[Two formidable leads + marriage first, love later + secret identities + suspense]
Shen Zhiyi had been back with the Shen family for three years. She never received a single word of affection, only a forced substitute marriage.
The fake heiress didn’t want to marry.
So the Shen family pushed Shen Zhiyi into her place.
Her intended groom was Fu Yanci. Rumor said he was disabled, disfigured, and ill-tempered; marrying him meant a lifetime alone.
Shen Zhiyi accepted her fate.
But on their wedding night, she saw Fu Yanci rise from his wheelchair.
The man looked at her. “Scared?”
Shen Zhiyi shot back, “You were faking your disability?”
Fu Yanci replied, “You were standing in for someone else?”
Very well.
Neither of them was innocent.
So they struck a deal.
She would help conceal his secret, and he would tear the mask off the Shen family.
Only Shen Zhiyi never expected that this deal had been a trap from the start.
Fu Yanci had never been looking for a substitute bride.
He was looking for the chip hidden in the back of her neck, where it had been for twenty years.
[Bonus scene]
Later, the Shen family collapsed, the Fu family fell into infighting, and the mysterious number 0918 came to light.
Shen Zhiyi finally learned that she wasn’t the Shen family’s real daughter.
She was a blood descendant lost by the Gu family.
And the man who sat in a wheelchair every day while plotting against her had carved her name into his very bones three years ago, on a rainy night.
“Fu Yanci, what do you really want?”
He stroked the scar on the back of her neck, his gaze unreadable. “I want you. Every part of you, inside and out, belongs to me.”
