Enough Pretending: Beijing's Zen Master Turns Into a Wife-Doting Maniac

[Married first, in love later + both leads are each other’s only partner + mutual devotion + sweet romance and putting scumbags in their place]

When Qiao Yutang was born, a fortune-teller said she was the bane of the Shen family, destined to bring unrest to their home and ruin their fortunes.

So her biological parents sent her to the countryside as a baby, then turned around and adopted her cousin, Shen Feifei, as their daughter.

When Qiao Yutang went missing at the age of two, the Shen family actually breathed a sigh of relief.

Mu Yanzheng is the head of one of the capital’s most powerful families. He’s fabulously wealthy and so handsome he looks like a god.

But in a year, he plans to renounce the world and become a monk, transforming from the capital’s celebrated Buddhist gentleman into the real deal.

Before then, he needs to get married and have a child.

The unlucky Shen family member who is related by blood and engaged to Mu Yanzheng is none other than Qiao Yutang.

So, hoping to climb into the Mu family’s good graces, the Shens tracked her down twenty years later and brought her back.

“You’d better behave, or I’ll ruin the life of the little sister you grew up with!”

“Marry Mu Yanzheng, give birth to an heir, and support the Shen family business. That’s the only value you have.”

But she had no intention of helping the Shen family, much less becoming a baby-making machine.

Still, she needed to borrow Mu Yanzheng’s power to throw her weight around.

Qiao Yutang clapped her hands. Easy! Make it look like they’d consummated the marriage. (They hadn’t.)

“The fortune-teller said the Shen family would go bankrupt as long as I was around.”

“Right. They went bankrupt.”

“The Mu family’s terrible relatives are dealt with, and my sister, along with the Qiao family’s assets...”

“Recovered.”

A year later, the top trending headline in the capital read: #Former Buddhist Gentleman of the Capital, Now a Wife-Doting Maniac.

Qiao Yutang rubbed her aching waist, tearfully pried the man’s arm off her, and posted a complaint: A man’s mouth is full of lies!

Mu Yanzheng reposted and replied: Yes, my fault. I was one short. I’ll make it up to you tonight.

Netizens: Huh, why has my mind suddenly turned yellow?