[Devoted Family Patriarch ✖ Down-and-Out Heiress]
[Upright Beijing Society ✖ Secret Love Turns Mutual ✖ 1v1]
[Republican Era + Romance
“This is a story set in the Republican era. The tags are wrong, but I can’t change them.”]
She was once a wealthy heiress adored by everyone, but when her family was struck by sudden upheaval, she lost everything. Her parents died, the family business collapsed, and all her former glory vanished. With nowhere else to turn, she was forced to seek refuge with the Fu family, an old friend of her family’s.
Accustomed to never lifting a finger, she tried to adjust to her unfamiliar surroundings, yet always felt like an outsider who didn’t belong. Fu Chengyuan, the Fu family’s cold and inscrutable patriarch, always looked at her with an indescribable heat in his eyes. He pressed her at every turn.
“I’ll pave the way for you. All I want is for you to be my wife, Fu Huaichen’s.”
He had been waiting for years. Ever since he first saw her as a child, she had been branded into his heart.
Now, he wanted not only to give her a home, but also to make her understand that she deserved all the love and devotion in the world.
