[Brooding, obsessive antique art mogul × fiery undercover appraisal beauty]
Substitute romance | Business revenge | Marriage before love | Mildly coercive romance
Ji Yanshu has been married for three years. Apart from her husband's personality being completely different from how it used to be, nothing seemed amiss.
That is, until an accident led her to discover her husband's secret:
This deeply obsessive, gloomy man was not her college sweetheart, Shang Zezhi, but his younger brother, Shang Zejin.
She pressed the barrel of her gun to his heart.
“You used his name to get close to me. What exactly are you after?”
“If I hadn't, I wouldn't even have had the right to approach you…”
Later, she knelt before the Buddha's altar, clutching Shang Zezhi's memorial portrait in utter despair. “I only love your brother! You're not even worthy of being his stand-in!”
“What are you praying to Buddha for?” He sank to his knees between her legs, his voice hoarse with desperation. “The dirtiest place in this world is a Buddhist shrine… Pray to me instead. Let me love you and cherish you. I'll obey you more than any god or Buddha.”
Liars have to swallow a thousand needles.
I'm willing to swallow ten thousand…
I came to you in his name. But I love you with every breath of my life, as Shang Zejin.
Reader advisory: Twin-brother substitute trope, the male lead has no prior sexual experience while the female lead does, the second male lead is her first love, angst-heavy, with most of the heartbreak falling on the male lead.
