The Widow of My Older Brother

*A bewitching, coquettish beauty × a deeply calculating powerful official

Lu Xianchan was born into a family of wealth and refinement. Delicate, graceful, and alluring, she was nonetheless infamous throughout Yingtian Prefecture for bringing death to her husbands.

The man betrothed to her as a child died in infancy. Her childhood sweetheart, chosen by their parents, met an untimely death. The husband she married through a matchmaker passed away from a sudden illness on their wedding night.

To make matters worse, her husband had a powerful younger half-brother: He Yushu, Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

Lu Xianchan fled the city in a panic, hoping to lie low in a convent, but a line of Embroidered Uniform Guards stopped her in the street.

A man in a flying-fish robe emerged from the crowd. He lifted her chin with the tip of his embroidered spring saber. Its cold glint reflected her ravishing face as he said icily, "Take her away."

Lu Xianchan had no desire to guard her chastity plaque and live as the most despised widow in the He family. So she knocked on her brother-in-law's door, bringing him bowl after bowl of sweet soup.

He Yushu didn't even take them. One after another, the ice-blue porcelain bowls shattered outside the door. "Please leave."

Xianchan was furious. She put all her wiles into making Lord He... her willing captive.

People said He Yushu was sinister, smooth-tongued, cruel, and ungrateful. Surely he would have Lu Xianchan drowned in a pond, then fabricate charges to have her entire family executed.

No one expected that after three years of widowhood, Lu Xianchan would remarry in grand style and become the Commander's wife.

"My lord." Lu Xianchan curtsied, her eyes brimming with tears. "Aren't you afraid that I'm fated to clash with you, and that I'll bring you nothing but trouble..."

Commander He lifted his eyelids slightly and gently covered the mouth that could bring the dead back to life. He laughed softly. "Madam, you didn't say that when you were flirting with me."

He had spent his life alone and desolate. Only after meeting her did he learn what it meant to be swept into a storm of desire, to have spring bloom in the allure of a smile.

*Content warnings: 1. Both leads are virgins! Their romance begins only after they end their legal family relationship (grovels). 2. The characters are not perfect. Please don't read this with ideas even more conservative than those of feudal society, please QAQ.

Blurb screenshot from 2022-03-15

Theme: Take charge of your life and don't fear what others say