The young couple had been married for three years but still hadn’t conceived a child. To save face as a man and keep Song Xi under his thumb for the rest of her life, Gu Shichun came up with a plan to have a child using another man’s seed.
But the plan was exposed, and Song Xi asked for a divorce.
After their divorce, Gu Shichun couldn’t let go of his resentment and kept hoping Song Xi would change her mind and marry him again.
He waited and waited. Not only did Song Xi thrive in both her career and her studies after the divorce, he also learned she had married someone else. And the man she married was Gu Shichun’s cousin, Gu Shiming!
