Newlywed Trouble: Mr. Fu Crosses the Line

At her lowest point, Ruan Xi once begged Fu Sinian in desperation. He pinned her against the wall and sneered, “Ruan Xi, other than clinging to men, what can you do?” She turned and walked away, never looking back. Later, at her wedding, Fu Sinian crashed the ceremony himself. Because the groom was his father, Fu Yu'an, a seemingly respectable man at the pinnacle of the business world. Red-eyed, he cornered her in the lounge, each word dripping with anguish. “So this is the new branch you’ve latched onto? Ruan Xi, you disgust me.” Fu Yu'an simply drew his new wife behind him, composed and gentle, yet leaving no room for argument. “Sinian, call her Mother.” Everyone thought Ruan Xi’s marriage to Fu Yu'an was the ultimate proof of her greed and vanity. Fu Sinian, too, thought he hated this scheming woman with all his heart. That is, until he accidentally opened his father’s safe. Hidden in its deepest recesses was not a property agreement, but an old, yellowed photograph. The girl in the picture wore a radiant smile, and looked remarkably like Ruan Xi. In that instant, his whole world turned upside down. Only then did he understand: what he was fighting for was not his pride, but a person. He didn’t hate her for climbing to a higher branch. He hated that the branch had never been his. I pushed her onto the altar with my own hands, only to realize she was the one and only faith of my life.