Reborn and Married My Brother-in-Law

He Yujiao couldn't understand why she had been reborn.

Though she was a concubine's daughter, her family loved her. She lived in luxury and was envied as the most esteemed young lady in the capital.

Though she married beneath her station, her husband was accomplished. His success brought her honor, making her the wife of the chief minister and a first-rank noblewoman.

Apart from dying young, she had been blessed with a fortunate life.

So He Yujiao planned to repeat her fortunate life.

But then she overheard that the Duke Who Guards the Nation had come to ask for her hand as his second wife. Her parents were so furious that they threw him out.

The moment He Yujiao heard this, her eyes reddened. She knelt before her parents and begged, "I am willing to marry my brother-in-law as his second wife!"

Her father was instantly enraged. "You scoundrel! We taught you to read and understand propriety, and this is what you've learned? To debase yourself?"

Her stepmother sighed. "That Duke Who Guards the Nation is a brute, and his newly ennobled military household has more spies than loyal servants! Your sister had no choice because the emperor arranged her marriage. Are you really going to leap into the fire pit, too?"

Before long, her birth mother and brothers came to talk her out of it as well. The match they suggested was a farmer's son, but he was talented, handsome, and young!

He Yujiao was deeply moved, and tearfully explained, "I had a dream..."

Everyone in the He family was baffled. "Wasn't it a good dream? Isn't it wonderful for a young lady to enjoy such a life of wealth and ease?"

"What if the Duke Who Guards the Nation really dies? You'll be a widow!"

He Yujiao smiled.

Having a second choice, she'd rather be a widow than have a living husband whose eyes occasionally flashed with schemes against the He family.

From humble beginnings as a farmer's son to a chief minister with power in his hands, Pei Jingxue considered himself a man who cared only for profit.

Even when his wife died unexpectedly, he could accuse his political enemies of poisoning her. After all, though she was a concubine's daughter, her family was an old military house whose heads had been honored in the Imperial Ancestral Temple for generations. They were a family of inestimable prestige.

But when he saw the sharp glint of the coroner's knife, he was suddenly afraid.

Then he went mad.

Given the chance to start over, he thought Heaven had taken pity on him and given him another chance to marry his wife.

But Pei Jingxue never imagined that his wife, He Yujiao, would... would marry her brother-in-law, the Duke Who Guards the Nation.

Even when he publicly proposed to her as a six-time top examination laureate, vowing to love only her for the rest of his life, she wouldn't change her mind.

She'd rather be mocked by the world as a second wife than become the chief minister's wife again!

Consumed by jealousy, Pei Jingxue went completely mad. He stopped at nothing, even impersonating an imperial relative and wielding the emperor's overwhelming authority to take her by force. He would rather have her hate him, but he hadn't expected He Yujiao to smile calmly and say, "The law and imperial authority both allow me to live after killing you!"

The Duke Who Guards the Nation swaggered over and handed her an imperial pardon granting nine lives. "Little wife, killing him once won't satisfy you. This says you have nine lives. Once you've used them all up, I'll go earn more military honors!"

Reader's Guide:

1. A concubine's daughter marries her brother-in-law; marriage first, love later.

2. The second male lead goes through hell trying to win his wife back.

3. Set in a fictional world.

Theme: Her birth family is home, too