After My Elder Brother Became My Husband

Coming soon: 《The Regent's Everyday Surrender》 blurb below 【Scheming, doting older-brother type hero x slow-to-realize, gentle heroine】Updated daily! Shen Wanying had an older brother. They weren't related by blood, but he had been by her side since they were children. She had called him “Brother” for over a decade. Everyone in the city knew that the Marquis's daughter, Miss Shen, always had a young man inseparable from her. Then an imperial decree of marriage turned her brother into her husband. He said there was no defying the emperor's will. They would placate His Majesty for now, then find an excuse to divorce once the dust had settled. She believed him. They had been together since childhood, after all. It was just a change of title. Surely their life together wouldn't be all that different. But as the days of their marriage went by, she gradually sensed that something was off. Until one day, she rose on tiptoe and gave her brother a very light kiss on the cheek, just like before: a playful, affectionate gesture between siblings. But the way her brother looked at her seemed to have changed. A little scene: Later, behind the curtains, Shen Wanying could barely catch her breath as he kissed her. Trembling, she called out, “Brother... aren't we siblings?” He brushed the moisture from the corner of her lips with his thumb, his voice low and husky. “Isn't it a little late to ask that now, Wanying?” “But you said we were only pretending...” Xie Wuling took hold of her wrist and pressed it into the layers of brocade quilts, planting kiss after kiss along her neck. “I've said so many things, Wanying. How come you only remember that one?” Shen Wanying tilted up her small face, her eyes clouded with emotion and her fingertips trembling. All she could hear was his voice: “Be good, Wanying. Call me husband.” I was the one who personally asked for the imperial decree. I never planned to be only your brother. P.S. The heroine calling the hero “Brother” is an original element. 《The Regent's Everyday Surrender》 blurb Shen Mingshu is just like her name: beautiful as a jade-faced flower, famed throughout the capital as its greatest beauty. It's only a pity that she was born into the Shen family, a clan that scrambles for advantage and clings to its high-status image through marriage alliances. Such beauty is nothing more than a higher bargaining chip. When she was sixteen, disaster struck her family, and they tried to send her to curry favor with Regent Xiao Jue. She entered the rear courtyard of his manor in a small sedan chair, without even receiving a proper title. He's said to be ruthless, uninterested in women, and possessed of countless ways to make people suffer. Shen Mingshu is afraid, but with the Shen family on the brink of ruin, she has no choice but to accept her fate for the sake of her mother and younger brother. She has to please him and win his favor. Even when he points the tip of his sword at her chin, Shen Mingshu doesn't back down. She keeps trying to please him in every way. At last, the man's tone softens, and he spends more and more nights in her bed. Shen Mingshu clutches her aching waist and thinks, Soon. Once the Shen family is out of danger, she'll leave and never look back. * Xiao Jue has always despised those who curry favor and covet the powerful. So he could never fall for Shen Mingshu. She is meek and obedient, like a fragile dodder vine. She acts as if she couldn't live without him. At first, Xiao Jue is utterly annoyed by her, but little by little, she manages to prise open a tiny crack in his heart. She's so well-behaved and devoted to serving him. Perhaps it wouldn't be so bad to give her the status of a concubine someday. But later, when he offers her the position of his wife, she sheds all her charm and gentleness and kneels before him, begging only to leave. Xiao Jue's eyes darken and his gaze turns heavy. Now that she's provoked him, she doesn't get to decide that it's over. A little scene: Shen Mingshu hugs her bundle and finally manages to escape, only to be woken in the middle of the night by the pounding of hooves. In the glow of the torches, the handsome Regent looks like the King of Hell. “My lady, where do you think you're going?” Shen Mingshu turns deathly pale. Theme: Devoted to one love for life.