A Substitute Bride to a Tycoon, But I Got the Wrong Bed

Luo Qiao suffers from intermittent blindness and is the illegitimate son the Luo family is most desperate to keep hidden.

When his family suddenly went bankrupt, Luo Qiao was forced to marry Duan Yichen, the third son of the Duan family of Hong Kong, in place of his older brother.

Everyone knows that the Duan family's second son, Duan Huaiyun, is a ruthless businessman who dominates the business world.

The third son, Duan Yichen, on the other hand, is a playboy who cares only for chasing women, a coldhearted wastrel.

Luo Qiao married Duan Yichen in a state of anxious apprehension.

But on their wedding night, his husband treated him with the utmost tenderness, cleaned him up afterward, and soothed him to sleep. Apart from never speaking to him, he was nothing like the debauched playboy of the rumors.

Though Luo Qiao could not see, his fingertips managed to feel a scar on the man's collarbone as they lay together.

The man above him paused, then kissed his fingertips. "Baby, once your eyes are healed, don't mistake me for someone else."

But all that tenderness was nothing more than a passing cloud.

Before Luo Qiao could regain his sight, he received divorce papers. The reason: his husband had found someone new.

Luo Qiao could only laugh at the absurdity of it all. His heart turned to ash, and he left the country.

*

Over the next two years, Luo Qiao had his eyes treated abroad and became a painter with a modest international reputation.

After returning home, he received an invitation to a banquet hosted by the Duan family of Hong Kong.

At the party, Luo Qiao saw his husband's face for the first time.

Duan Yichen had an arm around his older brother Luo Yu's waist. The two were so intimate they seemed inseparable.

Luo Yu approached him with a glass of red wine, looking down at him with contempt. "Well, if it isn't my blind little brother, who's always so good at seducing people."

A new love or an old one, Luo Qiao wanted no part of it.

But the other man pretended to slip, spilling an entire glass of red wine on his shoes.

Everyone present burst into laughter.

Luo Qiao endured it in silence and was about to bend down to wipe his shoes when a handsome man in an expensive suit, cool and distinguished, blocked his hand.

"You used to know how to cry out when it hurt. Now you can endure it?"

Luo Qiao froze, but recognized the voice.

The legendary business tycoon of Hong Kong, the eldest son of the Duan family, his second uncle:

Duan Huaiyun.

Before Luo Qiao could recover, the man crouched down and carefully wiped the wine from his shoes with an expensive silk cloth.

Everyone was stunned.

The legendary business magnate of Hong Kong had actually crouched down at a party to wipe the shoes of a hidden illegitimate son.

Who would believe it if they heard this?

Luo Qiao couldn't believe it himself. He called out, "Second Uncle," and reached out to stop him.

But the man looked up and undid the button at his collar.

Luo Qiao clearly saw the scar on Duan Huaiyun's collarbone.

He froze in place.

Duan Huaiyun gave a low laugh.

"Didn't I tell you not to mistake me for someone else?"

*

Duan Huaiyun can make the business world rise and fall with a flick of his hand. Countless people want to use their way into his bed to climb to the top.

But Duan Huaiyun is naturally aloof and keeps himself chaste. He has never fallen for anyone.

Until that day, when he was drunk and entered a room to find a pale young man with gauze curtains wrapped around his eyes.

The young man's skin was as white as jade, and his features were delicate and beautiful, but he was far too pale and fragile. Like a glass ornament, he would shatter at the slightest touch.

Duan Huaiyun froze, then heard the young man softly ask, "Are you Third Brother Duan?"

He did not answer.

He chose to let him believe it.

Everyone says Duan Huaiyun is cool and self-possessed, like a Buddhist monk free of worldly desires.

But they don't know this:

That monk stepped down from his pedestal and willingly fell into depravity.

Without the slightest hesitation, he walked into that forbidden abyss.

P.S.

1. A blind, frail, beautiful painter × an aloof, distinguished, desireless Buddha-like man from Hong Kong's elite circle.

2. They have an 11-year age gap. The top is 30, and the bottom is 19.

3. Older man/younger man, featuring a wonderful guiding lover.

Theme: Always believe in each other