younger brother is even about to steal the empress’s seat!

The focus is on revenge. The heroine’s ascension to the throne only appears at the end and in the extras.

Male leads are virgins.

Coming soon

A dramatic, looks-obsessed office drone turned foolish emperor x a cold and aloof public figure, sensitive in private

Jiang Liu had worked at this miserable company for five years, and had finally received her first independent assignment: writing a script for a popular emperor-themed game currently on the market.

She knew the project would just become one of hundreds of abandoned drafts that nobody would ever see, so she let her imagination run wild:

The tycoon in charge of this company, whose market value was in the hundreds of billions, would become the emperor’s illegitimate elder brother, who had to obey her every command despite disliking her.

Her favorite game developer would become a supremely talented prime minister, a genius with extraordinary literary gifts.

A senior colleague who was always looking after and helping her would become a gentle tutor who doted on the young emperor.

None of them had character illustrations anyway, so using them as inspiration would make writing easier.

After working through the night, Jiang Liu collapsed at her desk and dreamed she had transmigrated into the game, becoming a foolish emperor who married the crown prince, tormented her elder brother, and drove the prime minister to his death.

When she woke, she found tens of thousands of extra words in the document!

When she learned it wasn’t a dream, office drone Jiang Liu’s first response wasn’t panic or a trip to the psychiatric hospital. She was overjoyed:

A side quest was practically writing itself!

From then on, she slacked off at her desk by day and worked hard in the game world by night.

But why did the emperor’s elder brother, her boss’s stand-in, whose initial affection level she had set to negative, keep secretly growing fonder of her?

From the male lead’s point of view

Xiao Heng was actually an introvert, but work required him to attend all kinds of social events.

To hide his unease, he had no choice but to put on a cold, unapproachable front.

One day, he transmigrated to ancient times and became Jiang Heng, the emperor’s illegitimate elder brother.

This dynasty was strange: the emperor was a woman, and so were the emperor’s consorts, but nobody noticed anything unusual.

Xiao Heng noticed, but didn’t dare say a word. He nervously served the mercurial young emperor.

What was he supposed to do? He seemed to have fallen for that wicked, foolish ruler.

The good news: the emperor had transmigrated too, and she was his employee.

The bad news: Her Majesty was far too fickle.

Theme: A world where all are one