The Sweet, Gentle Stand-In Refuses to Remarry

[Complete] An intensely satisfying groveling pursuit, a dangerously obsessive lead, happy ending, both leads’ first and only love

Gentle and resilient ✘ deranged, depraved stray dog

Ji Xuyuan thinks there’s no one in the world more pathetic than Sheng Nuonuo. He loves Ji beyond reason and is willing to be a stand-in for Ji’s deceased fiancée just to marry him. Quiet and taciturn, he does nothing but keep his head down and treat Ji well. Ji would believe it if someone said the world would end tomorrow, but he’d never believe Sheng Nuonuo could survive without him.

So the charming, decadent young master of the Ji family in the capital lets his heart run wild. He never takes Sheng Nuonuo seriously, flirting with his young assistant right in front of him and treating him like a servant to order around at will. Behind Sheng Nuonuo’s back, he carries on with his fiancée, who has returned after going missing, yet repeatedly forbids Sheng Nuonuo from seeing other men...

“Let’s get a divorce.”

Sheng Nuonuo never imagined he would be the one to say those words first.

Leaving behind two copies of the divorce papers and a faded, cheap street-stall ring, Sheng Nuonuo walks out of the home he shared with Ji for four years and leaves the man he loved for nine. With his terminally ill body, he disappears without a trace.

Ji Xuyuan scoffs. “At most, Sheng Nuonuo will last two months. He’ll come crawling back on his own!”

Two months later, at a lavish society party, Ji Xuyuan sees Sheng Nuonuo again. His cheeks are rosy, and he nestles obediently and sweetly in someone else’s arms. His carefree smile looks especially scornful.

Ji Xuyuan sees red. He uses every means at his disposal to get rid of the trash coveting Sheng Nuonuo, then takes him back and locks him in a cage to torment him day and night, determined to teach him the price of betraying him...