Coveting [GB]

When Chu Qing was twenty-one, her older brother brought home a handsome young man.

It was supposed to be an ordinary meeting, but through countless midnight dreams, Chu Qing could never forget the man's cool, refined air, or the smug grin on her brother's face when he told her to call him sister-in-law.

So when Chu Qing was reborn at twenty, before her brother had even met the handsome young man, she naturally drew close to him, cared for him, gently coaxed him, and finally made him hers.

Later, Chu Qing contentedly traced the features of the person sleeping beside her. The sleeper slowly opened his eyes, amber irises brimming with a love and longing too deep to conceal.

Chu Qing knew that, like her brother, she hadn't won fair and square. Perhaps it was because they shared the same blood.

But it didn't matter. In the end, she was the only one who could win, because she'd coveted him for years.

P.S.:

1. Neither the male lead nor the heroine's brother is gay. They're just friends.

2. The male lead is physically and emotionally pure in both lifetimes.

-- Below is the preview for the period novel A Male Fox Spirit GB --

A new male educated youth arrived in the village, as pretty as a male fox spirit.

One look was all it took for the villagers to know he was a master at seducing people. They said that on his very first day in the countryside, he'd charmed the eldest daughter of the Xie family into carrying his luggage all the way for him.

The villagers also said he looked too delicate to do any hard labor. They said he hadn't been there for long before he stopped working in the fields, and charmed the eldest Xie daughter into diligently tilling the land in his place.

After that, the villagers were always seeing the eldest Xie daughter doing chores for the male educated youth, or wandering past the entrance to the youth settlement for no reason. They began to worry for the honest, hardworking, strong Xie Shu: that man clearly wasn't the sort to care for a household. Xie Shu would have a lot to worry about if she married him.

Xie Shu, who was only helping the educated youth with some chores on the side so she could buy candy for her little sister: Huh? Who's marrying him? Me?

But the villagers wouldn't listen to Xie Shu's explanations. They were all convinced she'd already fallen hopelessly in love.

One rainy night, Xie Shu finally couldn't hold back any longer and called the male educated youth out. She said earnestly, "Comrade, could I trouble you to explain things to the villagers? After all, I still plan to marry a wife someday..."

Just then, a flash of lightning split the sky. In the brief daylight, the young man's formerly smiling face turned dark as a storm cloud. He looked like a beautiful male ghost as he glared at her, then ran out into the rain.

While caring for the handsome young man after he came down with a fever from getting soaked, Xie Shu saw him turn his face away, looking embarrassed as he murmured like a mosquito, "You can only marry me."

Xie Shu froze. Then she started thinking: So you want to be my wife? Why didn't you just say so?

Theme: Working together to build a better life