After Mistaking a Treacherous Official for My Husband

✨ Sweet | Male lead takes the lead, second male lead suffers a reckoning | One-on-one, both virgins, happy ending

Before Shen Jing left for the capital to sit the imperial examinations, Qiao Zhi hastily married him.

His last letter said that he had passed the highest examination and would soon be appointed to an official post and given a residence. He would come for her before long.

Her eyesight had been getting worse lately. Shen Jing still hadn't come, and afraid she would go completely blind, she decided to seek him out in the capital.

Once there, she clutched a piping-hot bun and asked someone for directions. "Auntie, do you know where Lord Shen's residence is?"

The woman said, "You mean Lord Shen, the high-ranking official?"

Qiao Zhi nodded, chewing her bun as she replied, "Yes, the official. He just passed the highest examination."

The woman thought it over: a high-ranking official, the Shen residence, the top scholar... That could only be Shen Yanshuang, the treacherous minister who held the court in his grasp.

Qiao Zhi found the place the woman had described. She couldn't see clearly. She called him Shen Jing, and he accepted the name. Qiao Zhi felt reassured.

Her husband had grown a little colder, but that was all right. Once they were behind closed doors, their affection as husband and wife would surely warm him up.

*

Shen Yanshuang was at his own gate when someone mistook him for this year's top scholar. He was about to have them thrown out when he heard a woman call him her husband.

Shen Yanshuang sneered. How interesting. Shen Jing, who had married into the prince's household, had a wife.

A weapon delivered right to his door was something to be put to very, very good use.

At first, when Qiao Zhi called him Shen Jing, he answered on the surface and scoffed inwardly.

She sought his closeness; he humored her.

Later, he stopped answering. An inexplicable jealousy flared inside him, filling him with violent irritation.

He could no longer bear that name, or her thinking of him as another man. He wanted Shen Jing to disappear from the world, completely and utterly.

He would make sure the only name in her eyes and heart was his, Shen Yanshuang's.

*

Ever since Qiao Zhi began treatment for her eyes, she noticed that although her husband seemed composed during the day, at night his movements were urgent and restless.

Qiao Zhi thought: Shen Jing loves me so deeply that he worries for me. He's my husband, so of course I should comfort him and ease his distress.

As their passion reached its height, the thin veil covering her eyes slipped off. Her sight, long deprived of light, suddenly cleared.

Dizzy with desire, Qiao Zhi looked at the face of the husband holding her, right in front of her.

Qiao Zhi stared, dazed. "Shen Jing... Why does your face look different?"

The next moment, Qiao Zhi: "!!"

Shen Yanshuang, abruptly interrupted and kicked off the bed: "..."

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