“Want to marry me? Go ask my older brother. If he agrees, I'll marry you.”
At Second Young Master Lu's words, Wen Jingying really does show up covered in mud and water, kneeling at Lu Yanzhi's feet.
The cigarette between the man's fingers glows and dims as he coolly sizes up his future sister-in-law, whose every move is full of holes. “Miss Wen, I can practically see the beads of your abacus flying at my face.”
She raises her disheveled yet stunning face. “If I waited like a normal person, you wouldn't make a move.”
Lu Yanzhi takes on this troublesome burden.
He teaches her not to reply to messages, to leave her fiancé hanging, and how to make a man give in.
But as he teaches her, he ends up being the first to give in.
Later, she flings the divorce papers at him in public.
The whole city says the Wen family's girl is a real schemer, using the younger brother as a stepping-stone to climb into the older brother's bed.
Lu Yanzhi kneels in the ancestral hall and takes three strokes of the cane. “I was the one who fell for her first. I was the one who stole her away.”
But the woman he protected behind his back leaves him only a loan note, a kiss, and a one-way ticket.
Six months later, they meet again, and there's a young man by her side calling her
