“Be my mistress. Come whenever I call.”
Jiang Qingli spent three years as Xu Tingshen’s stand-in, only to be discarded like trash on the day his first love announced she was pregnant.
A single “I don’t know her” crushed every last bit of her devotion.
Then a helicopter descended, and the Gu family, the richest family in the country, reclaimed the daughter who had been missing for twenty years.
Her seven older brothers doted on her, and the medical community erupted in applause for her.
At a banquet, Xu Tingshen watched her shine and his eyes reddened. “Come back. I’ll marry you.”
Jiang Qingli smiled faintly. “Mr. Xu, the Gu family’s son-in-law hopefuls are lined up all the way to Paris. Who do you think you are?”
Later, he knelt in the pouring rain and begged her to come back. But she was smiling sweetly on the arm of a distinguished man. “Let me introduce you to my new husband.”