I was born into the Chen family of Jiangning, a family of cloth merchants. With no brothers or sisters, I was raised by my parents as a boy from a young age so our vast family business would never fall into someone else's hands.
As time passed, I truly came to think of myself as a man.
Xu Maolin and I grew up together. Unlike me, with my reeking love of money, he came from a family of refined scholars. Even his fiancée was a dignified, well-read young lady of great renown in Jiangnan: Shi Tian.
I saw Shi Tian when I was twelve. She was so beautiful, with skin like snow, a slender figure, and eyes like the moon in the night sky. Every gesture of hers was as graceful as falling petals dancing in the snow. After that fleeting glimpse, I could never forget her.
Xu Maolin went to the capital to take the imperial examinations and did not return for three years. Rumor had it that he had died at the hands of bandits on Mount Xiaocang.
Shi Tian asked to enter her husband's family and remain chaste, living just on the other side of a wall from me.
A wall!
To me, that was the best news imaginable...
She had changed a little. She looked more haggard, so thin she was barely recognizable. I heard her mother-in-law loved imposing rules. How could I let her live in such misery? I had to take Xu Maolin's place and take good care of her!
Every day, I would climb over the wall and lavish her with attention.
Gradually, I realized she was falling for me.
I spent a third of my family's fortune, and at last I married her.
But on our wedding night, the beautiful face beneath the veil just wouldn't quite line up with the Shi Tian in my memories...
My Shi Tian... How had she turned into a man?
[Obsessive, lovestruck, spoiled rich girl x delicate, beautiful, seductive man]
Reading tips:
1. This story has a messy sexual orientation. The couple get together because of a misunderstanding, and fall in love after marriage.
2. The male lead is the second-born son of the female second lead's concubine mother, and takes her place in the marriage.
3. The main story is told in third person.
Blurb written on January 17, 2026.
Theme: None.
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