But My Brother-in-Law Is My Husband

Song Jiyao is the legitimate daughter of the Song household, while throughout the vast Jiangnan region, the universally admired moonlight in everyone's heart is her elder half-sister, Song Yingli.

Her elder sister is gentle and kind, with impeccable manners, the very model of a young lady from one of Jiangnan's distinguished families.

Only Song Jiyao knows that in private, Song Yingli is sharp-tongued and cruel, often bullying and beating her timid, unloved younger sister.

That is, until a guest of the household arrived: Pei Huizhou.

Dressed in a white robe that seemed to gather snow and frost, he stood quietly beneath the corridor, refined and aloof, shining more brilliantly than a plum blossom defying the snow.

In private, her elder sister told her to call Pei Huizhou brother-in-law.

Song Jiyao gazed at the immortal-like man, radiant and untainted, and obediently called him, "Brother-in-law."

Later, her father, who doted on his concubine and neglected his wife, decided to arrange a marriage between her elder sister and Pei Huizhou.

Song Jiyao thought, her sister wants him so badly. If I steal him away...

Amid the chaos of war, Song Jiyao watched the hypocritical household erupt into turmoil, and, as she had wished, saw the hatred and ferocity on her sister's face.

She smiled with satisfaction, then cowered into the man's arms as though frightened.

"Brother-in-law, I'm scared..."

Yet no one noticed that Pei Huizhou's hand, protectively resting at her waist, had never loosened its hold.

*

The toad had truly managed to eat the swan's flesh, and everyone was furious.

Song Jiyao also understood that the person Pei Huizhou had truly wanted to marry was her elder sister.

But she didn't care. To make her revenge even more thrilling, she deliberately acted coy and intimate with Pei Huizhou in front of her elder half-sister.

"Brother-in-law, I can't walk any farther..."

"Brother-in-law, carry me..."

Even after they married, she refused to change how she addressed him and call him "husband."

Again and again, because he had inadvertently looked at her elder sister for a moment too long, she would behave imperiously and demand that he "kneel" at her feet.

She took even greater pleasure in deliberately hiding beneath the table while he sternly discussed affairs of state with others, bit by bit shattering the clear-eyed composure in his gaze.

Until one day, her elder sister brought the Crown Prince home.

At the table, Song Jiyao greeted him according to etiquette with a call of brother-in-law. Pei Huizhou, seated beside her, showed no reaction. That night, he held her in a tight grip in a dark room filled with paintings until dawn.

"All you wanted was the title of brother-in-law. Would just anyone do, as long as he had that title?"

"Then let this brother-in-law cherish you, all right?"

Important! The male lead has loved only the female lead from beginning to end. Both are pure in body and heart.

[Blurb dated 2023/12/18]

Theme: A forcibly twisted melon can still turn sweet.