Elder Sister-in-Law Qingyin

[My next novel will be The Princess Is About to Enter the Bridal Chamber for the Ninth Time (Both Leads Reborn). The blurb is at the very bottom. Please add it to your reading list!]

Noble lady x husband's younger brother

Shen Qingyin was a noble lady, yet she had no choice in whom she married.

But her upbringing had taught her to accept her circumstances quickly.

A year after her wedding, one major event after another struck her family.

Her father-in-law died, her husband fell gravely ill, and a letter from her family arrived, ordering her to hurry up and conceive a legitimate son.

After the memorial service, Shen Qingyin saw her husband standing in a corner of the covered walkway, dressed in mourning clothes, his expression inscrutable.

Her husband had only just recovered enough to look so healthy, yet now, during the mourning period...

She crept up behind him and hooked her little finger around his, summoning all her courage:

“Could we meet in the side courtyard tonight?”

She had no idea that she had encountered Li Chan, her husband's twin brother.

Li Chan understood what she meant. His eyes were as deep as a pool, but he did not expose her.

“Sure.”

-

Li Chan had been numb to the world since childhood. A sage had said that he was the reincarnation of an evil spirit from seven lifetimes, destined to kill his own kin and walk a path from which he would never return, abandoned by all.

So he was despised, bullied, and cast aside.

The young man returned to the Li family in the very year his father died. The family was beset by troubles within and without, his elder brother was frail, and he himself was already a renowned top assassin, feared in both the martial world and the imperial court.

Taking revenge on the Li family would be as easy as crushing an ant.

But it would be too boring.

At first, he and Shen Qingyin were simply using each other to get what they wanted.

Who knew that as she treated his wounds and illness, she would pick open the locks around his heart, little by little?

Later, he learned that it had all been a case of mistaken identity.

He couldn't help deceiving and hiding things from her, but when he saw Shen Qingyin walk away, he finally understood: he could feel pain, too. Heartache.

He seized her wrist and pulled her closer, then lifted her chin. He was like a gray-eyed wolf.

His whole body burned with longing, but his expression was eerily calm:

“Niannian, you really are terrible at judging people. Take another good look...”

“Who am I?”

One-on-one romance. The female lead has no prior sexual experience, while the male lead does.

The heroine's nickname is Niannian.

Her former husband married her for a family alliance. There was no love between them, and the brothers are twins.

The male lead was born unable to feel pain, and his emotions are unlike those of ordinary people. He's an obsessive, unstable type.

Set in a fictional world. The heroine will escape the oppression of feudal thinking and pursue a career, but this is not a strong-female-lead story. She grows over time.

Neither lead is perfect.

The Princess Is About to Enter the Bridal Chamber for the Ninth Time (Both Leads Reborn)

Ambitious, deceptively gentle schemer x arrogant, domineering, delicate princess

[Love and hatred intertwined, taking by force, defying one's superior]

Fu Ye had spent eighteen years indulging her every whim as a princess. After finally securing a marriage pact with her childhood sweetheart, on her wedding night...

she was assassinated.

Reborn, Fu Ye counted on her fingers. She had twelve hours before she was stabbed.

She had her people guard against every possible threat, then casually picked up a pastry.

It was poisoned.

Reborn for the second time, she made a scene demanding to break off the engagement. Everyone thought she was being haunted by a nightmare, and in the confusion, someone shoved her.

Her head hurt.

The third time, the fourth time...

It was not until the seventh time that Fu Ye figured out who was behind it all.

By her eighth time, Fu Ye was experienced and resourceful, and finally killed him: Xuan Shuo, the all-powerful chancellor of the court, a man even the emperor treated with respect.

As a result, she was reborn for the ninth time.

This time, she returned to when she was sixteen and immediately fixed her sights on her target: Xuan Shuo, who was still a slave serving her father.

“Father, this little slave seems nice. Why not give him to me?”

The young princess picked up a piece of raw meat with her long chopsticks and tossed it in front of him.

Innocent and cruel.

“I need a well-behaved dog. What do you say?”

Without hesitation, the young man grabbed the raw meat with both hands and devoured it. The madness and sickness in his eyes were completely hidden.

“Woof.”

-

Fu Ye naturally got Xuan Shuo.

In public, she remained the same arrogant, domineering princess.

In private, she tormented and humiliated him.

Xuan Shuo, once high above everyone else, was now nothing but her dog.

When she got bored of him and found him irritating, she sent him off to the frontier.

That day, the young man's eyes were cold as stars, and his words cut straight to the point. “Does Third Princess no longer need me to be her dog?”

She scoffed. “Plenty of people want to be my dog. Who do you think you are?”

Years later, Xuan Shuo, who had seemed destined to never rise above his station, distinguished himself in battle again and again and became a legendary war god on the frontier.

The first thing he did upon returning to the capital was ask the emperor for the hand of the Third Princess.

And so, the princess was about to enter the bridal chamber for the ninth time.

Fu Ye panicked, ran, got caught, and gave up.

On the day of the wedding, she pretended to submit, planning to catch Xuan Shuo off guard.

But the handsome young man beneath her suddenly opened his eyes, impassively watching as the dagger in her hand plunged toward him.

He sneered, then whispered against her ear like a demon. “I'll give you one more chance. If I catch you in the next life, Princess, you'll belong to me completely.”

# An endless chase, like a survival game

# Pure historical fantasy. Both leads are reborn.

# The leads retain different amounts of their memories. The story will explain.

# A true love-hate relationship. The first chapter will include reading tips.

# Elements of taking by force and groveling for forgiveness

Theme: Break free from the constraints of feudal propriety