Chen Wanning thought she was the happiest woman in the capital. Her husband was the legitimate son of a marquis, steady and dependable, with impeccable manners. He always spoke gently to her and even let her have her way in bed.
She had thought their peaceful, happy life would go on forever. Then, on the day her father-in-law lay gravely ill, she saw a man at his bedside who looked exactly like her husband.
As it turned out, her husband had an identical twin brother. When their families arranged their engagement, she was supposed to marry the elder twin. But he was free-spirited and undisciplined, hated being constrained by rules, and refused to accept the marriage his family had arranged for him.
So he ran away from the marquis's estate.
With no other choice, his younger brother married Chen Wanning in his place, posing as him.
Now the elder brother had returned. By rights, she was his wife, but he loathed her. He deliberately knocked over the soup she'd made with her own hands, pretended to be a ghost to scare her, and even hid beneath her bed to spy on her intimacy with his younger brother.
He even sent her a letter of repudiation and divorced her.
Unable to bear seeing her suffer such humiliation, the younger brother willingly resigned from his post and left with her to wander the world.
But fate had other plans. The younger brother fell from his horse and lapsed into a coma.
While he was unconscious, she was driven out of the marquis's estate and left homeless.
Chen Wanning took all her savings and bought a house in a remote little town. She thought life would gradually get better.
Three months later, she saw the younger brother standing outside her little house.
He had recovered from his grave illness. When he learned she had been cast out, he had fallen out with his family and come to find her.
They became husband and wife under their true identities. Though their life together was poor, they were happy.
Until...
One day, Chen Wanning saw a face exactly like her husband's. The man said to her,
"A Ning, don't you recognize me? I'm your husband. My brother deceived you."
Chen Wanning turned around in bewilderment. The face that had shared three months of tender affection with her, its features as gentle as jade, suddenly twisted with menace.
"Sweet A Ning, why don't you guess? Am I the elder brother or the younger?"
Cruel, roguish elder brother x meek, dull-witted, honest man x gentle, jade-like younger brother
Theme: Face the future with courage
