Blurb: (Upright and honorable elder brother-in-law x honest, dutiful younger brother's wife)
Everyone in the capital says the Cui family's eldest son, Cui Heng, is as refined as jade: gentle, warm, and a true gentleman praised by all. But Jiang Sui feels that the way this much-lauded brother-in-law looks at her isn't entirely innocent.
Every time she spends the night with her husband, she runs into Cui Heng the next day.
And his gaze is so dark and unfathomable that it makes her scalp crawl.
That unsettling feeling only grows worse after her husband leaves to serve at the frontier, leaving her alone in the household with Cui Heng.
She's afraid of Cui Heng, so she always avoids him. Yet she often feels that a pair of eyes are watching her intently from the shadows.
Those eyes look just like her brother-in-law's.
The upright gentleman everyone praises, the man who is gentle as jade and has no interest in women.
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Cui Heng considers himself an honorable gentleman, devoted to the court and uninterested in women. But on the night his younger brother got married, while his brother was sharing a bed with his wife...
He experienced something he'd never known before, as if he were truly there.
His hands seemed to physically caress her slender, graceful figure.
Every part, every inch, he was forced to experience.
Night after night, with hardly a break.
Cui Heng has always known that he and his younger brother share a one-way physical connection. He can feel everything that happens to his brother's body, including what he feels when he's in bed with his wife.
He tries to keep his distance from the couple, to stay away from this immoral, deeply improper situation. He often despises himself for his base fantasies about his younger brother's wife.
But no matter how much he tries to avoid it, nothing works.
In the end, Cui Heng lets himself descend into it with full awareness.
He sinks into the empty yet almost tangible pleasure of each passing day.
Later, he thinks darkly and despicably: Why can't he be Jiang Sui's husband?
He can give her everything his younger brother can.
And he can give her what his younger brother can't.
1. The heroine is not a virgin, and the male lead has never had sex.
2. A truly honorable gentleman gradually becomes a morally bankrupt, twisted, and pathological ghost of a man.
3. The romance between the leads begins after the heroine ends her marriage.
Blurb finalized on 2026/2/15
Premise: Strive to improve yourself every day