Upright and proper little brother-in-law x honest, dutiful widow of his elder brother
(Good news: It was love at first sight. Bad news: The person he fell for was his sister-in-law!)
After her family fell into ruin, Xiao Ning had to cling to her engagement to the Shangshu family to protect her young siblings.
Fortunately, Shangshu Zhuang didn’t hold her family’s conviction against her. He welcomed her in and let her choose a date to marry his eldest son.
Xiao Ning was deeply grateful. But after marrying the eldest son, she couldn’t help feeling that the second son looked at her differently. She thought she was imagining it, until one day she accidentally saw the portrait the second son had hidden away. It was unmistakably her, depicted in a compromising pose.
Living under someone else’s roof, Xiao Ning kept to her place. Even after seeing the portrait, all she could do was pretend she hadn’t. She deliberately kept her distance from the second son, but before long, her husband fell gravely ill and died within a few days.
People called her ill-fated, someone who brought misfortune to her family and husband. The Zhuang family could no longer keep her and planned to send her to a temple to spend the rest of her life.
After hearing the news, Xiao Ning thought it over for a long time. To stay with the Zhuang family, she made the boldest decision of her life and knocked on the second son’s door before dawn.
The door did not open again until dusk.
Wen Qingcheng had known from the day Xiao Ning married into the Shangshu household that she had only done so to bring good fortune to his elder brother.
His elder brother had been frail and sickly since childhood, and no medicine could help him. That was why their father had come up with the idea of a wedding to bring him luck.
Wen Qingcheng scoffed at the idea. But for some reason, his gaze was always drawn to Xiao Ning, and her words and actions always stirred his heart.
He began to think of her day and night, developing forbidden desires for his sister-in-law. He sketched her likeness and came to loathe the elder brother who stood by her side.
Later, his elder brother died of illness. Their parents decided Xiao Ning was unlucky and planned to send her to a temple to spend the rest of her life.
Wen Qingcheng was about to intercept her and make proper arrangements, but before he could act, Xiao Ning came alone and knocked on his door.
The base feelings in Wen Qingcheng’s heart surged to the surface.
Looking at Xiao Ning standing before him, undressing, Wen Qingcheng couldn’t help but cruelly ask, “Is this how you used to beg my brother, too, sister-in-law?”
Reading guide: The male and female leads have only been with each other. The elder brother was unable to have sex due to his health.
Blurb revised: 2026.8.24
Theme: Cherish everything
