I Thought You Were My Benefactor, but You're Treating Me Like Your Wife?

The first in the Shen Family’s Male Spouse series

“Are you Lu Zhen?”

“Yes, sir.”

“I’m Shen Lin’an. Come with me. I’ll take care of you from now on.”

An ancestral jade pendant, split in two and seemingly mismatched, secretly holds feelings its owners never put into words.

If their descendants are unwilling, the pendant is simply a token of friendship.

If they are willing, the darkened jade returns to its original appearance, becoming a token of marriage between their families.

Lu Zhen was born in a poor, remote mountain village. He never thought of himself as a poor little thing, though that was exactly how the villagers saw him.

After all, his mother died when he was one, and his father ran off when he was two, leaving him to depend on his grandparents.

When he was five, his father finally came back, bringing along a stepmother who despised him.

Claiming the family was struggling, his stepmother never gave him enough to eat and made him work himself to the bone.

Little Lu Zhen did his best to survive, but fate still dealt him a cruel hand. An accident sent him tumbling off a cliff and left him with a bad leg.

With the help of the villagers and his teacher, Lu Zhen escaped death and refused to give up on himself.

He studied hard, hoping to find a way out of the mountains.

In the summer of his nineteenth year, Lu Zhen received a precious university admission letter.

But tuition was an insurmountable obstacle for him.

Then Shen Lin’an appeared like a benefactor from the heavens, telling him their families had been close for generations and that he had a duty to help.

He took Lu Zhen out of the mountain village and gave him a life of wealthier comforts than he had ever dreamed possible.

Grateful to Shen Lin’an, Lu Zhen saw him as his benefactor and silently vowed to repay him one day.

Lu Zhen had no idea that Shen Lin’an, who had fallen for him at first sight, was raising him as his wife.

Whether Lu Zhen wanted it or not.

My wife is destined to be mine.