My Brother and I Went on a Killing Spree

The new story, Take Your Brother's Wife, is currently being drafted.

[Preview]

Si Xinghe fell in love at first sight with Xie Lingzhou, heir to the Duke's household.

He was handsome, with the bearing of an immortal, and so rational and restrained that he hardly seemed alive. She was confident she could bring this lofty beauty down from his pedestal.

Soon, not long after, on a stormy night, he couldn't help kissing her deeply. Their teeth even bumped against each other.

The way he held her was as if he wanted to press her into his very bones.

But when Si Xinghe was sure of herself and thought he would gladly accept her when their elders discussed marriage,

he not only coldly rejected her,

but said she was too noisy and that he could never marry someone like her.

His words even hinted that she was frivolous.

That kiss had been nothing more than a man plucking a beautiful flower that had presented itself to him. If it offered itself, why not take advantage of it?

The woman he wanted to marry was someone who could quietly embroider in her room all morning without disturbing him.

Humiliated, Si Xinghe impulsively married his younger brother, Xie Yunzhou.

Xie Yunzhou might be a little slow and ordinary, but at least he would give up his life for her.

After marrying Xie Yunzhou, she wanted to settle down with her husband and dutifully be a good sister-in-law to him.

But then he gradually began to go mad, splitting into different personalities. One moment he babbled, imagining that his younger brother Xie Yunzhou was bullying her and insisting he had to save her. The next, he imagined that she was always trying to seduce him and wanted to lock her away in a gilded cage...

He even pretended to be a man with another identity.

By day, he was still the proud, aloof, rational and restrained heir to the Duke's household.

At night, his second personality took over, baring its fangs like a demonic monster and tormenting her by every means imaginable.

Only later did Si Xinghe learn that Xie Lingzhou really was ill.

Underneath that cool, rational, restrained exterior, as pure as an immortal's,

was a dark inner world, a hell beyond imagining.

[Main elements] The husband pursues his wife after a breakup, forced marriage, rekindled love, happy ending.

[Warning] The male lead really does have a mental illness.

Story blurb:

He was reborn in this life to take revenge. Wearing the skin of a Song family descendant, he wanted nothing more than to see every member of the Song family die, one by one, and descend into Hell, their names forever disgraced in history.

Song Xixi, the third daughter of the Song family scholars' household, had only recently been acknowledged as part of the family. She was vulgar, foolish, and crude. Who could have imagined that she would have such a twisted, perverse interest in him, her "younger brother"? Good, very good! Heaven was helping him!

He would lay trap after trap and lure her in. That way, the Song family would have another crime to answer for: incest between siblings!

But his plans went awry. She didn't take the bait, and she had already seen right through him.

He hadn't hunted her down. In the end, he became her captive instead.

Worse still, on a rainy, lingering night, he carefully held her in his arms while she was sick with a fever... His heart raced, and while she was asleep, he secretly, secretly kissed her.

A million curses!

She, she...

She was descended from his sworn enemy!

[Heroine: Every day, she stays awake around the clock, on full alert and ready to fight her younger brother...]

[Keywords]

* A story of redemption. The leads are enemies at first, then fall in love.

* The male lead is a dark, damp, vengeful madman, a black-lotus flower reborn. Later, the heroine will tame him.

* Not really siblings. The story is loosely set in the Southern Song period. Slow burn.

* This must be said three times: The leads are not blood relatives. They only get together after learning the truth about their backgrounds.

Theme: Letting go is being reborn