After Mistaking Someone for My Husband Who Faked His Death

(The male lead's name has been changed, and some perspectives have been added. The story is largely unchanged.)

Her husband went to the capital to sit the imperial exams. Li Fuxin waited a year, only to receive news of his death from a fellow villager.

"Come on! We're going to the capital to find your father's remains!" She took her little daughter's hand and set off for the capital.

Shengjing was bustling, but they searched everywhere without success. When hunger and cold had them at their wits' end, an opulent carriage passed by. A cold breeze lifted the curtain, revealing half the handsome face of a young lord.

"Lord Wang!" Her supposedly dead husband was actually a noble young master from an eminent family!

There had never been any down-on-his-luck second son of the Wang family. There was only Yan Shouque, the ungrateful wretch!

The scandal grew so big that mother and daughter ended up in the Mei residence.

Li Fuxin took her faithless husband to task every day, but to her surprise, he accepted it all without complaint.

Whether it was her brazen words and actions or her unreasonable tantrums, he went along with everything.

Worn down by Yan Shouque's sincere efforts to repent, Li Fuxin finally softened. She forgave him for abandoning his wife and child and agreed to marry him.

Just then, Yan Shouque's second younger brother returned from his travels to congratulate his brother and sister-in-law on their wedding.

The moment Li Fuxin saw Yan Shouyi, she was completely stunned. The two Yan brothers were twins!

The down-on-his-luck scholar from back then had clearly been Yan Shouyi!

And the man who had let her run wild these past few days and was about to marry her was her elder brother-in-law, Yan Shouque!

Knowing she was completely in the wrong, Li Fuxin grabbed her daughter, packed their things, and fled back to the countryside.

But he pursued her all the way to their little country cottage. Yan Shouque, usually so refined and proper, pounced like a starving beast. "You train someone up, then just toss her aside?"

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Yan Shouque was the eldest grandson of a prince's household, a valiant warrior with a distinguished military record. For the first twenty-some years of his life, he had been prosperous and prominent, living with honor.

But he never expected that looking after his younger brother's savior would end with him in her bed...

And he certainly never expected her to be so ruthless and heartless, breaking off their engagement and abandoning him as soon as his younger brother returned.

A little extra...

Yan Shouyi had once been rescued by a village woman. He spent several months recovering, and she cared for him devotedly, saying she was willing to wait for him to return from the imperial exams before they married.

She was wonderful in every way. But how could a widow with a child possibly be accepted by a marquis's household?

Yan Shouyi gave her a perfunctory promise, had someone send her a sum of money, and never mentioned the matter to anyone again.

He never expected to see the village woman again in his own home.

Mother and daughter had been well cared for, their cheeks rosy and their faces beaming with smiles.

The village woman looked up, puzzled, and called him, "Uncle?"

The Yan family laughed and urged him, "Come and meet your sister-in-law."

He watched as his elder brother stood and took the village woman's hand, his voice tender: "Fuxin."

A sweet, happy ending with both leads pure in body and heart. The male lead gets a wife sent from heaven, and his secret love succeeds. The female lead has an adopted daughter.

Theme: Moving forward together.