After Yuezhu became a widow, everyone around her kept trying to set her up with someone new.
They said she was gentle and kind, easy to deceive, and needed someone to rely on.
But Yuezhu knew they were all coveting her late husband's inheritance.
Then, amid all the threats and enticements, Yuezhu suddenly brought a man home.
He looked exactly like her late husband, in both face and build. Some people cried out that a corpse had come back to life and needed to be burned and sealed away at once!
Yuezhu explained that the man was her late husband's twin younger brother. He had been badly injured while traveling abroad and had returned to recuperate, as well as help her handle the inheritance.
Until one of her late husband's friends came to visit, took Yuezhu by the hand, and asked in a hoarse voice,
"Yuezhu, who is he?"
"Why does he have Jiya's old wounds?"
*
Yuezhu was meek and submissive. Her family all said she'd spend her whole life being timid and miserable.
Then, in an accident, she accidentally sealed away her terrifying husband. He lay unconscious in the dungeon, but she couldn't sleep a wink.
Yuezhu wanted to run away, but the family treasury was protected by a ward. She couldn't take the money and disappear.
After weighing her options, Yuezhu erased her husband's memories, woke him up, and lied that she was his widowed sister-in-law.
Yuezhu knew the man before her well. He was cold, ruthless, cruel, and violent, a thoroughly rotten person. Yet she stayed by his side every day, caring for him without limits, as if losing her husband had left her with nothing to lean on and turned her into a parasitic vine that couldn't live without him.
Of course, Yuezhu also gradually led him toward breaking the ward on the treasury.
*
Jiya was gravely injured and had lost his memory. When he opened his eyes, all he saw was a woman.
Her eyes glistened, and her ink-black hair spilled over him like satin. She kept saying, "Thank goodness. You're awake."
She was his widowed sister-in-law. He and his deceased elder brother were twins, and she was his only family left in the world.
...Family? Jiya felt nothing. To him, everyone was just a lump of flesh, and this woman was no different.
But there was always a sickening thought in his mind.
Why did he want to wrap his arms around that waist, bite those lips, and hold her in an embrace that would keep them together forever?
He confessed his thoughts calmly. Yuezhu wasn't alarmed when she heard him. Instead, she gazed at him again with those dewy, innocent eyes.
"How could that be? We're sister-in-law and brother-in-law."
By day, he held her wrist. By night, he was plagued by lewd dreams, and the revolting thoughts nearly drove him mad.
At last, Jiya opened the mysterious treasury, just as she wanted.
When it opened, two things happened.
First, there was nothing inside except a spell that could restore his memories.
Second, Yuezhu vanished the next day.
Blurb archived on September 20, 2026
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