[Ultimate Stand-In | Genius Twins | The Ex Chases His Wife to the Crematorium | Movie Emperor Kneels | A Lifetime of Redemption]
“Her? She’s nothing but a stand-in.”
Backstage at the awards ceremony, Shen Niannian heard Lu Yan say those words to the woman he still loved.
Three years of tenderness had been nothing more than a one-woman show she had put on for herself.
She smiled and disappeared, taking with her the secret of the twins she had never had a chance to tell him about.
Three years later, she returned under the name Shen Nian, making a triumphant comeback as an acclaimed producer.
On the red carpet, Ji Huaihan, an internationally acclaimed movie emperor, was her new co-star.
Lu Yan shoved through the crowd, eyes bloodshot. “Niannian, where have you been all these years?!”
She pulled her hand away with cool detachment and a perfect smile. “Mr. Lu, do we know each other?”
Trembling, he took the paternity test results. He learned how she had struggled alone to take their children to the hospital in the middle of the night,
and saw that in the delivery room, another man had signed the words “Save the mother” on her behalf.
On a stormy night, he knelt without getting up. “How can I ever make up for those three years?”
She lowered her eyes, her gaze as calm as ever, without a tear in sight.
Only when a cold blade came for their two children
did he act without thinking, using his body to become their final shield.
Blood stained his shirt, and at last, it stained her frozen gaze red.
Beneath the surgical lights, barely breathing, he struggled to smile at the children.
“Don’t be scared… This time, Daddy… protected you…”
Shen Nian clutched his cold hand. For the first time, she heard the sound of her defenses breaking.
It turned out the crematorium of regret burned away arrogance and betrayal.
And after rising again, bathed in blood, he spent the rest of his life learning to love and protect her.
Ahhhhhhh