A Lesser Lover

Chu Yan thinks he's a good partner. He bought a house and a car without relying on his parents.

When his husband didn't want to work, he let him stay home and gave him 20,000 yuan in spending money every month.

But none of it meant a thing to his husband, because not long ago, he had cheated on him.

Chu Yan finds out through the partner of the man his husband cheated with.

The man is called Yun Qiyao. He's a novelist and a beautiful shuang'er.

Yun Qiyao suddenly appears in front of him and plays him an utterly obscene recording.

In it, Chu Yan's sweet, considerate husband is fooling around with someone else while complaining about him.

"The first time I met him, he was dressed head to toe in designer clothes, so I thought he was rich. I never expected him to be just some ordinary small-business owner."

"He's so boring. Every day it's work, work, work. He never takes me traveling. He thinks everything I like is childish. He's not even that old, but he acts like a stuffy old man. He's stingy, too. He only gives me 20,000 yuan a month, which isn't even enough for beauty treatments. Choosing a man this awful as my partner makes every day feel like torture."

Looking at Yun Qiyao's tear-streaked face, Chu Yan asks calmly, "Why are you telling me about this? What do you want me to do?"

They're both victims. If Yun Qiyao needs his help, Chu Yan is happy to lend a hand.

But what Yun Qiyao says surprises him. With an air of innocent caprice, he says, "I want you to divorce your husband, then marry me at the registry right away."

Chu Yan: "..."

At first, Chu Yan refuses. Then he discovers that as soon as they divorce, his husband marries his lover.

In a moment of impulse, Chu Yan agrees to marry Yun Qiyao and moves into the same neighborhood as Yun Qiyao's ex-husband.

They strike a deal: in public, they'll pretend to be a loving married couple; in private, they'll keep out of each other's way and live their own lives.

But they never expect that after playing the loving couple so many times, they will gradually become one for real.

Content warnings:

1. Emotionally steady, fatherly, take-charge gong VS willful, domineering, spoiled shou

2. The shou is a shuang'er, a setting similar to a ger, and can bear children.

3. Second-chance marriage, married first and fall in love later

Theme: Don't make life hard for yourself over a scumbag. Please love yourself.