Jiang Chun the Incompetent

【Racing to wrap this up! Next book: My Little Sister’s Wish】 Jiang Yan hated Jiang Chun. He hated how she’d gotten together with his younger brother for money, climbed her way into the Jiang family, and still couldn’t behave herself, flirting with other men behind his brother’s back. He hated how all she had to do was cry with that beautiful, innocent face, and every man would soften toward her, utterly captivated. Until he discovered the secret between Jiang Chun and his younger brother… After that, there was no turning back. He was in too deep. After that day, what he hated most was that she only came to him cautiously when she needed help with some trivial matter. Then she would timidly call him “Big Brother.” It was as if she had completely forgotten what had happened between them. … No one expected that when Jiang Chun proposed ending her agreement with the Jiang family, Jiang Yan would come to her before his younger brother, Jiang Mingxu. His gaze swept over the thin “divorce agreement” in her hand. “The Jiang family has supported you for all these years. Haven’t you gotten anything out of it?” “…” She lowered her head and refused to speak. She had even taken off the plain ring she usually wore. Jiang Yan sneered and called her by her full name. “Jiang Chun. Do you want to divorce Jiang Mingxu, or do you want to cut ties with every one of us?” With nowhere left to run, she murmured, “Big Brother…” “Jiang Chun. If you dared to get involved with the two of us, you should know our family has never let anyone walk away halfway through.” Content warning: The heroine tears up the agreement because she wins five million in the lottery, not because she becomes a strong, independent female lead. The heroine has plenty of men with one-sided feelings for her. She is not a virgin, while the men are. There is lots of coercive marriage, domineering pursuit, obsessive devotion, melodrama, brotherly fighting, divorce and a long road to reconciliation, and other clichéd tropes. The heroine’s marriage to the younger brother is in name only. They are not actually married: the agreement was something the younger brother used to fool his family. The heroine was threatened and forced to agree to a fake marriage because of trouble at home. The brothers are both mixed-race. The younger brother has studied abroad for years, while the older brother is in China. Everything about their backgrounds is fictional and only loosely inspired by reality. The heroine is once again an honest, awkward, universally adored beauty: a gentle, fragile-feeling married woman. Besides the brother-in-law who is five years older than the heroine, there is also a younger man who is five years younger than her. Theme: Escape hardship and become your own person.