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Married by Mistake to My Ex-Husband’s Brother

Married by Mistake to My Ex-Husband’s Brother

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last updateLast Updated : 2026-06-01
By:  Damilare Ongoing
Language: English
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Contemporary

Dark Romance

Drama

Dominant

Heir/Heirness

CEO

Contract Marriage

Flash Marriage

Misunderstanding

On what was supposed to be the beginning of a perfect marriage, everything went wrong. Betrayed by fate and trapped in a family arrangement she could not escape, she walked down the aisle believing she was marrying the man her life had been tied to for years. But the moment the vows were sealed, the truth shattered her world. The man standing before her was not the one she was promised. He was her ex-husband’s brother. Cold, powerful, and dangerously unreadable, he had no intention of correcting the mistake. Instead, he claimed it, binding her to a marriage neither of them had planned, yet neither was willing to walk away from. As buried secrets begin to surface and old wounds are torn open, she finds herself caught between a past that refuses to let her go and a present that is far more complicated than she ever imagined. Her ex-husband, now filled with regret, is determined to win her back, while the man she was never meant to marry proves to be far more possessive, protective, and unpredictable than she expected. What began as a mistake soon becomes something neither of them can control. In a world where love, power, and betrayal collide, she must decide whether to hold on to the life she once knew or risk everything for the man she was never supposed to love.

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Chapter 1

CHAPTER 1: THE WRONG GROOM

七歲那年，為了救蕭行止，我代他喝下了毒酒，險死還生，卻從此再也聽不到任何聲音。

他滿心愧疚。

主動求了父母，與我訂下婚約，保證道：

「阿泠，別怕，從今往後我便是你的耳朵。我會照顧你一生一世。」

可在我及笄那年。

他為了維護他的心上人，

在我的及笄宴上，當著眾多好友的面，嫌惡地說我：

「沈泠那個聾子，我早就受夠她了！」

「七歲那年她喝下的那杯毒酒，為什麼沒能直接毒死她！」

我怔在原地，沒吭聲。

他不知道，路過的藥王給我施了銀針，我已經可以聽見聲音了。

回府後，我撕碎了京城女官考選，收拾東西決定跟父母一起去邊疆駐守。

蕭行止，從此山高路遠。

你我，各自安好。

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「有時候我真恨啊，沈泠七歲那年為什麼沒有死透，為什麼偏要被救回來！？」

蕭行止話音剛落，周圍立刻附和起來：

「還不如沒救回來呢！變成了一個聽不見的廢物，只會拖累身邊人，我要是她，早就去死了。」

「就是，也不知道她哪兒來的臉挾恩圖報，讓小公爺為她賠上一輩子？」

「要我說，還是小公爺太仁慈。換作是我，早就讓她『意外』落水好幾回了，省得礙眼。」

鬨笑聲中，每一句話都像淬了毒的刀子，從四面八方扎來。

我僵在原地。

緊緊攥著手掌，不知該如何是好。

這些年來，父親為了治療我的耳疾四處求醫，總算是在我及笄前一日尋到藥王，幫我治好了耳朵。

從此我再也不用依賴看別人口型，才能知道他們在說些什麼了。

我想著在蕭行止特意為我準備的及笄宴上，告訴他這個好消息。

我想要告訴他。

以後我就能聽到了，我就不再是他的累贅了。

今天，及笄當日。

我聽他的話，用紅綢蒙著眼睛，由他牽著來看他為我準備的驚喜。

卻沒有想到，我聽到他說的第一句話，竟是這樣明晃晃的厭惡和憎恨。

心臟被戳得生疼，我抬頭看向蕭行止的方向，想問他為什麼。

可蕭行止卻絲毫沒有注意到我。

他抬手制止了那些鬨笑，說道：

「好了，差不多行了。」

「畢竟她當年救了我，說這些話注意場合，別鬧到她面前。」

眾人立馬心領神會。

「行，我們保證守口如瓶。」

「沈泠能嫁進蕭家，一輩子當個聾子也值了。」

「只是委屈了綰綰姑娘。」

話落又是一陣鬨笑。

在一片唏噓聲中，江綰綰柔聲開口：

「大家別這麼說，沈姑娘她……畢竟身有殘缺，性情孤僻些也是常情。只要能和阿止在一起，我承受什麼都不覺得委屈。」

聽到這話，蕭行止滿眼心疼，轉而面向眾人，鄭重宣布：

「即便將來我娶了沈泠為妻，在我心裡，真正的妻子永遠只有綰綰一人。」

江綰綰……

那個他最近經常在我面前提起的，溫柔小意、賣芙蓉糕的女子。

她輕扯著蕭行止的衣袖，淚眼盈盈：

「阿止，你實在不必為了我做到如此地步，我不值得的。」

蕭行止溫柔地為她拭淚，低聲道：

「綰綰，你值得。」
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​"I expected a cliché revenge romance, but this is an intricate web of manipulation and corporate power plays. Ethan is a compelling, calculated male lead, and Amara’s survival instinct makes her the perfect foil. The romance is earned through intense dialogue and shared danger. you need to read it
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CHAPTER 1: THE WRONG GROOM
The moment I stepped into the aisle, something felt off.Not wrong in a loud, obvious way. Not the kind of thing anyone else would notice. But something inside me tightened, pulling like a quiet warning I could not bring myself to ignore.This is not right.I forced my feet forward anyway.The music swelled around me, elegant and carefully rehearsed, the kind of melody designed to calm nerves and manufacture perfect memories. But it only pressed the tension deeper. Each note landed against my skin like a reminder that this moment had been too precisely arranged.Too controlled.Too final.I tightened my grip on the bouquet. My fingers were trembling despite every effort I made to hold steady. Each step felt heavier than the last, like I was walking into something I would never be able to undo.Because I was.This marriage was not love.It was survival.The night before, my father had stood in front of me with an expression harder than I had ever seen on his face. Not the careful stern
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CHAPTER 2: NO WAY OUT
The moment his words settled into the air, something around me changed.You are my wife now.The sentence would not leave. It pressed against the inside of my skull, wrapped around my thoughts with a persistence that felt almost physical, like something with weight and intention had lodged itself behind my eyes and refused to move.No.I took a step back, shaking my head before I had even made the conscious decision to do it."No," I said again, and this time I pushed more into the word. More resistance. More certainty. "That is not true."But even as I said it, the ring on my finger pulled my attention downward. I felt its weight in a way I had not felt it during the ceremony, when everything had been moving too fast for any single detail to fully register.It sat there, quiet and undeniable.A silent contradiction to everything I had just said.Ethan did not move.He simply watched me, with that same quality of stillness he had carried through the entire ceremony. Calm. Unshaken. Ce
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CHAPTER 3: THE RULES OF HIS HOUSE
I did not sleep. Not really. I lay on top of the covers in the guest room with my shoes still on and the ceiling above me doing nothing useful, and I thought until thinking started to feel like running in circles. The room was beautiful in the way that expensive things are beautiful, polished and intentional and completely without warmth. The sheets were probably worth more than anything in my old apartment. The silence was the kind that costs money. I stared at it all and felt none of it. My mind kept returning to the same fixed points. The ceremony. The veil lifting. Ethan's face replacing the face I had prepared myself to see. My own voice saying words I could not now unsay. And then, later, his voice outside this very door. You already did. I had not answered him. I had simply looked at him, at that controlled face with its unreadable expression, and then I had stepped back and closed the door between us. And he had let me. That was the part I kept turning over. He had let m
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CHAPTER 4: HIS RULES BEGIN
The knock came again before I had even decided whether to open the door.Slower this time. Heavier. With the particular rhythm of someone who was not asking permission but simply announcing a presence that intended to be acknowledged.I already knew it was him.Ethan Sterling did not knock the way ordinary people knocked, with the slight uncertainty of someone who understood they might not be welcome. He knocked the way he did everything else, with the quiet certainty of a man who had never seriously entertained the possibility of being turned away.I exhaled once, slowly, the way you breathe before stepping into cold water, and walked to the door.When I opened it, he was exactly where I expected him to be. Still. Composed. Watching me with that steady, unreadable attention that I was beginning to understand was not a performance. It was simply how he moved through the world, as though everything around him was information worth collecting.His gaze dropped immediately to my hand.Em
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CHAPTER 5: WHAT WAS ALWAYS MINE
I did not move for a full three seconds.Maybe longer. Time had stopped doing reliable things since yesterday, and standing in that dining room with Ethan's words still hanging in the air between us, I found I could not immediately locate the part of myself that knew how to respond to something like this.It was always meant to be me.The sentence sat in my chest like something swallowed wrong. Not painful exactly, but impossible to ignore, pressing against things on its way down."Say that again," I said.Not because I had not heard him. I had heard every syllable with the kind of clarity that comes when your body decides something matters and sharpens your senses accordingly. I said it because I needed him to repeat it while I watched his face, while I looked for the flicker that would tell me whether this was strategy or truth or some particular combination of the two that men like Ethan Sterling had probably perfected over years.He looked at me steadily."Your marriage was always
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CHAPTER 6: THE COST OF KNOWING
I did not sleep again that night.This was becoming a pattern, and I was aware enough to recognize that the house itself was partly responsible. Not because it was uncomfortable. The bed was the kind of expensive that you felt in your spine, the sheets the kind of soft that made you understand why people with money slept differently than everyone else. But comfort and rest were not the same thing, and my mind had decided, apparently without consulting me, that it was not done processing.I lay on my back and stared at the ceiling and thought about my father.Not about Ethan. Not about Daniel or contracts or the particular quality of Ethan's voice when he said I chose you like it was something he had decided with the same deliberateness he brought to everything else. I would get to all of that. But first, there was my father.Because that was the part I kept returning to, the part that sat differently from everything else.Ethan had manipulated the situation. That was true and I was no
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CHAPTER 7: TERMS OF CONTROL
I did not sleep.Not even close to it. The room was too quiet, too perfectly arranged, too precisely controlled, and somewhere underneath all that surface stillness I kept hearing his voice. The ceiling offered nothing useful. The expensive sheets felt like a performance. Even the quality of the dark in that room felt curated, as though the house managed its own atmosphere according to preferences I had not been consulted about.It was always meant to be me.The sentence had set up residence somewhere behind my sternum and refused to vacate. I turned it over and over the way you turn over a problem that does not have a clean solution, looking for the edge that would let me pull it apart, finding none.This was not a marriage. It was a plan. And I was inside it, had been inside it, apparently, before I had any idea there was an it to be inside.I sat at the edge of the bed as the light began to change behind the curtains, early and grey and without any of the warmth that made mornings
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CHAPTER 8: OUTSIDE HIS SHADOW
The moment I stepped through the front door, I felt it.Air. Real, unmanaged air, moving against my face without permission from anyone. Sunlight that had not been arranged to fall at a particular angle. The small sounds of the city at a distance, indifferent and ordinary and belonging to no one.I stopped at the top of the steps and just breathed for a moment.This is mine. This specific second, this particular quality of light, this breath. Not his. Not part of any plan or structure or arrangement. Just mine.Then I walked forward, and I did not look back, because looking back was something I could not afford in a house where every hesitation was observed and filed and used to build a more accurate picture of exactly where I could be pressured.The car was already waiting at the bottom of the steps.Of course it was.Black and polished and silent, parked with the precision of something placed rather than arrived. A driver standing beside the rear door with the particular stillness o
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CHAPTER 9: UNINVITED RETURN
The moment I stepped back through the front door, I felt it.Not tension, exactly. Something quieter than tension, something that lived underneath it. The particular quality of a space that had noted your absence and was now registering your return, recalibrating around your presence. I had lived in ordinary houses my whole life and none of them had ever felt like they were paying attention. This one did.I closed the door behind me and stood in the entrance hall for a moment, my thoughts still carrying the weight of my father's office, his voice, the specific quality of the silence he had produced when I told him I deserved the truth.You only have to live it.No. That was his version of this. I was not going to make it mine.I slipped off my heels and set them neatly beside the door, a small and private act of claiming something, of saying this square foot of marble at least is mine to arrange as I choose. Then I straightened and breathed and prepared to navigate whatever came next.
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CHAPTER 10: WHEN HE RETURNS
The front door slammed with the kind of force that was not accidental.It moved through the house like a physical thing, that sound, bouncing off the polished surfaces and the precise angles and all the carefully maintained stillness of a space that was not used to being interrupted. Too loud for the building. Too forceful for the hour. The kind of entrance that announced itself before the person making it came into view.I froze on the staircase, my hand tightening against the railing without my deciding to do it.Of course he came.I had known, somewhere in the part of me that had been paying very close attention to the shape of this situation, that Daniel was not finished. Ethan had just told me as much, and I had barely had time to absorb it before the proof arrived through the front door with all the subtlety of a weather event.I turned slowly on the step, looking back down into the entrance hall.Ethan had not moved.He stood exactly where I had left him, composed and still, wi
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