Is It Disdain or True Love?

“I’m” Wu Lei, a boy adopted in a mountain village, or, more accurately, trafficked there. My adoptive parents took me in simply to carry on the family line and support them in their old age. But as I grew up obedient, sensible, clever, and eager to learn, they came to love me dearly and did everything they could to help me get an education. Yet when I finished my studies and planned to stay at school, they suddenly realized they were getting old and needed me by their side. So they arranged a matchmaking date and urged me to settle down and build a career, tearing me away from my first love, Fu Ying. It wasn’t that I lacked the courage to resist. I just couldn’t bear to break my adoptive parents’ hearts. And Fu Ying’s family was better off than mine; her parents weren’t too keen on us either, so I felt I wasn’t good enough for her. I decided to start a family of my own, both to look after my adoptive parents and to spare Fu Ying from an awkward situation… But years later, we somehow became entangled all over again. And my current wife, Li Yaru, has even teamed up with my first love’s mother to humiliate me… I’m seriously at my wit’s end with these women!