It was the seventh year after my father, a senior military officer, recognized me as his child when I finally learned the truth: the fake son had claimed my admission notice and gone to university. When my parents found out, they cut ties with him and had his student registration invalidated. My fiancee, Xu Qian, filed an application to transfer back to the capital overnight so she could marry me. My father said he had done everything he could to secure me a place as a visiting student, to make up for my disappointment. They told me to focus on my studies, changed my name to Lu Ran, and encouraged me to embrace my new life. Later, they told me that the fake son, Lu Yu, had lost everything and killed himself in the countryside. I believed them.
It wasn't until the ninth year of my marriage that I saw Lu Yu, the man who was supposed to have killed himself. He had the air of a highly educated intellectual as he gave Xu Qian a passionate kiss.
"Thank goodness you and Mom and Dad kept Lu Ran under control back then, forged my household registration, and even changed her name."
"Now I'm an academician at the Academy of Sciences. Someone with only a high school education can't successfully report me."
"You've worked hard all these years."
Xu Qian looked at Lu Yu with a tenderness I'd never seen before. "Seeing you achieve your dream makes all my efforts worthwhile."
So the marriage that had moved me was nothing but a lie told for someone else's sake.
And my own parents had deceived me for over a decade to secure Lu Yu's future.
If that's what you want, then I'll give you what you want.
