I Became a Stepmom by Proxy, and the Abstinent Big Shot Is Losing His Mind

[Transmigration + substitute bride + stepmother + adorable child + marriage first, love later + sweet romance]

Du Qingyuan, a surgeon, unexpectedly transmigrated to the 1970s. She became the only daughter of a highly educated family. She fell in love with someone but couldn't stay with him, and spent four years living in the countryside with relatives.

Then, two months ago, she fell into a lake during a thunderstorm. When she opened her eyes, all her memories were gone, and her second aunt was pressuring her to marry by playing the victim.

“Gu Zechuan gets his food rations through the army. Your cousin isn't fated to have him, so you should marry him and join him at the base. You'll have a good life.”

Gu Zechuan was engaged to her cousin. After he was wounded and left unable to have children, he took in his fallen comrade's orphan. Her cousin looked down on him, set her sights on a better match, and secretly promised herself to a man from the city with a wealthier family.

After losing her memory, Du Qingyuan married into the Gu family and began a new life. Her husband doted on her, standing up for her and slapping down her awful relatives, while silently protecting her past and her secrets.

Until everyone learned that Gu Zechuan couldn't have children, yet his wife was pregnant.

Du Qingyuan was falsely accused of having a lover outside the marriage. Furious, she brought the matter before Zhou Mingxia at headquarters...

Only then did Zhou Mingxia understand what he had lost: a regret and pain that no amount of sacrifice could ever undo.

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Zhou Mingxia had once loved a girl, but their different backgrounds made marriage impossible. Alone, he guarded the ruins in his heart as they slowly grew desolate.

They met again when he went to visit the troops.

Now he was a revered figure, high above the rest, while she seemed not to remember him at all.

He saw her standing beside someone else, now another man's wife.

The fire in his chest flickered and died, smoldering with four years of repressed obsession and longing. “You... really don't remember me?”