After Switching Husbands with My Twin Sister

The Lan clan of Luoyang was a distinguished family of generations of officials. The men rose steadily through the ranks at court, while the women had produced an imperial decree lady and a First-Rank Noble Consort.

Lan Yunjin and her twin sister came of age and were married off. One married Pei Ye, the young master of a duke's estate; the other married the military officer Wei Xiao, known on the battlefield as the Grim Reaper.

Both were arranged marriages, and neither bride had met her husband before the wedding. Lan Yunjin married into the duke's household and followed her family lessons, striving to be Pei Ye's virtuous wife and a refined, well-mannered duchess.

But who could have known that her sister Yunying would meet with disaster and die before she could marry into the general's household?

The Grim Reaper, too, perished on the battlefield, his body never found.

Lan Yunjin was trapped in the duke's estate for her entire life. She outlived her mother-in-law and husband, and as he drew his last breath, her husband told her that the person he had always loved was her sister, Yunying.

After a life that ended like a cruel joke, Lan Yunjin returned to the night before her wedding as a young woman.

Having spent her whole life as a virtuous wife and loving mother, this time Lan Yunjin did something outrageously unladylike: she persuaded her sister to take her bridal sedan chair.

As for Lan Yunjin, she took her sister's sedan chair. She met with no disaster and safely married Wei Xiao.

On their wedding night, her mother-in-law cautiously warned her that Wei Xiao had a hidden ailment and asked her to be patient with him.

Lan Yunjin had been a mother herself, of course she understood what her mother-in-law meant.

That night, Lan Yunjin softly comforted him. "Husband, don't worry. Your illness will get better in time."

As a result, she didn't go to serve tea until noon the next day.

Lan Yunjin was mortified. What hidden ailment could Wei Xiao possibly have? He was perfectly healthy.

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Wei Xiao did indeed have a hidden ailment. The wife he married said she would help cure it, but less than two days later, she fled at the crucial moment and made excuses to put him off again and again.

A good remedy was hard to come by. How could Wei Xiao let Lan Yunjin slip away so easily?

His broad frame was enough to block any path Lan Yunjin tried to take.

"Does Madam want to watch me waste away and die young? Then choose another husband?"

Lan Yunjin hurriedly covered Wei Xiao's mouth. "It's broad daylight. Don't talk nonsense!"

Wei Xiao asked, "Will you save me or not?"

Lan Yunjin resigned herself, closed her eyes, and said, "I'll save you! I will!"

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Coming next in my author's page: Reborn and Adopted by My Nemesis. The blurb:

Jiang Qiong began as a low-ranking palace maid, as insignificant as an ant, dreaming of climbing the social ladder. She trod carefully in the imperial palace.

She resorted to every underhanded trick and took lives, yet still couldn't reach the position she wanted.

Yan Jin's family had fallen into ruin, leaving him like a fish on a chopping board, at the mercy of others. He became a low-ranking eunuch in the Directorate of Ceremonial.

He was ruthless in his dealings, spending ten years earning the emperor's trust. He became the Directorate's chief eunuch, a favorite of the emperor.

Jiang Qiong hated Yan Jin most of all.

Yan Jin hated Jiang Qiong most of all.

She despised his cunning, and he looked down on her methods.

As court officials fought behind the scenes, Yan Jin was imprisoned, and Jiang Qiong died in the imperial palace.

When she was reborn, she became the daughter of a noble family, one on the verge of collapse.

Her parents died suddenly, and she was left in dire straits. Just then, Yan Jin, still whole and unmaimed, reached out to her and said, "Come home with me."

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Jiang Qiong thought Heaven was deliberately mocking her.

She had actually become his cousin!

As far as Jiang Qiong was concerned, Yan Jin was not a brother she could depend on.

Yan Jin didn't know about the enmity between them.

But she remembered.

Jiang Qiong decided to enter the palace again.

But...

This young man who carefully looked after her, taught her to read and write, and even combed her hair had nothing in common with the despicable wretch who had mocked her stupidity and wanted her dead.

Jiang Qiong looked around in bewilderment.

Should she take revenge or not?

Yan Jin thought he knew his younger sister very well.

She liked to act sweet, seize opportunities, and enjoy the good life. She was stubborn and slow-witted.

Before his mother died, she told him, "Your sister has had a hard life. No matter how heartless others may be, you must treat her well."

He promised his mother he would find Jiang Qiong a worthy husband.

But Jiang Qiong defied him at every turn.

She refused to marry a young man and insisted on entering the palace, eager to get as far away from him as possible.

He would never let her have her way.

Driven to the end of her rope, Jiang Qiong lowered her head and said, "I'll repay every kindness you've shown me. Please stop blocking my path."

"I've raised you all these years, and now you want to cut ties with me completely?"

Yan Jin, holding back for far too long, gripped her waist and gently stroked it. "Since you don't want to marry anyone else, there's no need to look for a worthy husband."

"And why is that?"

"Because I am the only one who can marry you."

Theme: Good things come in pairs, and there's always more than meets the eye