I Eloped with My Betrothed's Brother

The only person Zhou Nanxuan ever wanted to marry was his younger brother's betrothed, Yu Ye.

Everyone said Yu Ye was dull-witted and willful, with nothing to recommend him except his pretty face. He wasn't good enough for Zhou Nanxuan's younger brother.

But Zhou Nanxuan thought Yu Ye was lively, adorable, and kindhearted. His looks were the least of his many good qualities. If anyone wasn't good enough, it was his younger brother.

He had secretly loved Yu Ye for a long time. Thanks to local custom, he volunteered to keep watch over him and finally got the chance to spend time with him again.

According to local custom, betrothed couples could not see each other for the month before their wedding. Instead, a blood relative sent by the other family had to look after them.

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Yu Ye had always been spoiled, and even after transmigrating into a book, nothing changed.

The one problem was that he was supposed to marry the domineering male lead, whose harem was bigger than the number of meals Yu Ye had eaten, and eventually die at the hands of one of the women in it.

He tried to fight back, but his elders refused to call off the engagement on a whim. They confined Yu Ye to the house, half by force, and followed local custom by sending the male lead's older brother, Zhou Nanxuan, to keep watch over him.

Zhou Nanxuan barely appeared in the original story. Yu Ye only remembered the brief assessment it gave him: “A flawless jade with a flaw, yet no common stone. A man apart from the rabble of the world.”

Perhaps out of love for his younger brother, Zhou Nanxuan extended that affection to Yu Ye as well. He took care of everything himself, never relying on servants.

As Yu Ye watched Zhou Nanxuan lower his head to put socks on him, a plan suddenly came to mind.

He tried to seduce Zhou Nanxuan into helping him flee the wedding, but the man always seemed so dispassionate, as if nothing concerned him.

Yu Ye wasn't sure it would work, but he gave it everything he had. To his surprise, it took only a moment to make Zhou Nanxuan switch sides.

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As they spent more time together, Yu Ye came to think of Zhou Nanxuan not only as a good person, but as an older brother. He always called him “big brother.”

Until one day, the Zhou family caught them together, and the family patriarch stared at them in fury.

Zhou Nanxuan stepped in front of Yu Ye, whose face had gone deathly pale with fear, and said calmly, “I love him. I ask the family head to give us your blessing.”

Yu Ye: “What? Weren't we as close as brothers?”

A devoted, restrained, gentle top X a beautiful, adorable bottom who's a little bratty and doesn't realize how seductive he is

One-on-one romance, both leads have only each other, happy ending

The top has a hidden identity and is no pushover

Theme: Perseverance always pays off