After I Mistakenly Seduced My Cold, Aloof Older Brother-in-Law

[Pregnancy before love | Wooing her through schemes and forceful pursuit | Coming next, please add it to your collection~]

Su Qingyuan was born into a merchant family, and the family calligraphy and painting shop was struggling.

Her elder brother and sister-in-law ran the household and treated her harshly at every turn. Unhappy with her circumstances, she was determined to rise above her station and become a phoenix among the branches.

Just then, the second young master of the Huo family in the capital, Huo Ling, came to study at an academy in Jiangnan and bought a painting from the Su family. He fell in love with her at first sight.

After several encounters, she tricked Huo Ling, and while they were drunk, the two became intimate.

Huo Ling was a young scholar experiencing love for the first time. Before long, he said he would return to the capital, persuade his parents, and send betrothal gifts to marry her.

Su Qingyuan thought happiness was just around the corner. As expected, however, the news came that the Huo family's elders thought her background too lowly for her to marry into their family.

Unwilling to let this opportunity slip away, she came up with a plan: marry into the family by getting pregnant first.

Around that time, the family calligraphy and painting shop hired a new copyist.

He was young and handsome, with broad shoulders and long legs, and spoke with warmth and courtesy. Su Qingyuan took one look at him and thought he seemed reliable in every way. If she could win him over, she wouldn't be settling for less.

She showered him with sweet words and seduced him at every turn. At last, she got what she wanted, and they spent the night together once, then again.

A month later, she discovered she was pregnant. She promptly left the man behind, traveled alone to the capital, and knocked on the Huo family's door.

Because she was carrying the Huo family's legitimate grandson, they accepted the marriage.

At last, Su Qingyuan felt at ease.

When the Huo family's eldest son heard that his younger brother was engaged, he hurried back to offer his congratulations. Su Qingyuan went out with the elders to welcome him, but when she saw her future brother-in-law, her heart skipped a beat and her legs went weak.

The man she had been intimate with several times was staring straight at her with sharp, sinister eyes.

As a great general stationed in the northwest, Huo Sheng was summoned back to the capital and tasked with uncovering the spies hiding in Suzhou.

He made a living at a local calligraphy and painting shop while undercover as a copyist.

The young lady of the shop kept finding excuses to get close to him and flirt. Because he was living under someone else's roof under a false identity, he couldn't reject her outright.

But the woman only grew bolder, flirting and seducing him. In all his life, he had never met such a frivolous, shameless woman.

Still, she was fair-skinned and beautiful, with a sweet voice and alluring charm. Since she had thrown herself at him, he decided to indulge her.

After several passionate encounters, he became addicted to her and thought that once he returned to the capital, it might be nice to take her back as a concubine.

But she vanished right under his nose.

He felt insulted and played for a fool, and vowed that if he ever found her, he would punish her severely.

After returning to the capital, he met the woman who was about to marry his younger brother after getting pregnant. She seemed guilty, dodging him at every turn like a frightened rabbit.

He closed in on her, staring at her pale face, and taunted her publicly with a suggestive, malicious smile. "Sister-in-law, why not tell them how exactly the child you're carrying was conceived?"

Important notes:

1. Happy ending, one-to-one pairing, and both the male and female leads are virgins.

2. From the time the heroine met the male lead until she became pregnant, she had no betrothal contract with the second male lead. After conceiving the male lead's child, she never married the second male lead. The heroine does not cheat, and the leads are not related at any point in the story.

3. The blurb was written on August 29, 2026. The original inspiration dates to July 28, 2026. Screenshots of both have been saved as proof.

4. I had no inspiration for the previous planned novel, so I changed the blurb to this one. If you don't like it, feel free to remove it from your collection.

Theme: You deserve to be a little kinder to yourself.