Three Years After Becoming a Widow

[Forbidden romance, the husband chases his wife to win her back, an older brother fights his younger brother for his wife]

Shen Nian was born into a merchant family. With bright eyes and delicate beauty, she was betrothed, through her family's connections, to Wei Chifeng, the youngest legitimate son of the Duke of Zhenguo.

But the Shen family fell from power overnight, and Shen Nian's place in the duke's household became precarious.

She had hoped to rely on her husband to clear her family's name, but Wei Chifeng died mysteriously a month after their wedding.

Shen Nian was branded a husband-killer, ill-omened and cursed by fate, and became a widow.

Three years later, Wei Yunzhou, heir to the Duke of Zhenguo, returned home victorious. In a secluded courtyard, he came upon Shen Nian tending flowers with a maid.

The beauty was playfully charming, her every smile and frown utterly captivating. She showed no sign of grief over her husband's death.

Anger surged in Wei Yunzhou's heart. He crushed a delicate flower bud underfoot. "Your husband is dead, and you still have the heart to tend flowers?"

Shen Nian looked up, startled into retreating again and again. She held her slender fingers protectively before her and looked ready to cry. "Elder Brother, please hear me out."

Wei Yunzhou looked at his delicate, fair-skinned younger brother's wife and felt disgust. He wouldn't listen to her explanation and ordered her to kneel in the family shrine.

Life in the duke's household was already difficult for Shen Nian, and it became even harder after the heir returned. He made her kneel, copy books, and review the accounts.

His desire to control her gradually crossed the bounds between an elder brother and his younger brother's wife.

Until one night, when she went to deliver the accounts and he unexpectedly pulled her into his tent. The familiar scent and position were just like the night three years ago when he had left the capital.

Memories came flooding back. Shen Nian suddenly remembered that when she first arrived at the duke's household three years ago, the young master of the Wei family who had taken her into his arms for a night of passion had not been her husband, but Wei Yunzhou!

At first, Wei Yunzhou resented her for not grieving her late husband. Later, he thought she was too strict about maintaining propriety as a married woman.

"Niannian, I was the one who truly became your husband."

"Niannian, has he ever kissed you like I do?"

"Niannian, am I not good enough?"

Trapped in a world that had shrunk to a few feet around her, Shen Nian's almond-shaped eyes glistened red with tears. "But Elder Brother, you're going to get married..."

Single-couple romance, sweet story. The aloof heir falls for her step by step, fighting to claim her for himself. All the passion and pleasures of life!

Theme: Courageously face your own weaknesses