Stealing My Widowed Sister-in-Law

1v2 love triangle | Coercive pursuit | Faking death | Running away while pregnant

Wen Yunhan was beautiful, gentle, and the model of a refined young lady in the capital.

The late emperor arranged her marriage to Prince Jing. The two were a loving couple, always together.

Yet Xiao Zhe, Prince Ning, who was as close as a brother to Prince Jing, always wore a grim expression. He would often fix Prince Jing's wife with a deep, mournful gaze.

Everyone said Xiao Zhe was jealous that Prince Jing had won the emperor's favor.

Xiao Zhe was indeed jealous of Prince Jing, because his sister-in-law wasn't his wife, and she was in his dreams instead of by his side at night.

In the 18th year of Anqing, Prince Jing died, and his wife went to live in a temple. That same year, Prince Ning, Xiao Zhe, ascended the throne.

From then on, the new emperor often stayed at the temple, claiming it was to pray for the country.

But only Wen Yunhan knew that Xiao Zhe spent every day entwined with her, all through the night.

Still unsatisfied, Xiao Zhe wanted to use another woman's identity to lure Wen Yunhan into the palace as his consort.

Disgusted by Xiao Zhe's behavior, Wen Yunhan plotted to escape the temple, only to find her former husband, Prince Jing, who had been presumed dead for ages.

Overjoyed and in tears, she looked into her beloved's eyes and fell into despair.

Xiao Zhe appeared before her first and had her taken to the palace.

Xiao Zhe understood that she still longed for her beloved, so he personally brought Prince Jing to her.

"Sister-in-law, my brother has returned. Would you rather be empress, or a dead woman?"

Wen Yunhan glared coldly at him. "Xiao Zhe, you lust after your brother's wife and usurped the throne by changing the imperial edict. Do you have any regard at all for the bonds between brothers?"

Xiao Zhe gently patted her flushed cheek, then clamped a hand around her neck and made her look at Prince Jing, who was bleeding profusely on the ground.

"Dear sister-in-law, dear Yunhan, he has what I have, and I have what he doesn't."

Xiao Zhe was mad.

Wen Yunhan was afraid of him. She set the palace on fire and died before his eyes.

From then on, the emperor left his harem empty and became sick with grief.

Until one day, while traveling in Jiangnan, he came across a mother and her child.

"My widowed sister-in-law is virtuous and refined. She would make a fine empress."

My sister-in-law is as beautiful as a goddess, gentle and refined. She should be mine.

He remembered.

When they were children, Wen Yunhan had come to the palace, given him a piece of lotus-seed pastry, gifted him an embroidered handkerchief, and saved him from drowning.

Reading Guide:

1. A good man turns a widow into his wife, and the widow gets bullied.

2. He's going after his brother's wife. The female lead has experience, the male lead doesn't. This one's a bit crazy. The heroine can love whoever she wants, so please don't come after me over it.

3. The male lead's perspective is skewed. The heroine didn't mean anything by what she did, the pastries were for everyone, the handkerchief fell by accident, and she saved him from drowning simply because she was kind.

4. The male lead is still very unhinged: a scheming, cruel, possessive, yandere ghost of a man. He's got every nasty trait in the book and very little sense of morality.

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