Stealing Someone's Wife

Everyone in the prefectural city praised Wen Yun, the eldest son of the Wen family, as the most gentle and upright of men, disciplined and courteous, bright as the moon. Then he lured his childhood friend’s younger brother into bed.

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No one knew that the radiant, impeccable Wen Yun had an embarrassing private affliction. He suffered from a strange illness: for several days each month, his body would grow unbearably hot and his desires surge. Wen Yun searched through ancient texts and medical books and secretly consulted every renowned physician he could find, but no one could do anything about it.

As he grew older, the illness worsened. Whenever it struck at night, Wen Yun would be tormented until his bedding was soaked, his mind clouded and his composure in tatters.

After waking one time, Wen Yun decided he could not go on enduring it like this. He came up with a good solution: find a man to help him through his period of passion. He just had to be careful not to get pregnant.

There were two suitable candidates: the two sons of the Wen family, to whom he was betrothed. Wen Yun looked at the Wen family’s eldest, who was upright and proper and had been praised since childhood, then at their second son, who spent his days lounging around and doing nothing. Without hesitation, he chose the younger one, who looked silly and easy to fool.

Wen Yun had concealed their affair flawlessly. Unfortunately, the younger brother’s rebellious phase came late. After two years, he suddenly refused to keep going, and several times he nearly gave them away. Headache pounding, Wen Yun had no choice but to end things with him and look for another suitable younger brother.

Who could have guessed that Wen Ruzhuo would storm into the Wen family home and throw a tantrum in front of their elders?

“You can’t break off the engagement! I’m carrying your child!”

What an idiot!

Wen Yun’s forehead throbbed with anger. At last his vision went black and he fainted. The physician felt his pulse and offered repeated congratulations. “The baby is three months along.”

Wen Yun: The sky is falling.

Well, now there was no hiding it.

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Wen Ruzhuo had known since childhood that the Wen and Wen families had an engagement. It had nothing to do with him, though, because he had an older brother who was the pride of the Wen family and praised by everyone.

Watching his brother and his future sister-in-law compose poetry, play the zither and strategize over a game of chess, and find kindred spirits in one another, Wen Ruzhuo grew so annoyed that he avoided them, silently scoffing, “At least I’m not the one marrying him!”

When he was young and foolish, he had liked following Wen Yun around like a puppy. But Wen Yun was only gentle and proper in front of other people. With him, he could not even be bothered to pretend, bullying him and him alone from childhood onward. Now that he was grown, he naturally would not go out of his way to be near him.

He had resigned himself to the thought that Wen Yun would eventually marry into their family and become his elder brother’s wife. But one rainy night, Wen Yun lay helpless among warm quilts and embroidered silks, his snowy-white body flushed and damp, barely concealed. His brows were furrowed, his wet lips bitten, and a few sobbing moans escaped his throat.

He said, “Wen Ruzhuo, if you don’t want to, get out.”

It was always like this. Wen Ruzhuo felt bitter. He was taking advantage of how softhearted I am toward him!

Wen Ruzhuo put on a brave front. “Fine, I’m leaving!”

Then he turned around and pounced on him, gently worrying the snowy skin at the back of Wen Yun’s neck with his teeth. He said bitterly, “Would you do this to my brother too?”

A slap landed on his face. Wen Yun glared at him with watery eyes, panting. “So much... nonsense...”

This shocking affair had continued in secret for two years. Then Wen Ruzhuo’s elder brother, who had been away studying, was coming home. He was the one betrothed to Wen Yun.

Wen Ruzhuo tossed and turned, unable to sleep for a month. After going through dozens of military strategy books, he finally devised a brilliant plan to switch places.

*

After two years away, Wen Hanchen returned home having completed his studies, only to be told that his fiance had somehow become his younger brother’s wife?

Wen Hanchen: ?!?

[An elegant gentleman on the outside, a defiant and unruly rebel at heart, a beautiful, cunning bottom who spent his life hunting geese only to have one peck his eye out ✘ A purehearted, silly top who is thoroughly manipulated by his wife and manages to be clever only when it comes to stealing her away, using what little cunning he has against his own elder brother]

1. Male pregnancy genre, with original worldbuilding.

[Important] The top really is not stupid! [End of important notice] His intelligence is just completely outmatched by his wife. Yeah... exactly.

2. Both are each other’s first.

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Theme: Fools are blessed with good fortune.