Marrying My Husband's Older Brother

Upcoming novels: The Noble Consort After Losing Her Memory, Broken Branches, The Noble Consort Is Deeply Favored by the Emperor

[Clingy, demanding little darling X aloof gentleman] Main story complete

Xie Huaizhu is the daughter of a minor official, yet her beauty is breathtaking, and everyone envies her betrothal.

Her fiance dotes on her and swears never to take a concubine. Even after his twin brother recognizes him and brings him back to the Duke's residence, he still insists that he will marry no one but her.

The Pei family is a distinguished clan with a history of a hundred years and an upright family tradition. In particular, her fiance's elder brother, who resembles him, is stern and proper but treats the couple with great care. Xie Huaizhu is very satisfied with this marriage arrangement.

However, three months after the wedding, Xie Huaizhu runs into her husband's unsmiling elder brother. As she bows to greet him, she catches sight of a bite mark near his neck.

Its size and location are exactly the same as the mark she left on her husband the previous night.

Xie Huaizhu forces herself to stay calm. But that very night, as she nestles in her husband's arms once more, she catches the scent she noticed during the day.

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Pei Xuanzhang, heir to the Duke of Zhenguo, is upright and composed. Though young, he already wields great power, yet he has little interest in women and remains unmarried.

Raised on family teachings from childhood, he is a model of noble conduct and aspires to bring peace and order to the realm. So when his mother asks him to marry his younger brother's bride in his place, he finds the request absurd and flatly refuses.

Besides, he has no affection for such a delicate beauty, and she is his younger brother's wife. How could they commit such an immoral act!

But later, he puts on the wedding robe he wore that day again, holding the very sister-in-law he once avoided in his arms as they cling to each other. Again and again, he asks, "Wen Niang, open your eyes and tell me, who am I?"

He violates every moral code and is dragged into a bottomless mire from which there is no escape. He struggles and sinks deeper, until at last he regards it as a paradise of bliss. Even if he must suffer every hardship for it, he accepts it gladly.

[Little scene]

The second young master of the Duke of Zhenguo's household returns after faking his death, only to be told that his wife has divorced him and found another lover.

Yet as soon as he climbs into the Xie family's garden, he catches his wife's new lover in the act of meeting her in secret.

Under the moon, his wife is held in the arms of the elder brother he once respected, kissing him. Her belly is already swollen.

Pei Xuanzhang glances at him indifferently. Their eyes meet, and he draws the beauty in his arms even closer, gently soothing her.

Blood covers the ground. A sharp sword points at his chest, and the elder brother who once protected and indulged him now looks coldly at him. "Second brother, you should never have come back."

The male lead married the female lead from the very beginning. There was no affair while they were still related by marriage.

New upcoming novel

The Noble Consort After Losing Her Memory (original title: The Emperor Is Determined to Love Her)

[Amnesiac, charming beauty and love con artist X emperor and his son] Please see the end of this blurb and the author's note in Chapter One for content warnings.

Shen Youyi knows that her family sent her into the imperial palace so she could rise to the top.

She does everything she can to get close to the Crown Prince, finally making him fall for her and swear eternal vows.

But one day, she transmigrates and finds herself five years in the future, inhabiting Wei Lanzhen's body.

The good news: she has risen to the top and become a noble consort. The bad news: her husband isn't the Crown Prince, but the Crown Prince's father, Emperor Yuanshuo.

Worse still, in those five years the Crown Prince has married and had a child, yet has hopelessly fallen in love with his stepmother. Holding her with red-rimmed eyes, he asks her to wait ten more years.

The usually dignified and noble emperor is a different person in front of her, patiently and gently comforting her. "A Zhen, one day you'll remember me."

Shen Youyi: ???

[The emperor's perspective]

Emperor Yuanshuo spent half his life on the battlefield and nearly twenty years on the throne before he met the woman who would move him most in his life, in the home of one of his officials.

She is alluring and sly, bold by nature, as if she has no idea what propriety is. After just one glance at him, she dares to drug the emperor and climb into his bed.

After a night of passion, her hair is disheveled and she weeps like a pear blossom in the rain. Yet when she looks at him, her eyes are full of seduction, and the corners of her lips tilt up slightly. Like a cat that's gotten its paws on something tasty, she says, "I lost control of myself for a moment. Your Majesty may punish me as you see fit."

Even though she isn't truly a woman of noble birth, and even though her husband has died, he defies all objections and brings her into his harem. He makes plans for her future and instructs the Crown Prince to respect his stepmother.

But later, he learns that all her flattery was false and that she gave herself to him only because she had no choice.

When they meet again, he intends to settle their score piece by piece. But his noble consort has lost all her memories and says her surname is Shen.

He ascended the throne as a young man, pacified the realm, and made all under heaven bow to him. Yet he fell right into the hands of one young woman.

And this woman has not only had a husband before, but also a mysterious lover before her marriage.

[Little scene]

By Taiye Lake, red petals scatter across the boat. A light shawl cannot conceal the beauty's radiant springtime charms. Shen Youyi, eyes brimming with tears, says, "I really don't remember this place at all."

The emperor smiles and lowers his head, tucking a red lotus petal into her hair before kissing her cheek. "That's all right. I remember, and that's enough."

Every place where she met the Crown Prince in secret is etched into his memory, and he will visit each one with her.

Let her forget everything from before. It is best if she never remembers anyone else for the rest of her life.

Her Favor as Noble Consort Is at Its Peak

[The rise of a willful, scheming, favored concubine]

Three years after entering the palace, Ning Chiying is still the lowest-ranking cleaning maid in Lady Yang's residence.

Lady Yang has fallen out of favor, and Ning Chiying is punished alongside her by Jiang Pin, who has only just entered the palace.

One autumn afternoon, the emperor is in the mood for a boat ride on Taiye Lake. He sees many palace servants kneeling on the ground as punishment, but his gaze lingers on just one of them.

The woman's features are elegant, her face radiant. A few strands of her black hair are damp with sweat, yet she refuses to bow her head.

But when her soft gaze accidentally meets his, she hurriedly looks away.

At first, everyone in the harem assumes the emperor has merely taken a fancy to some palace maid. A beautiful maid with no family or children can only rise as high as Jieyu.

Yet in just two years, Ning Chiying climbs from palace maid to Meiren, then to Jieyu, Zhaoyi, and finally Noble Consort.

Flowers never bloom for a hundred days, but Noble Consort Ning keeps rising step by step, her favor never fading, until she monopolizes the emperor's affection.

She knows an emperor's feelings are fickle, but she spent three years living on tears mixed with rice. Ning Chiying knows exactly what she wants.

She wants to enjoy this wealth and splendor forever. No matter what it takes, she will climb to the top.

Theme: Love means learning to show respect