Widowed, Then Forcibly Marked by My Husband's Younger Brother

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Reader advisory: This novel contains a narrative trick and is very shou-coded.

EA | Sister-in-law romance | First love | Replacement romance | Fake homewrecker takes over

Amnesia | Reconciliation after a breakup | Lovers miss their chance | Brothers' love triangle | Captive in a hidden room | Pregnancy and running away

The latercomer fights and snatches his way to the top, while the former lover returns as the unexpected white moonlight.

Maximum melodrama, maximum fireworks. A sweet romance wrapped in an angsty shell.

In tribute 🫡 "I'm in love with another man's wife" sounds shameless, but what if the person I love became another man's wife? That would just be heartbreaking, TAT.

❤️An acting genius, honest and slow-witted 🐱 lean, muscular alpha

A cold-faced poser who says one thing and does another, a secretly irresistible golden retriever 🐶 miner enigma❤️

Blurb: (The marriage had ended before the funeral)

1

After her husband's death, Ji An developed pheromone dysregulation.

Hallucinations, vomiting, pseudo-heat. He could only rely on medication to wean himself off it.

By the third course of treatment, Ji An finally accepted that his husband was dead. His symptoms improved, and he prepared to take on a new role.

But at the funeral, he met his late husband's younger brother for the first time.

That mad enigma who'd been locked up in a psychiatric hospital.

Gu Yilin looked exactly like the husband in his dreams.

His condition relapsed unexpectedly. At a drinking party, Ji An was nearly driven out of his mind by the heat.

In the cramped private room, he saw his husband's face again.

Real, scorching, restrained.

Teeth sank into his gland, and the bitter-chocolate scent he'd longed for seeped into his body.

Ji An thought it was a dream and sank ever deeper into his hallucinations.

Once, twice, countless times.

He opened his shirt and offered his falsely pregnant, plump body to nurse him; kissed the cold, stern face; carefully released pheromones to soothe him during heat; held his knees in both hands and showed them off...

He stroked the familiar face obsessively and called out affectionately, "Honey, hold me. Tighter. Never leave me again."

His illness grew worse and worse.

He never wanted to take his medicine again.

Until Gu Ling cruelly tore open the truth.

Who was the A-Ling he called out for? Who was the husband in his memories?

Gu Yilin and Gu Ling had never looked alike.

Ji An had made a mistake and mistaken his lover for someone else for the second time.

2

At first, Gu Yilin only wanted to keep his distance from Ji An.

To stay away from that face that haunted his dreams, and not commit an unethical, disgraceful act.

Since Ji An was his brother's wife, he shouldn't have anything to do with him.

But later, he changed.

He wasn't content to be Ji An's medicine, and refused to be a meek stand-in for Gu Ling.

He wanted more: a mark, a child, a proper title.

He wanted to erase Gu Ling from Ji An's life completely.

Gu Yilin schemed relentlessly, arranging for Gu Ling to appear, exposing the illegitimate child, and forcing Ji An to face his former lover.

He wanted to make Ji An admit that the person he loved was Gu Yilin, and that the one he'd been whispering sweet nothings to was him, not his dead husband returned from the grave.

He wore Ji An down bit by bit, but Ji An still ran away.

By the time Gu Yilin caught up with him, his cheeks were gaunt, his belly was swollen, and he spent every day using high-concentration pheromones to keep himself going.

The pregnant alpha coldly called him uncle, his eyes darting as he lied.

"I'm married." The mark on Ji An's ring finger was hidden beneath a diamond ring, so small Gu Yilin didn't want to look at it. "This is my husband's child."

So confidently did Ji An insist that Gu Yilin was even more determined to be a legitimate homewrecker for once.

He wanted Ji An to love him until his bones and blood turned to mud.

Even if Ji An's heart wasn't in it and he didn't want to.

Extra scene:

A day spent looking after pregnant An'an (an unsuccessful pursuit of his wife)

Golden retriever Lin's string of pity plays: (hands trembling) The psychiatric hospital fried my brain with electroshock... An'an, help me check it, TAT.

An'an takes a look, only to be pulled into a bear hug with his face buried against a chest. The whole cat turns red in seconds.

A certain someone gets what he wants, be like: take a bite and look ➡️ take a bite and give a kiss ➡️ dog head slowly moves down ➡️ gets beaten up by An'an.

Theme: Love between equals