Stealing My Brother's Wife

A mad dog of a powerful minister who commands the wind and rain × a gentle, strong-willed beauty Possessive pursuit | Devoted love, a love story about growing up Bonus chapters are being updated. My ongoing novel, Two Years into Marriage, is also available in my author page. Give it a try. My upcoming novel, The Jade Mirror Stand, is a pseudo-incest story. I'm gathering readers and writing the manuscript. The blurb is below. Please add it to your reading list, dear readers. After her family falls on hard times, Shen Yi and her husband seek refuge with his uncle, the grand tutor to the emperor. Grand Tutor Xie holds great power and rank, and welcomes them into his home. Her husband is simple by nature, but Shen Yi sees things clearly. He has no official position and little standing in the Xie household. She takes care with everything and treads cautiously, hoping her husband will pass the imperial exams soon and earn them a measure of freedom. Fortunately, her husband's cousin, Xie Zhiyu, is the son of the grand tutor. He studies diligently, is well-read, and is the youngest and most promising member of the Hanlin Academy, with a bright future ahead. Though Xie Zhiyu is taciturn, he cares about his cousin's studies and makes a point of visiting the courtyard to tutor him whenever he returns home. Shen Yi is deeply grateful. She often grinds ink for them and takes care of the household chores. One day, she happens to hear Xie Zhiyu mention that he's hopelessly in love with a woman who won't return his feelings. To repay his kindness, she sincerely offers him advice, hoping to help him find a good marriage. Xie Zhiyu gazes into her glass-like eyes. His normally cool eyes hold a faint smile as he agrees. Later, Shen Yi's room fills with all kinds of indecent love poems, her wardrobe with clothes for every season in every color, and her jewelry box with dazzling gold hairpins and silver combs. Every last one of them comes from her husband's younger cousin. When she hears he's returned from court, Shen Yi can only claim to be ill to avoid him, afraid to face him. She returns to her room anxiously, only to find the man still in his official robes. He picks up her teacup and drains it, his expression like a tiger stalking its prey. “Yiyi, if you won't love me, then you'll have to hate me.” At the desk where her husband studies day and night, Xie Zhiyu tears away the last shreds of her dignity. “I'm the only one who can come in here.” In the hazy moonlight, red plum blossoms stand out against the snow, no longer austere, but lush and vivid. She cries until there are no tears left, with only one thought in her mind: if she could start over, she would never have followed her husband to this great Xie residence. Reader's Guide: 1. All male characters are sexually inexperienced. 2. Both leads have character arcs. The heroine begins as a dependent, clingy sort who lets others determine her fate. Read on to see how she grows. 3. The romance with the male lead and any intimacy between them begin only after their family ties have been severed. Upcoming novel: The Jade Mirror Stand. Please add it to your reading list. Adorable, doted-on little ray of sunshine × a gentle young gentleman who becomes possessive and steals his beloved sister away When her husband fathers a child with another woman, Yang Yourong asks for a divorce, but finds it difficult to make it happen. Her mother-in-law's cruelty, the neighbors' contempt, and her friends' attempts to talk her out of it nearly break Yang Yourong's resolve to divorce. Fortunately, Yang Yourong is very close to her older brother, Yang Jiangyun. He travels a great distance to come back and stand up for her. Yang Jiangyun is upright and proper, a gentleman known far and wide. He openly declares his support for his sister's divorce, and people praise the siblings as a model of mutual support. With her brother's support, Yang Yourong finally succeeds in getting a divorce, but the ordeal leaves her plagued by nightmares. Yang Jiangyun volunteers to stand guard at her door and keep watch through the night. At first, he simply stays outside her room. Later, he comes inside and sits beside her as she falls asleep. Then Yang Yourong dreams that warm, lingering kisses leave her struggling to breathe, and that her brother has marked her body all over. She dreams that in the morning, her brother rubs medicinal oil on her, wiping away every trace of what happened during the night. Terrified by her own improper thoughts, she no longer dares look at her brother and can only keep her distance. Until one night, Yang Yourong doesn't drink the calming soup her brother brings her. She pretends to sleep. When she awakens in a daze, Yang Jiangyun is holding her close and kissing every inch of her. Beside them lies the wedding veil she lost during her first marriage. Her brother, usually so proper and proud, looks at her as she wakes. He doesn't stop. Instead, he bites her lower lip with reverent greed and declares, “Yourong, call me your husband.” Reader's Guide: 1. The female lead has prior sexual experience, while the male lead is chaste. The heroine is doted on by everyone. This is a sweet romance. Theme: A life of freedom.