Delicate, frail wife * scheming, vicious dog
[Blurb]
After her husband's untimely death, Zhen Baoyi became a widow. Forced to leave Jinling with her newborn child, she headed for an estate in Suzhou to recuperate and observe the widow's code of chastity.
The journey was long. A downpour stranded their carriage in the mountains, and the driver developed wicked designs on her. Just as he was about to assault her, someone suddenly struck him hard, killing him on the spot.
When Zhen Baoyi looked up at the man who had saved her, she was momentarily dazed.
He was handsome as a jade-crowned noble, with an extraordinary bearing. Standing in the rain, his eyes cold, he calmly wiped the blood from his hand and softly called her, "Sister-in-law."
Sister-in-law?
Only then did she learn that the husband she had longed for day and night had a half-brother, and that this brother looked remarkably like him...
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Zhao Yucheng was cold-hearted and powerful, a business magnate known throughout the Jiangnan region. Since his return to Jinling, every turn of events had been under his control, including the fragile woman he had rescued in the mountains.
She was his widowed sister-in-law. To him, she was beautiful, innocent, timid, and easy to bully. He approached her with an ulterior motive, feigning tenderness and luring her with sweet words, until at last he made it into the widow's bed that night.
He thought that if he used a mix of force and persuasion, pulling every trick he knew, she would never be able to leave him. Who could have guessed that the day the truth came to light, she would abandon him with nothing but a short note? Its few words pierced his eyes and scorched his heart.
Only then did Zhao Yucheng understand:
His sister-in-law had been treating him as someone else's substitute all along. The helpless passion she showed every night in bed, the name she murmured in broken whispers, "A Lang," had never been his.
He clenched the note, laughing in furious disbelief, as a thought that seemed to come from nowhere kept roaring in his mind.
So what if she ran away? He could just go get her back.
She thought she could end things with a few words? Dream on. They were meant to be entangled for the rest of their lives!
Theme: Forge a path through the mountains and build a bridge across the waters
