After Breaking Off Her Engagement, the Sickly Concubine Is Relentlessly Pursued by a Twisted Powerbroker

[Honest, beautiful concubine-born daughter × brooding, unhinged nobleman] As the concubine-born daughter of a minor official, Tong Ning had no say in her own marriage. When the Marquis of Yongning’s household chose her as their future daughter-in-law, the whole capital envied her good fortune. But after half a year in the residence, her wedding date still hadn’t been set, and her fiancé paid her no attention. To avoid being thrown out of the marquis’s residence, she decided to make the first move, only to have a disaster of a man interfere. And this disaster of a man was the second young master, her future brother-in-law! After finally managing to get the marquis’s household to agree, she was overjoyed and began preparing for the wedding. Then the heir died. She went from being envied by everyone, to mocked by everyone, and finally to despised by everyone. Fortunately, the heir had felt some affection for her, and even arranged a potential match for her after his death. But when she hurried over, the person who opened the door was that same disaster of a man. “Shen Changhui, why is it you?” Tong Ning trembled and tried to flee. Only to discover that the door was locked. He stood in front of her, his eyes full of madness. “Ningning, who do you want to see? Wouldn’t it be nice if we stayed together for the rest of our lives?” They were all insane, every last one of them! “Are you crazy? I nearly married your older brother!” “Ningning, you said it yourself: nearly, not actually. Beyond the frontier, sons inherit from their fathers, and younger brothers take their elder brothers’ wives!” “This isn’t beyond the frontier!” “That doesn’t matter. He and I... aren’t real brothers!”