The Borrowed-Son Concubine Takes Her Place in the Household

(One-on-one romance) Su Lewei, the only daughter of a wealthy merchant, devoted herself entirely to business and had no interest in romance. To ensure her family line continued, she took Ning Chenzhou, a poor scholar, as her live-in son-in-law.

After they married, affection gradually blossomed between them, and they lived in harmony, yet after three years they still had no child. Pressure to conceive, folk remedies, prayers to the gods, nothing worked. With no options left, Su Lewei heard someone mention “borrowing seed,” and the idea took hold.

Just then, she met Chu Yungui, a poor scholar on his way to the capital to sit the imperial exams. They struck a deal, and afterward they owed each other nothing.

When Chu Yungui passed the exams and earned third place, he returned, hoping to marry Su Lewei.

On one side was her ailing husband, a live-in son-in-law who had shared three years of affection with her but deceived her; on the other was the father of her child, a talented and handsome man with a bright future.

Su Lewei neither divorced her husband nor separated from him.

She simply kept the third-place scholar in a separate household.