【Brother Takes Brother’s Wife + Deliberate Seduction】
(Dark vs. Dark — Wicked Heroine ✖️ Cold, Abstinent Young Master)
Content Warning: The heroine is delightfully wicked, and the author absolutely adores her~
In her past life, Pei Jingxu spent three lonely years as a widow, waiting for her husband Rong Xuanzhou, who was believed to have died on the battlefield.
But when he finally returned, he brought back a woman—Bai Shutong, the widow of his fallen comrade—along with her two children.
The Rong family urged Jingxu to be gentle and forgiving, while that woman’s beauty soon bewitched the entire capital. Even Rong Xuanzhou couldn’t resist her, showering her with tender care.
In the end, Jingxu became nothing more than a stepping stone in Bai Shutong’s story—the “vicious wife” fated to die so the heroine could shine. She was drowned in a lotus pond by one of Bai Shutong’s suitors, realizing too late that she had been living inside someone else’s tale.
Now reborn, Pei Jingxu knows better. Before the “beloved heroine” returns, she intends to find herself a protector strong enough to defy fate itself.
Her eyes fall on Rong Jianxue—her husband’s elder brother, the cold, ascetic Junior Tutor to the Crown Prince, a man as unapproachable as an immortal carved from ice.
That night, dressed in sheer silk and trembling with feigned fear, she knocks softly on his door.
“Brother-in-law… Second Brother isn’t here. I’m so scared…”
The prayer beads in Rong Jianxue’s hand tighten one by one, his gaze dark and dangerous.
When Rong Xuanzhou returns, he’s stunned—his once-devoted wife no longer clings to him. Instead, she’s often seen at his brother’s estate.
Thinking his brother will discipline her, he warns coldly:
“If you just admit your mistake, I’ll ask my brother to forgive you.”
Behind the screen, Rong Jianxue pulls Jingxu into his arms, his voice hoarse and low:
“She deserves to be punished.”
Later, when Pei Jingxu flees the capital, soldiers block the road. A tall figure steps out of the shadows, eyes blazing with obsession.
“You were right, A’xu,” he murmurs, voice thick with desire.
“We really should have a child.”
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