I Disguised Myself as a Man and Married the Woman Who Hated Me Most

Lu Jinci is Yong'an City's youngest self-made tycoon, ruthless and merciless. No one knows that this formidable figure in the business world is actually a woman. Eight years ago, she disguised herself as a man to keep the family business afloat, pulling the Lu family out of debt and herself out of the mire. She swore she would never kneel to anyone.

Xie Yunqin, eldest daughter of the Xie family and the most beautiful woman in Yong'an City, became a bargaining chip to pay off her father's enormous debts. On the day she married Lu Jinci, she splashed the nuptial wine in her groom's face. “Don't even think about touching me.”

She thought she'd married a cold-blooded merchant. He thought he'd married a woman who hated him. They lived under the same roof, one sleeping in the bedroom, the other in the study. Three years without speaking, three years without intimacy, three years each enduring it alone.

Until she discovered that the “cold-blooded merchant” came to tuck her in at night. Until he realized that every portrait he drew had her face. Until the secret was exposed:

“I'm not a man.”

She waited to be scorned, humiliated, and thrown out.

“I know,” she said. “I knew from the very first day I married you.”

For three years, through more than a thousand nights, she kept his secret and waited for him to speak. He said nothing, and she didn't ask. He retreated, and she waited. She waited for someone who didn't even dare face himself to finally find the courage to do so.

This is a story about pretense and truth. A story about waiting three years to finally hear one honest sentence. Two women: one who lived as a man for eight years, and one who endured as a wife for three. When a home is no home, when love cannot be spoken, when a wall stands between two people, what happens when it's torn down is