Cool, Abstinent Minister x Alluring, Flirtatious Widow
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Fuyu had been a widow for three years, and she was only twenty. With her breathtaking beauty and the substantial inheritance left by a wealthy merchant from Yanzhou, she could easily find a suitable family to marry into as its principal wife.
But Fuyu was devoted to her late husband. She would rather remain mistress of her own household than remarry with her inheritance in tow.
If her late husband's maternal uncle hadn't coveted her fortune, she would never have considered remarrying.
One day, on her way to a temple, Fuyu lifted the carriage curtain and saw a young gentleman ride past. His bearing was noble, and in the backlight, his profile bore a slight resemblance to her late husband's. Her heart was thrown into disarray.
That face was so much like the husband who could not spend the rest of his life with her, and the young man was breathtakingly handsome... She knew who she wanted to marry.
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Mo Jinglan was born into a powerful aristocratic family. Well-read and brilliantly gifted, he was the dream man that countless young ladies in Shengjing lined up to marry.
In his mind, as head of the family, he would marry a legitimate daughter from a family of equal standing. Even if he were to take a concubine, he would never marry a merchant's widow.
Mo Jinglan thought he wasn't particularly taken with her. Later, he found himself loving her eagerness and passion beneath the bed curtains, her gentle efforts to please him, and the way her eyes and heart held only him.
But she had once been a merchant's wife, vulgar to the core, and had married someone for a mere ten thousand taels. He thought he would never spare her another glance. Yet when she came to him in tears, saying her inheritance had been stolen and she had nowhere to go, he found he could not let her go.
He had thought nothing could be worse than that, until he saw an old painting and found a face three parts like his own: Shen Jie, her late husband.
How dare she treat him as a replacement...
[Reading Guide]
1. Both leads are inexperienced; a powerful man bows to love; melodrama
2. One-sided feelings in the early stages, mutual devotion later
Theme: Everyone is one of a kind
