Claiming My Eldest Brother's Wife

A gentle, airheaded beauty and a scheming green-tea guy who plays the other man

1.

Tong Shuang and Chu Mingzhen have been married for years. They are a loving couple, known to everyone in Mingcheng.

One day, the Chu family of the capital sends people to recognize their kin, and she learns that her husband is the eldest son born to a concubine of the prestigious Chu clan, who was lost to the family years ago.

Just like that, she goes from being a country girl to the eldest daughter-in-law of a distinguished family.

The rules of an aristocratic clan are numerous, and being the eldest daughter-in-law is no easy task. She must learn the capital's etiquette every day and watch every word and action.

Tong Shuang can bear those restrictions. What she truly cannot stand is her suddenly appearing second uncle, Chu Zhiyi.

2.

Chu Zhiyi is handsome and refined, and the legitimate son of the Chu family. Though still young, he is already making waves in politics. Everyone praises his upright character and calls him the capital's most exceptional young talent.

But Tong Shuang dislikes him. The noble gentleman, who seems as pure as a fresh breeze to outsiders, sees her and her husband as thorns in his side. He watches her with a shadowed gaze and constantly targets her husband.

3.

Bound by the glory of the Chu clan, Chu Zhiyi has devoted himself to books and family affairs since childhood. He knows nothing of tenderness or hardship, and has poured all his energy into the clan's fortunes.

He lived this way for twenty years.

Until the winter of the third year of Chong'an, when his elder brother, who had been lost to the family, returned home with his wife.

Only then did he first learn from Tong Shuang what warmth was.

4.

His elder brother was raised in the fields and falls short of him in education, looks, and physique.

What gives him the right to marry such a wonderful woman?

His sister-in-law deserves someone better.

So if his brother won't give her up,

he'll take her.

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Theme: Stay positive and strive forward even in adversity.