In a super sadistic ancient novel, the male lead and the second lead love the female lead to death, but they just can't be together.

It was a novel that he had read a long time ago. He remembered the plot very clearly, but he could not remember the title or the names of the characters. It seemed that he had read a paper novel at that time. The general plot was:
The female protagonist was taken away as a concubine by her father's murderer. The male protagonist wanted to abuse the female protagonist, but he did not expect to fall in love.
The female protagonist was bent on revenge and pretended to obey. She wanted to find an opportunity to assassinate the male protagonist. The male protagonist was well aware of all this and even secretly planned to let the female protagonist kill him once the matter was settled.
The female protagonist learned that her father had committed a heinous crime and was very conflicted. She gave up the idea of killing the male protagonist, but she still could not allow herself to be with the male protagonist. Therefore, she put on a show with the second male protagonist. She stabbed the male protagonist in the shoulder and pretended that the assassination had failed. Then, the second male protagonist faked her death. After that, the second male protagonist left the male protagonist's gang in order to apologize to the male protagonist. (The second male lead is the male lead's personal death attendant)
The second male lead led the female lead to live in seclusion in the mountains for a year. Although he loved the female lead deeply, he knew that the female lead still loved the male lead, so he restrained his feelings for the female lead.
The female protagonist caused the second male lead, who had a bright future, to become a farmer in the mountains. She felt guilty and forced herself to fall in love with the second male lead. The second male lead could not control himself and had already fallen out with the female protagonist. When he discovered the female protagonist's tears, he stopped in time and proposed to the female protagonist. The female protagonist was silent. When the second male lead and the female lead got married, the female lead cried. The second male lead wanted to stop, but the female lead lied that she felt that she was not clean enough and was not worthy of the second male lead. Not long after the marriage, the second male lead was killed by the female protagonist's enemy in order to protect the female protagonist. The male protagonist also discovered that the female protagonist was not dead and saved the female protagonist at the moment of life and death.
The female protagonist found that she still loved the male protagonist deeply, but she felt sorry for the dead male protagonist who still could not accept the male protagonist's love. She told the male protagonist that she loved the male protagonist deeply and married him. She also tattooed the male protagonist's name on her wrist.
The male protagonist believed that the female protagonist still hated him, so he could only protect the female protagonist in secret and save her again when the female protagonist was in danger.
When the male protagonist was dying, the female protagonist finally gave up all her worries and expressed her love for the male protagonist.
After the male protagonist recovered from his injury, the female protagonist changed her name and returned to the gang. When the two of them shared a room for the first time, the female protagonist saw the male protagonist cry for his scar. The tattoo on her wrist made her even more helpless, but the male lead said that he was very grateful to the second male lead.

I don't know if anyone has seen it before.

Answer 1

The name of this novel was " Fragrant Honey, Ashes Like Frost ". The male lead was Xu Feng, and the second male lead was Runyu. The two of them had always loved the female protagonist to the point of death, but they could not be together because of the female protagonist's mother. Later, the female protagonist found out that she also fell in love with Runyu, but because of Xufeng's existence, the two of them eventually did not get together. The plot of the novel was very heart-wrenching, allowing the readers to feel the complicated feelings between the male lead and the second lead, as well as the pain of not being able to be together.