[Republican-era nostalgia + husband returns from the dead + marriage before love + identity mystery + shipping industry intrigue + two strong-willed leads + one-on-one romance + happy ending]
Three years after her husband disappeared at sea, Meng Tingyue finally decides to marry again.
She married into the Pei family at nineteen and was widowed at twenty.
Everyone thought the young woman wouldn't last long, but three years passed without her husband's body ever being found. Instead, the Pei family's young widow, once pitied by everyone, gradually made her way into the chamber of commerce and became known throughout Shanghai as “Boss Meng.”
Now that the past is behind her, it's time to move on.
The night before her engagement, however, a shipment goes missing from Meng's wharf.
Meng Tingyue rushes there through the rain and sees a man in a dim warehouse who should have been dead for three years.
The same face. The same voice.
But he looks at her with polite distance.
“Miss Meng, have we met?”
Meng Tingyue stares at him for three seconds, then slaps him across the face.
Shen Yuchuan, newly arrived from Nanyang, is mysterious and dangerous, and looks exactly like her late husband.
He knows the Pei family's ships and the Meng family's wharf. He even knows old habits only Pei Yanchen should know.
But no matter how much Meng Tingyue investigates, he gives her the same answer:
“Miss Meng, you've mistaken me for someone else.”
At first, she doesn't believe him. Later, she begins to hope he really isn't Pei Yanchen.
Until one night, she unbuttons Shen Yuchuan's bloodstained shirt herself and sees the old wound beneath his ribs, the one she'd dressed for seven days.
At last, Meng Tingyue understands:
She hasn't fallen in love with a second man.
She's simply fallen in love with the same scoundrel all over again.
But this time
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