[Whirlwind marriage + marriage first, love later + substitute bride + winning back his wife + face-slapping + both leads are each other’s only ones, 1v1]
On an otherwise completely ordinary day, Xia Qingyu was suddenly forced by her stepmother to take her sister’s place as a bride and look after her wealthy husband.
The first time she met Ye Xiuchen, he was aloof and dignified, standing outside the marriage registry with an aura that warned everyone to keep their distance. The two of them went through the motions like robots and quickly got their marriage certificate.
On their first day living together, the tyrant laid down the rules.
Ye Xiuchen delivered a string of cold household rules without changing expression: “Be home by nine. Act like Mrs. Ye before Zihan wakes up. Don’t go anywhere you shouldn’t, and don’t do anything out of line. I don’t want to waste time doing damage control…”
Xia Qingyu nearly ground her back teeth to dust, but managed to stay calm. “All right.”
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Xia Qingyu had planned to do her best to carry out her stepmother’s orders, live in harmony with Ye Xiuchen without interfering in each other’s lives, and leave with her dignity intact.
But love is hardly something you can control. Both of them were sure they wouldn’t fall for each other, yet the sweet life they built together made them both let their guard down, and they found themselves falling for each other without realizing it…
Being swept up in it was so addictive that Xia Qingyu gradually forgot why she had come to the Ye family in the first place.
Then Xia Zihan appeared and brought her crashing back to reality.
With the original wife back, it was time for the substitute to step aside. Only then did Xia Qingyu realize she had long since fallen for this relationship that had never been proper or legitimate. But could she and Ye Xiuchen really have a future…
