Bone-Deep Heartbreak: The CEO's Substitute for His Dead Wife

Xia Wanxing loved Shen Zhiyan for ten years. It began with a handkerchief she offered him on a rainy night when they were young, and from then on she became a light he could never hide from his life. But an accident turned her into a stand-in for his late wife, Su Manqing. He made her wear white dresses and grow her hair long, forcing her to imitate his dead wife's words and actions. Yet after she donated part of her liver to save him, he believed Su Manqing's lies and sent her to prison with his own hands.

During her three years behind bars, her dreams of becoming a designer were crushed, and she lost the child she had yet to give birth to. The only thing that kept her going was the denim jacket he occasionally sent her. She thought that if she could just make it through her sentence, he might come back to her. But on the day she was released, she saw him proposing on a giant screen in the city center to Su Manqing, who had supposedly come back from the dead. The jacket she had treasured was tossed into the mud by Su Manqing and trampled underfoot.

As the truth behind Su Manqing's fake death and impersonation slowly came to light, Xia Wanxing finally learned that she was not only a substitute, but also the “Big Sister Star” he had searched for over many years. But fate gave her no chance to explain. During a kidnapping orchestrated by Su Manqing, Xia Wanxing took a fatal bullet meant for Shen Zhiyan to protect him. Her bloodstained pregnancy test and their childhood photo lay scattered on the ground. In her final glance at him, all that remained in her eyes was endless weariness.

Only when Shen Zhiyan held her cold body did he collapse beneath the avalanche of truth. He had destroyed the only person who loved him, and the deep devotion he believed in had all been a lie. For the rest of his life, he wore the bloodstained denim jacket and kept watch over a room full of old belongings. He spent his days at her grave, repaying a love that had come ten years too late with an eternal act of repentance. But this time, his star would never come back.