My Nephew’s Wife

Blurb:

After learning she wasn't a daughter of the Zhao family, Zhao Yu finally escaped her brother, whose control over her had become an obsession.

She met the man who would become her husband. He was a dashing young man who didn't care about her past or the fact that she was mute. He defied everyone's objections and married her. But after six months of marriage, she had not borne him a child. Her mother-in-law despised her at every turn and secretly sold her to a trafficker.

In the depths of winter, wearing only thin clothes, Zhao Yu shivered in a wooden cage. Just as she was about to pass out from the cold, her instinct to survive made her reach out and clutch the hem of a passing man's robe.

The man lowered his eyes and glanced down at the trembling woman in the wooden cage. Her pale lips moved, but all that came out was a string of “ah” sounds.

He asked, “Mute?”

Zhao Yu nodded.

In the end, the man bought her for twenty taels of silver.

Zhao Yu thought she had met a kind benefactor who would rescue her from her suffering. She was about to beg him to send her back to her husband's family. They would surely repay the twenty taels and offer him a gift of thanks.

But the first thing the man said after taking her home was that she should take off her clothes.

She twisted around to run, but a powerful hand seized her shoulder and pinned her against the table. Behind her, the man's breath was hot, his voice cold. “Don't move. This will be quick.”

Zhao Yu had never imagined that one day a man other than her husband would touch her, fill her...

He was like an insatiable beast. She fled again and again, and every time he caught her and brought her back.

He asked her name, where she lived, whether she had parents, and whether there was a man she loved. She could only make up lies at random, so he wouldn't be able to find her if she escaped later.

At last, one day, she managed to flee back to her husband. She thought she could keep quiet about what had happened and everything would be all right.

But who could have known she was pregnant...

As she lived in fear day after day, her husband told her that the New Year was approaching and his fifth uncle would soon return from the capital for the holiday.

When she saw the head of the Pei family, her husband's fifth uncle, she recognized the familiar face from her memories. Looking into the man's icy, dark eyes, her heart died completely.

In the dim room, Pei Zhao cornered her on the bed she shared with her husband.

Her husband was still lying beside her, sound asleep.

The man gripped her chin, his eyes cold as ice. “After you fled from me, before you went back to my nephew, you had affairs with your brother and your cousin.”

His hand covered her slightly rounded belly. Feeling her body tremble beneath his palm, he gave a bitter, gritted-teeth laugh. “Can you even tell whose bastard this is? Your brother's? Your cousin's? Or... my nephew's? At this stage, it can't possibly be mine...”

★ For readers who like dramatic, messy tropes. The heroine is not a virgin, while all the male leads are. This story features a woman everyone is drawn to, a rivalry among the men, and a battlefield where every male lead wants to kill the others. Expect coercive possession, face-slapping and winning her back, running away while pregnant, stealing another man's wife, and all kinds of over-the-top drama. The heroine is fragile from beginning to end, but also resilient and clever. She is mute in the early chapters and recovers later.

★ The heroine and her husband are not legally married. Before the heroine becomes involved with her brother, their sibling relationship has already been dissolved.

Blurb dated September 27, 2026, screenshot saved.

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