[Substitute + angsty romance + groveling for forgiveness + heroine never forgives]
To repay a debt of gratitude, I agreed to marry Cheng Xing, the playboy son of Uncle Cheng, who had helped and encouraged me at the orphanage as I worked toward my doctorate. Uncle Cheng was now suffering from cancer.
To my surprise, Cheng Xing changed his ways the moment he met me, promising at his father’s bedside to protect me for the rest of my life.
I thought I’d found happiness at last,
until one day,
while I was on duty at the hospital, I met a strange female patient.
She asked me all sorts of odd questions,
and I thought she was just a bitter wife whose husband didn’t care about her.
She kept pestering me until I added her on WeChat. In her Moments, I saw her wearing the family heirloom that should have been mine. Meanwhile, after having mine appraised, I discovered it had been replaced with a fake. That was when I realized my lover had always treated me as her substitute…