🔥Aloof beauty, possessive pursuit, best friend's wife
🔥Also known as: My Senior Brother's Best Friend Married the Fiancée I Rejected, Sending Me Down the Irredeemable Path of Moral Decay, Coveting My Friend's Wife, and Taking Her by Force
[Blurb]
Cui Weizhen was betrothed from childhood to Xu Bingsu, the legitimate son of a prominent family in the capital. The Xu family had been distinguished for generations, while Cui's father was merely a minor official in Quzhou. Everyone said Cui Weizhen was lucky to have secured such a match.
But on the day she came of age, her fiancé, Xu Bingsu, personally came to break off the engagement.
Unwilling to accept it, Cui Weizhen ran after him to ask why. All she got from Xu Bingsu was:
"You are frivolous and wanton, unfit to be a wife."
Cui Weizhen felt grievously wronged and couldn't understand why he had said such a thing. But from then on, her reputation was ruined and her marriage prospects stalled. Her stepmother, Madam Liu, beat and berated her every day, and even tried to force her to become a concubine to one of her father's superiors, a man past sixty.
Then Han Zhao, commander of the Northern Garrison, came to propose and saved her from the fire pit.
Han Zhao was lustful, while Cui Weizhen was shy. But she considered him her savior and was devoted to repaying him, never refusing him in bed. Han Zhao was considerate toward her, too, and at last her life began to improve.
A year after their wedding, Han Zhao held a banquet at home to welcome his junior brother. Cui Weizhen went to pay her respects, only to discover that Han Zhao's junior brother was Xu Bingsu.
Cui Weizhen felt as if the sky had fallen. Afraid Xu Bingsu would badmouth her to Han Zhao and ruin the stable life she had now, she could only act with extreme caution around him, anxious not to displease him.
After that, she often felt someone watching her from the shadows.
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Xu Bingsu had always known he had a fiancée from a backwater town. He knew without even meeting such a woman that she could never be fit to become the matriarch of the Xu family.
The first time he saw Cui Weizhen was when her father brought her to his home, hoping to set a wedding date. Xu Bingsu took one distant look at her and saw a woman with an overly voluptuous figure and flirtatious manner, utterly lacking in propriety. He began to consider breaking off the engagement.
When Cui Weizhen came of age, he finally persuaded his father to end the unsuitable match, then left the capital for an appointment elsewhere.
He thought he would never see Cui Weizhen again. But four years later, he returned to the capital to report on his work, and his senior invited him to his home for a welcome banquet.
At the banquet, a curvaceous, alluring woman approached with graceful steps. His senior put an arm around her shoulder and introduced her. "Yun Zhi, this is your sister-in-law."
The woman bent her knees in a curtsy, her hairpin perfectly still. But her overly voluptuous figure made the movement seem flirtatious and wanton, almost familiar.
The woman looked up and saw him. Her eyes immediately filled with terror, and Xu Bingsu froze, too.
This woman was Cui Weizhen.
Afraid his senior had been deceived, he investigated what had happened back then, only to learn that he had wronged her.
Later, one night, he stayed in the room next door to theirs and heard Han Zhao and Cui Weizhen entwined in intimate passion. The woman's voice was languid and seductive, like a swallow beneath the eaves.
Jealousy blazed within him, burning away every last scrap of propriety and shame. He thought:
Cui Weizhen should have been his wife all along.
He wanted Cui Weizhen.
As fate would have it, Han Zhao was implicated in an old case. Xu Bingsu had someone spread a rumor, luring Cui Weizhen to meet him at night.
The woman knelt at his feet, her eyes red and swollen, her voice sorrowful. "If you can save my husband, I, Weizhen, will repay you with my life."
He lifted Cui Weizhen's face and straightened her crooked gold hairpin, his voice husky and seductively persuasive. "My senior brother's troubles are serious. If sister-in-law truly wants to save him, you'll have to try harder."
Cui Weizhen trembled all over, looking at him with a deathly pale face.
Xu Bingsu loosened the sash at her waist, his eyes obsessive and feverish. "Zhenzhen, do you want to save your husband? How badly?"
PS:
The female lead is not a virgin, while the male lead is. Rivalry between men. While the female lead remains married, the male lead secretly lusts after her.
2026.05.08
Theme: Treasure what you have.
