Seven Years as a Stand-In: When Our Contract Expired, I Ran Off with the Baby

Shen Nian'an had been married to Lu Yanzhou, the Lu family’s second young master, under a seven-year contract. In everyone’s eyes, she was a lowly substitute wife. She kept house for him and raised their young daughter, only to be cast aside with the words “The contract is over” when his one true love returned from abroad.

On the day they divorced, Shen Nian'an left with her daughter and an old convenience store, walking away with nothing else. Everyone was waiting to laugh at her.

But no one expected that this woman, mocked as “good for nothing except being Mrs. Lu,” would carve out a place for herself in the workplace through her remarkable psychological insight. She could spot a lie at a glance, dismantle a sales pitch in three sentences, and expose a scam in five minutes.

When she rose through the ranks and flourished, her ex-husband finally realized what he had lost: not a substitute, but someone he could never win back.

And the one true love who had returned from abroad with such careful plans was hiding a secret far more terrifying than anyone could imagine…