Wen Ni’s childhood sweetheart ran away on their wedding day. The man who appeared out of nowhere tricked her into getting a marriage certificate. To make matters worse, they were twin brothers, both fixated on the same unattainable love. The most outrageous part? The younger brother, her childhood friend, died under mysterious circumstances. The elder brother then assumed his sibling’s identity, intending to woo his would-be sister-in-law under false pretenses. Wen Ni: What on earth? Very well, then. She would borrow a seed, get pregnant, inherit the family fortune, and become a widow so wealthy that money was all she had left. Yet she approached the wrong man, and disentangling herself proved more difficult than she imagined. On a stormy night, the man of supreme power spoke in a hoarse, desperate whisper, “Wen Ni, will loving me just once really kill you?” [A ruthless rivalry between men | A high-ranking man bows to love vs. the untouchable beauty brought to madness by passion vs. the wayward heart turned steadfast and true.]
Wen Ni placed a small pillow beneath her waist, her abdomen gently tensed, hoping that this time, she would conceive. The sticky sheets beneath her had already been changed. Yet, the elusive scent of sandalwood still lingered in the room.
She rated the man’s performance a six out of ten. He was considerate afterwards, inexperienced before, and far too wild during. She’d barely slept three hours last night; exhaustion weighed her down. Closing her eyes, she prepared to catch up on rest.
Suddenly, her phone erupted with shrill insistence. Wen Ni answered feebly, “Who is it?”
Her mother-in-law’s furious roar blasted through the speaker, “Even your husband’s younger uncle, who hasn’t returned in ten years, came to pay his respects, but you, his wife, are nowhere to be found! Where on earth have you gone? If you don’t get back here, I’ll skin you alive!”
Wen Ni held the phone away from her ear. “I’ll be right back,” she replied, and hung up, thoroughly vexed.
Uncle Zhou had come to mourn Zhou Mingfan, not for her! Oh, right. The deceased was not Zhou Mingfan, but his twin brother, Zhou Linchuan.
Originally, Wen Ni and Zhou Linchuan had been betrothed from childhood. There was no great love, but they were childhood companions.
On their wedding day, when they were both twenty-two, Shen Xue-ning showed up at the hotel entrance for just a moment, and Zhou Linchuan, without hesitation, abandoned Wen Ni at the wedding.
She had almost become the laughingstock of the entire capital.
It was then that his twin brother, Zhou Mingfan,