My Uncle's Gaze Is Anything But Innocent

As the illegitimate daughter of a prestigious family, Guan Yu was born beautiful and alluring. But since childhood, her principal wife stepmother had kept her down, leaving her timid and dutiful. She spent her whole life living meekly and miserably.

When she was seventeen, the Guan family joyfully arranged a marriage alliance with the prince's estate, egged on by the principal wife. The price was that Guan Yu had to marry into the estate to bring good fortune to a sick man.

The man she married was the heir, a frail young lord who suffered from countless illnesses and had been bedridden for years.

On their wedding night, her husband died of his illness. From then on, Guan Yu bore the ill-omened reputation, and life in the prince's estate became even harder. She endured the scorn and spite of her sisters-in-law and the other women of the household.

Unwilling to cause trouble, Guan Yu became ever more cautious, scrupulously observing propriety. For the sake of her chastity, she spent half her life alone in an empty bedroom.

In a lifetime of following the rules, the most outrageous thing she ever did was this:

When she had just married into the family, she couldn't yet tell the several young lords apart and didn't want to offend anyone, so she casually offered a polite smile to the third son of the prince, her husband's younger brother.

But her face was radiant, and that single smile was enough to make the childhood sweetheart who adored the third young lord secretly resent her for years.

That smile also earned her an undeserved stain on her reputation. People secretly made a scandal out of it for half her life, and in the end she died a wretched death at the hands of the mother-in-law she had trusted most.

Given another life, Guan Yu finally resolves to do things differently.

She looks at the man whose gaze has never left her since her previous life, always fixed on her. He is just as handsome and elegant as before. Back then, she had never dared look at him, always trying to avoid him.

Guan Yu thinks it over. Her soft, delicate lips, which she had meant to keep restrained, curve upward, and she smiles even more deeply at that familiar figure.

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Qi Yanzhi was born into privilege. Handsome and refined, he was the heir of the prince's estate who won the hearts of countless noblewomen in the capital without even trying.

Yet this man with such a brilliant future somehow developed feelings for someone he knew he should not desire.

Even he didn't understand what was happening to him.

How had he suddenly become so bewitched?

He actually tried everything he could just to stay by her side, even if all he could do was mind his place and be a good younger brother-in-law.

Later, for the sake of that tender, delicate smile that finally bloomed on Guan Yu's lips,

Qi Yanzhi cut through thorns, upended his entire life, and nearly lost his life in the process.

But as he lay in a pool of blood, looking at Guan Yu, as dazzling as he remembered and untouched by the slightest harm, he could only murmur with a smile:

"For my sister-in-law, even dying is worth it."

#My Younger Brother-in-Law Has Longed for Me in Two Lifetimes

#What's a Little Pain from Thorns When You're Picking Roses

1. Both leads are virgins. The male lead is six years younger.

2. The heroine marries into the prince's estate to bring good fortune. Her husband dies on their wedding night, and the marriage is never consummated.

3. Household intrigue + forbidden love

Theme: Love can overcome any obstacle