After Marrying the Wrong Twin

[The full story is complete. The next novel, After My Rival Hears My Thoughts, is described at the bottom]

[Brothers competing for love + twin fiction + marriage before love + sweet romance]

Cui Mei is a famously spoiled young lady in the capital. She comes from a powerful family, is doted on by her father and brothers, and has a bold, free-spirited personality.

Everyone knows she has been in love with the eldest son of the Xie family, Xie Wuyu, since childhood. But the Xie family is a respected scholarly clan, and Xie Wuyu is as pure and refined as a breeze and moonlight, proper and upright. Naturally, he would never take a spoiled, domineering young lady seriously.

Cui Mei gives him paintings, but he ignores them. Cui Mei gives him jade, but he coldly refuses it.

Finally, when Cui Mei learns that he's planning to propose to someone else, she can no longer hold back. She begs and pleads with the emperor, securing an imperial decree that orders the Xie and Cui families to marry.

*

Xie Wuji and Xie Wuyu are twins. One serves in the army, the other studies literature. Unable to bear seeing his elder brother forced into marriage, Xie Wuji offers to take his place and resolve the problem for him.

"I've been stationed at the border for years and have no interest in love. She's been spoiled all her life and won't be able to stand being left alone for long. When she asks for a divorce, that will be for the best."

On their wedding night, Xie Wuji is tipsy. Beneath the flickering red candles, he catches sight of a radiant young woman whose every expression is captivating. He had expected her to be vulgar and wanton, but when she sees him, she lowers her long lashes and smiles shyly.

The seventeen-year-old young general is stunned. A faint blush spreads across his ears.

*

Cui Mei thinks her husband has some strange illness.

Sometimes he's incredibly good to her, wholehearted and sincere. At other times he's cold and distant, as if he's become someone else.

Only when the Cui family falls into ruin and the young general travels thousands of miles to rush back to the capital, forcing his way into the palace and defying the emperor's fury to carry her home after she's knelt there for three days, does she realize the brothers have deceived her.

She leaves home with a divorce letter and disappears without a trace. One brother is secretly delighted, while the other panics.

When Xie Wuji finally finds her, his elder brother is holding her slender waist and pinning her against a wall.

"Mei'er, weren't you... in love with me at first?"

Reader's Guide:

★ A bright and spoiled young lady from a prominent family × the aloof elder brother and the free-spirited young general. Twin fiction, not split personalities. The younger brother is the male lead. Both leads are sexually inexperienced, and the ending is happy.

★ The brothers compete for her, but the heroine is married only to the younger brother throughout. The younger brother is often away from home, and after the elder brother falls for her, his love remains unrequited.

After My Rival Hears My Thoughts

All of Shengjing knows Shen Yan hates Ning Yuan.

He resents her curvy figure, her willful behavior, her complete lack of a refined young lady's manners, and the way she's spoiled, prone to tears, and clumsy with words.

Ning Yuan dislikes Shen Yan, too. Everyone may praise him as peerlessly handsome and a brilliant young talent, but she remembers how cold and arrogant he was toward her.

And yet these two sworn enemies are bound by a betrothal made when they were babies.

At a palace banquet one day, someone frames Ning Yuan and she falls into the water. Shen Yan happens to walk by. He sees her struggling and calling for help, but walks away without even looking at her.

Ning Yuan: Hypocritical, heartless bastard T-T

But her unspoken thought rings in Shen Yan's mind at the same time.

Oh no, what do you do when you can hear your rival's thoughts?

From then on...

Ning Yuan suffers a stomachache and cries into her quilt. Her sobbing makes Shen Yan unable to concentrate, so a bowl of painkillers soon appears at her door.

Ning Yuan: Why would he suddenly grow a conscience and bring me medicine? He must want something from my father!

Ning Yuan bathes and secretly admires her own figure. Far away in his study, Shen Yan burns with restless desire, his expression strange.

Ning Yuan attends the spring hunt and takes a liking to a young general on the hunting grounds. Shen Yan can't sit still any longer and walks over to her table.

"Ning Yuan, aren't you already betrothed?"

Ning Yuan pauses with a pastry halfway to her mouth, thinking that he's acting awfully strange.

Later, a young woman visits the Xie residence and gently hands Shen Yan's father a fine letter.

Staring at the still-sealed letter, Shen Yan does something outrageously out of character in front of everyone for the first time.

He snatches the letter away, tosses it into the brazier, and says coldly:

"My betrothal isn't something you can just end whenever you feel like it."

Ning Yuan thinks: Huh? How did he know I was going to break off the engagement?

*

Ning Yuan has a secret she keeps hidden deep in her heart.

She has a book called Grudge Journal.

Whenever someone bullies her, she writes their name in it and imagines how she'll get revenge.

But she's too timid and soft-hearted to do anything. She only dares to imagine it.

At some point, she discovers to her horror that every single thing in her Grudge Journal is coming true.

She thinks Heaven must be taking special pity on her because she's kindhearted but bad with words, and that the people who bully her are getting what they deserve.

On their wedding night, she raises the Grudge Journal at Shen Yan as he approaches, gloating, "I'm warning you, don't you dare bully me, or I'll write your name in here!"

Shen Yan, who had been helping her get revenge because he could hear her thoughts: ...

He leans closer and lifts her chin. "Go ahead and try."

#Surprise! The kindhearted god is actually her husband#

Message: Respect one another.