Female-to-male transmigration, marriage plot, 1v1 romance.
The editor only allowed it in the BG (boy-girl) category.
Not great at writing plot—only good at writing improper things and niche preferences. If you’re not the target audience, please don’t click!

Xiao Huaijin transmigrated overnight and became the illegitimate son of a Duke’s household—a man this time. His father did not love him, and he had no mother to rely on.

Yet he had high standards and fell for Pei Jingyuan, the breathtakingly beautiful and elegant daughter of the Assistant Minister of Personnel—a woman who was originally engaged to his legitimate elder brother.

Fortunately for him, luck was on his side.

Three days before the wedding, his elder brother died, and he was “left with no choice” but to take his place and marry her.

He always knew that Pei Jingyuan still held feelings for his deceased brother in her heart, but it didn’t matter. As long as she stayed by his side, whether or not she gave him her heart was irrelevant.

When Pei Jingyuan learned that her fiancé had died, yet she still had to marry into the Xiao family, her heart turned to ashes.

But only after marrying Xiao Huaijin did she come to understand what true love really was.

Xiao Huaijin whispered softly by her ear:

“If you truly find me unbearable, you may think of me as him instead.”

Pei Jingyuan: “…”