My Moonlight Is Married with a Kid? But I'll Never Be the Other Woman

[First love + mutual pining + angst before sweetness / pretend family of three]

- “Cool-faced, softhearted orthopedic surgeon × unexpectedly nurturing finance executive”

At sixteen, Bai Zhiyan secretly fell for a boy who shone like the sun.

At eighteen, she finally worked up the courage to confess. But he left with another girl.

At twenty-five, they meet again at a class reunion. The boy she once knew is now a rising star in finance, impeccably dressed in a suit and holding an adorable child. The wedding ring on his ring finger catches her eye.

He’s married. He even has a child. (Or so it seems.)

She does her best to keep her distance, but he keeps finding ways to get close.

He pressures her, tempts her, pretends to be sick, acts cute, and tests her increasingly shaky self-control.

“That’s enough! No matter how much I love someone, I will never be the other woman!”

Then the medical records she’s kept safe are accidentally opened, revealing a yellowed love letter and an old photo of the boy...

Xu Chen panics. “Bai Zhiyan! I’m not married! I borrowed the kid, and the ring is just a keepsake! I was an idiot! I used this to fend off admirers, and ended up keeping you away!”

His eyes bloodshot, his voice hoarse, he says, “I like you. I have since high school. Seeing you again didn’t make me fall for you. It made me realize that in all these eight years... I’ve never gotten over you.”

[Bonus scene]

“I’m sorry...” Xu Chen leans over, resting his head on her shoulder like a big dog hoping to be petted. “Don’t be mad, okay?”

Bai Zhiyan pushes his head away. “That won’t work on me!”

She absolutely cannot encourage the bad habit of getting out of trouble just by acting cute!

“If apologies worked, what would we need the police for?”

Xu Chen isn’t put off by her rejection. He sweeps her into his arms with a long reach