Stealing the Brother-in-Law’s Wife; The Mad Military Commander Presses Step by Step

Ling Xiao returned home in triumph with glorious military merit, only to hear that his restless elder brother's wife had colluded with an outside lover and caused his chronically ill elder brother's death.

He looked at the woman kneeling before the coffin, dressed in plain white mourning clothes, slender as a willow branch, with brows and eyes like dark ink, crying in a way that made her seem pitiful and lovely.

He lifted her narrow chin with his long sword, killing intent surging: "A bewitching vixen must be executed!"

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Later, after she proved her innocence, he still loathed her because his elder brother had died because of her.

He warned her: "Put away your thoughts of seducing men. If you cannot behave and honestly keep widowhood for my elder brother, I will still kill you."

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Later still, whenever she saw him she would hide; whenever he spoke, she would tremble, avoiding him like the plague.

Yet deep in the night he pressed her into a corner by the wall, rough fingertips greedily stroking her face: "Why don't you come seduce me?"

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Love is willing defeat, a cage drawn on the ground, kneeling in submission.

(Dual clean, the first husband was truly a gentleman)