Reborn as My Late Husband's Younger Sister

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Proud, brilliant genius and founder of a game company, female lead x pediatrician with a little martial arts skill, devoted husband and knight, male lead

He saves her; both lives are one-on-one and both have only ever loved each other. He spoils his little sister without limits x she pursues her big brother without restraint

Bai Lu and her husband are a model couple among their friends, with her bringing the money and him bringing the looks.

She envies her husband's happy family, fulfilling childhood, healthy mind, and gentle personality.

She hates her own miserable past, dark nature, and twisted love.

Then one day, her husband has a car accident. Crushed by the blow, she dies of a broken heart. When she wakes, she discovers she has returned to the age of six.

Six-year-old Bai Lu hugs her crumpled doll and, standing on tiptoe on a stormy evening, knocks on the door of her future husband's family. He is ten.

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Born into a family of doctors, Chen Tingli has always been the child other parents wish they had: gentle and proper, clever and hardworking, humble and courteous.

Especially compared with his beautiful, unruly, troublesome little sister, who is capricious and constantly getting into mischief.

People who don't know the truth often sigh, "How did the same family raise two such different children?"

Whenever that happens, the Chen parents are always too embarrassed to speak, while Chen Tingli smiles faintly and says proudly, "I spoiled her."

Chen Tingli pampers his unexpected little sister, indulging her every whim. If she asks for the stars, he'll give her the moon.

Only when she confesses her love for him at eighteen does he firmly reject her feelings.

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Bai Lu's biggest problem after being reborn is this:

Her husband seems to really think of himself as her big brother.

After being reborn, the male and female leads have no legal or blood relationship.

Content warning: The female lead is a bit of a jerk, no pushover, and has low moral standards.

-- Upcoming novel blurb: Bound by My Bewitching Ghostly Brother-in-Law

Born into a prominent clan, Lu Heng's mother is lowborn, and the clan head dislikes her. Lu Heng has to watch everyone's mood and live cautiously.

Fortunately, after she comes of age, she is married off to the legitimate son of a noble family from south of the river, allowing her to escape her clan.

Her husband is gentle, proper, and as graceful as jade. He respects and cherishes her, and they have a harmonious marriage. All of Jiankang envies her good match, and Lu Heng is often grateful for it herself.

She also pays more attention to her husband's neglected younger brother.

The younger brother is frail by nature, and people say he will not live to twenty. Like her, he is a poor soul abandoned by his family.

Yet he is also different from her.

Rumor has it that his beauty is bewitching and his looks ghostly. At banquets, he furrows his brow and clutches his chest, making everyone think Xishi has been reborn. Thus he earns the name "The Bewitching Ghost of Jiangdong."

Lu Heng pities him for losing his mother so young and often looks after him, fulfilling her duty as his elder brother's wife.

Her brother-in-law is obedient and sweet-natured, his voice soft and tender as he calls her sister-in-law, his words winding and lingering.

"Thank you, sister-in-law."

"I was born weak and lowly. Without your kindness, I would not know where I might be now."

"The storm outside is growing worse. Why not stay a little longer, sister-in-law?"

Only occasionally does Lu Heng feel that the way he looks at her is unusually clinging. Even when she wakes in the middle of the night, she cannot shake the feeling.

Then, in a sudden upheaval, her frail, boneless brother-in-law takes up a sword in his slender, pale hand and tears Jiankang apart, smiling as he stabs her husband through.

Yet he wipes the blood from his hand with a handkerchief, then extends it to her as she trembles in bewilderment before a mountain of corpses, his smile breathtaking:

"Sister-in-law, my brother is gone. From now on, I will protect you."

Later, people say that the young emperor who ascended the throne amid the chaos is born mad, able to decide life and death with a wave of his hand, yet every night he stands outside the tightly shut door of his gilded palace, pleading piteously for his sister-in-law to let him in.

Lu Heng only remembers that she hated him deeply before she died.

She doesn't know that soon after her death, the emperor followed her.

After being reborn, Lu Heng is plotting how to expose his wolfish ambition. But on the marriage contract exchanged in this life, his name is written instead.

The marriage is settled, and Lu Heng has no way to turn it around. She can only consider how to deceive him after the wedding and find a chance to escape.

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At first, Wang Li does not like his taciturn wife. He assumes she is a spy planted beside him by his family.

Gradually, he finds himself unable to sleep through a night without her.

Later, he has many dreams. In them, his wife becomes his sister-in-law, living in harmony with his elder brother, while he can only languish in jealousy night after night, unable to sleep.

In his dreams, his wife keeps her door shut for a long time and declares she will never see him again.

Fortunately, he wakes from the nightmare to find his wife sleeping soundly beside him.

He breathes a sigh of relief, thinking it was only a dream, but then discovers that his wife is plotting to escape him.

That won't do.

Wang Li toys with the plain sash in his hand, gives a low laugh, and looks at his innocent, bewildered little wife. His fingers suddenly tighten.

[Past-life bonus scene]

One day, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Wang family suddenly feels unwell at a banquet and nearly vomits. Her period has also been late for several months, so the eldest Wang son eagerly calls the family physician to take her pulse.

Lu Heng blushes, but she too hopes to conceive soon.

Unfortunately, the physician finds no sign of pregnancy.

The couple look disappointed. The eldest son still forces a smile and comforts her, making her feel even more guilty.

"A Heng, it's all right. I'll do my best tonight."

Lu Heng pretends to punch him, then falls into his arms. Their laughter reaches Wang Li outside the door, where he is anxiously waiting after his sister-in-law called for the physician.

His face turns pale and his lips tremble. His clenched fist leaves a line of bloody nail marks in his palm.

He loses his balance and bumps into the physician on his way back, spilling everything from the medicine chest.

Wang Li helps the physician gather the items and, while he isn't looking, steals a handkerchief: the one that had just rested on Lu Heng's wrist.

Through the long night, Wang Li can only hold his sister-in-law in his arms in his damp, feverish dreams with that handkerchief in his mouth.

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