[The second male lead takes the lead + eight-year age gap + long-planned pursuit. The heroine stays clearheaded and never looks back. The hero initially doesn't know their marriage certificate is fake, and willingly lets himself fall.]
The day Ji Yunchu learned her marriage certificate was fake, she got drunk and slept with her ex's uncle, Shen Zhou.
Wrapped in a blanket, she begged him, "Uncle Shen, you won't tell my husband about this, will you?"
The man said nothing.
She took it as a yes.
But later...
When the man pulled her into his arms in the study, her ex was standing in the corridor just outside the door.
At Grandma Shen's birthday banquet, the old lady asked her ex when he would give her a great-grandchild.
Meanwhile, the man kept her in a private room on the second floor and threatened, "You can call her. I'll go downstairs right now and tell her you're pregnant. Just not with her great-grandchild, but with her own grandson."
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Ji Yunchu had known since childhood that Shen Zhou hated the Shen family, and that included her, since she was always hanging around their home.
She thought everything the man did was simply to get revenge on the Shen family.
Until she learned that the powerful man had spent two days and a night in the snow to persuade a retired doctor to treat his mother.
Until, just before she gave birth, she saw the man, who didn't believe in gods or Buddhas, make his way up the mountain on his knees, praying to Guanyin to keep her safe in childbirth.
It turned out he had planned it all long ago.
Even if she did not love him, he wanted her to live a safe and happy life.
