My Elder Brother, the Great Miaojiang Wizard

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On the day Zhu Queyi became the great shaman of Miaojiang, she got dead drunk beneath the main sacrificial altar.

Fan Wu saw the white-haired man, drunk out of his mind. She also saw the several noblewomen and slaves lying beside him, and smelled the blood in the air. She realized what was about to happen.

She frowned and was about to leave.

Then she heard him call, "...You. Stop."

The brother who had just told her yesterday that he wasn't her real brother. The brother who had shouted at her yesterday to get back to the Central Plains...

He slipped the handcuff bracelet belonging to the high priest of Miaojiang onto her wrist. From that moment on, she was his wife.

Fan Wu: I really was just passing by... before I left.

He had painstakingly raised her for six years. Did she think she could just leave like that?

He wouldn't allow it.

In a nutshell: Make a career-minded older brother lose his mind...

* One-on-one, both leads' first times, happy ending. The male lead has white hair only during the sacrificial ceremony scenes in the story. The rest of the time, his hair is black. The white hair is a job requirement.

* The leads are not related by blood. There is no romance while they still have a familial relationship; the romance begins after they sever that relationship.

* The main text takes precedence.

* This novel exists only in its own fictional universe. It is not based on real people.

* Thank you, ladies, for reading this far. If it's not to your taste, please stop reading rather than forcing yourself.

*The last point is a slightly spoilery hint, presented as a fill-in-the-blank so I don't spoil too much. It's one of the novel's major foreshadowed plot points, and I've already written that part, which is why I'm including this. The novel's tags do not include XX popular tag, so it is not an XX novel, and the female lead is not XX either. This is a story about a heroine growing up, from a little girl into a grown woman.

[Growth and Comeback] Contest entry reason: Surrounded by enemies and swept along by the tides of chaos, the heroine uses her wits to navigate among powerful figures, grows stronger, and brings the troubled times to an end.

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Coming Soon: My Spoiled Cousin, The Unfettered River and Mountains

The eldest son of the Duke of Shen's household was Yu Chao's cousin.

After Yu Chao's parents died, the tutor in her household wrote to this cousin and asked him to let her stay at the Duke of Shen's estate.

Her cousin wrote back refusing, but sent her a box of gold.

But just a few days later, her aunt, who had been bedridden for years, came in person from the Duke of Shen's estate to fetch her and gave her cousin a furious scolding.

She moved into the Duke of Shen's mansion in Chang'an at fourteen. Just two years later, she began managing the household's accounts.

That was because her cousin was a spoiled idler who had never applied himself to his studies. He spent his days racing horses and drinking with the capital's young nobles, and more times than she could count, she had to take people out late at night to carry him home...

Until one day, he went riding in the wilds with someone and fell from his horse, nearly ruining his handsome face.

When he was carried back, blood still covered his face and body. His head was split open, and his leg was broken.

He had always been arrogant and overbearing, but now his handsome face was covered with wounds.

"Cousin, can't you try to do something right for once? If you won't think of yourself, at least think of my aunt, who's been ill for years. She's already so sick, and how much longer are you going to make her worry about you..."

That day, she cried uncontrollably.

Her slender, delicate figure was like a flower bud swaying in the storm... so soft, so pitiful.

His eyes reddened. The hot tears falling onto the back of his hand seemed, this time, to have dripped straight into his heart.

But his proud brows lifted again in an instant, and he said coldly, "I'm not your cousin. Don't call me that again."

Years later, when the truth of his birth was revealed to the world, he appeared before Yu Chao in splendid robes. "Yu Chao, I'm afraid we can't be brother and sister in this life."

That single tear destined us to be entangled until our hair turned white.

* They are not related by blood. Their romance begins after their familial relationship is severed. The male lead is not the Duke's son.

* One-on-one, both leads' first times.

* Arrogant and domineering × gentle on the outside, strong-willed within

Theme: Human effort can overcome fate., Xunzi