Forcing My Widowed Sister-in-Law to Marry Me

Complete! Ready to read! [Fake death | Dark, obsessive madman | Male lead reborn | Romance-focused | HE] A dark, obsessive younger brother-in-law × an honest, softhearted widowed sister-in-law. The heroine is not a virgin, while the hero is. [Heroine's Blurb] Wen Lanyin was born unlucky. She was widowed at a young age. On the day the Chen family was punished and stripped of its property, she remembered the little kindness her late husband had shown her and stayed behind to care for her underage brother-in-law, Chen Jianxuan. A sister-in-law is like a mother. She poured all her heart and strength into raising him, and at last lived to see him bring honor to the family. But after Chen Jianxuan returned victorious from the frontier, he changed. The once slender youth began looking at her with a dark, sticky gaze, full of an aggression that seemed impossible to wash away. His deliberate, ambiguous flirtations sent Wen Lanyin's thoughts spiraling, leaving her no choice but to keep her distance. When Chen family's Second Aunt came to arrange a match for her, Wen Lanyin had nowhere left to retreat. To put an end to his hopes, she could only agree to marry Zhao Song. Yet on the eve of the formal match, he personally rejected the proposal on her behalf. His transgressive ambitions were now plain for all to see. Even a rabbit will bite when cornered. Clinging to her role as his elder sister-in-law, she sternly reprimanded him in the ancestral hall. But he suddenly pressed closer. His bloodstained hands clamped around her waist and pinned her beside the cold offering table. [Hero's Blurb] In his previous life, the Chen family was stripped of its property because his father had remained neutral, and the whole family fell into ruin. Their relatives were all afraid of being implicated. Only his sister-in-law, Wen Lanyin, turned back and single-handedly raised him from childhood. He developed feelings for her that went beyond what he should feel, yet mocked himself: how could he possibly fall for his elder brother's widow? He helped Prince Yong ascend the throne, stained his hands with blood, and clawed his way out of mountains of corpses until he became a living King of Hell, wielding power over the entire court. Years later, he returned from the frontier only to find that she had long since remarried, and that her lonely grave marked the place where she had died young. Chen Jianxuan stared fixedly at her grave, spitting a mouthful of blood across her headstone. Only in the depths of his despair and resentment did he finally understand his own heart. Reborn in a new life, Chen Jianxuan found himself back at the frontier, amid a sky full of sand and wind. He returned to the capital ahead of time, several months before she was to receive a marriage proposal... [Before You Read] 1. The heroine is not a virgin, while the hero is. The heroine is four years older than the hero. 2. The hero is reborn with memories of his previous life; the heroine has none. 3. The hero is very bloodthirsty. 4. The heroine is deeply influenced by feudal values. She is timid at first, but has a character growth arc. 5. The story includes plots where she runs away and he pursues her, as well as fake death. It is written purely to indulge the author's preferences. Theme: Dare to pursue love.