Reborn as the Widow of the Villainous Chancellor's Older Brother

My new novel, Why Did You Marry My Uncle?, is now live.

This novel: [Fake aloof beauty, actually a naturally wicked chancellor × weak, kindhearted, pregnant widow sister-in-law who runs away]

1.

Feng Yuzhen was unloved by her parents, and her husband died young. She spent her life timidly accepting whatever came her way. Even when her cold and distant younger brother-in-law asked if she would like to live with him, she refused out of cowardice.

She lived under the Cui family’s roof, working tirelessly for them for seven or eight years, only for them to accuse her of infidelity, tie her up, and drown her in a pond.

Only after her death did she learn that they were all living inside a storybook, and the protagonist of that story was her brother-in-law, Cui Jingkong.

Cui Jingkong appeared as refined and radiant as the moon, but was so clever he seemed almost demonic. In truth, he was cruel and violent, a complete hypocrite.

No one could have predicted that, after sitting the imperial examinations for the second time, he would achieve the top three honors in one sweep, rise rapidly after his name appeared on the honor roll, and become the most powerful minister in the court before he turned thirty.

For over a decade, while wielding power over the entire court, Cui Jingkong bent the law for personal gain and persecuted upright officials on a massive scale. The officials in the court were all too terrified to speak, and people privately reviled him as a “treacherous chancellor.”

2.

When Feng Yuzhen opened her eyes again, she found herself back at her husband’s funeral.

At the time, Cui Jingkong still wore shabby clothes and was only a licentiate. His expression was impassive, his eyes dark as black pearls that could ensnare the soul. His future bloodthirsty nature was still hidden as he asked her, “I wonder if Sister-in-law would be willing to live with me?”

This time, Feng Yuzhen clenched her sleeves, bit her lip, and nodded.

Later, during countless moments of rising desire that she was powerless to resist, she bitterly regretted this decision, which had been tantamount to letting a wolf into her home.

He pressed her at every turn, while she had nowhere left to retreat. Even if she fled thousands of miles, she could not escape his grasp, and in the end she could only let him claim her completely, to his satisfaction.

3.

Cui Jingkong was a monster devoid of emotion, incapable of feeling happiness, anger, sorrow, or joy.

Whether studying or serving as an official, every challenge came as easily to him as eating and drinking. He kept every variable under control, so he had no regard for life or death and sought only the bloody thrill of it all.

Except for the time when he had naturally assumed his widowed sister-in-law would obediently wait for him at home, so that after he came top in the exams, he could bring her to the capital and marry her as a matter of course

Then she ran away.

For the first time, Cui Jingkong tasted pain.

His timid, weak widowed sister-in-law, no different from most people in the world, was a foolish, unremarkable woman. Yet in the end, she became a rope around his neck.

All she had to do was tug gently, and Cui Jingkong could only bow his head and submit.

Note: 1. The second bonus chapter is a controversial one, so please think carefully before buying. It contains a small amount of Oedipal content.

2. The heroine is not a virgin; the hero is a virgin in both lives. One-on-one, HE.

3. The heroine is timid and weak, and changes somewhat later, but remains soft by nature. The hero is a madman, the kind who genuinely has something wrong with his head.

4. Includes melodramatic tropes such as bullying an honest person, fated love, possessive love, and running away while pregnant.

The historical romance next door, What Should I Do? I Mistook Someone Else for My Husband, is now live. Here’s the synopsis:

1.

Although Liu Meizhu’s husband was eleven years older than her, he was refined, wealthy, handsome, and endlessly patient with her.

They were deeply in love, but on the night of their tenth anniversary, they were in a car accident and both died.

When Liu Meizhu woke up again, she had transmigrated to an unfamiliar dynasty.

Her birth mother had died, leaving her in an awkward position at home. Liu Meizhu was all alone until she reached marriageable age, when, on the night of the Qixi Festival, she caught sight of Xu Zong standing on a bridge.

He had exactly the same face as the man she had loved in her previous life. The only difference was that Xu Zong had a mole beneath his eye that looked like a tear.

Although Xu Zong’s personality was completely different from her beloved’s, and he had forgotten everything about transmigrating, Liu Meizhu was disappointed but still convinced that he was her husband reincarnated.

So she pursued him relentlessly, and eventually got her wish and married Xu Zong.

Even when Xu Zong’s moods were unpredictable, sometimes treating her well and sometimes badly, and even when his parents were deeply displeased with her and tormented her repeatedly, Liu Meizhu still clung to the hope that one day Xu Zong would remember everything from their past life.

Until Xu Zong brought home a beautiful young woman with a slight swell to her belly and insisted on taking her as a concubine.

Liu Meizhu was thunderstruck. With tears streaming down her face, she begged him not to take a concubine and to remember the years they had shared as husband and wife.

But Xu Zong only glanced coldly at her as she sat on the floor, frowning as he said, “Meizhu, don’t act like some country shrew.”

At that moment, Liu Meizhu’s heart died completely.

For the first time, she clearly understood: Xu Zong was not him.

Three years of love had been wasted, all for nothing.

2.

Seven days after the concubine entered the household, Liu Meizhu left a divorce agreement behind and requested permission to become a Daoist nun.

But just as she was about to leave, she happened to meet a distant nephew of the Xu family at the main gate, a young man who had come from Shuozhou.

Liu Meizhu froze.

The nephew was youthful and vigorous, and looked seven parts like her husband.

He was just as stunned, but a smile had already crept onto his face as he called softly, “Yiyi?”

That was her childhood nickname in her previous life.

Liu Meizhu burst into tears.

I’m sorry, I’m sorry.

I mistook someone else for you. Please forgive me. Please forgive me.*

3.

Once, as they lay in bed, his wife had absentmindedly touched the teardrop mole beneath his eye.

Xu Zong asked her, “Does it bother you?”

His wife shook her head and playfully replied, “No, I think it adds the finishing touch.”

Afterward, their love fell apart and they went their separate ways for years. When they met again, snow was falling heavily.

His wife stood at a distance in the deep snow. Beside her was a tall young man holding an umbrella: Xu Congshan, the nephew he had once valued highly.

She smiled and said, “Xu Lang, I was wrong. It wasn’t the finishing touch. It was a flaw in a perfect gem.”

Note:

1. Both leads transmigrate. The heroine is not a virgin; the hero is. One-on-one, HE.

2. Contains lots and lots of melodramatic tropes, such as the second male lead desperately pursuing his wife but failing to win her back, an older man becoming a younger man, and a married woman with a younger man (a young man by ancient standards).

Theme: Love can overcome differences and span mountains and seas