Stealing His Wife

[A lofty, principled gentleman falls and becomes a dark, obsessive homewrecker]

[Melodramatic plot, with coercive seduction and a battle between male rivals]

That spring, Shen Ci took a concubine at the request of his friend Lu Chengzhou.

The concubine was named Su Yunhuan. She was a daughter of the Su family, and also the woman his friend Lu Chengzhou loved.

The Su family had been implicated in a major case. The men were exiled to the borderlands, while the women were sent to the entertainment bureau.

Lu Chengzhou wanted to save the woman he loved, but his family obstructed him at every turn. All he could do was ask his friend Shen Ci to take Su Yunhuan in as a concubine, rescuing her from the entertainment bureau and sheltering her in the Shen family's inner residence.

Lu Chengzhou entrusted his beloved to Shen Ci because they had been friends for years. He knew Shen Ci was a proper, honorable gentleman who had never shown interest in women.

Lu Chengzhou's plan was to ask Brother Shen to protect Su Yunhuan for the time being, until the Su family was pardoned. After that, he would marry her.

But Lu Chengzhou's plan ran into a small complication from the very beginning.

When Su Yunhuan was sent to the entertainment bureau, she had tried to kill herself by smashing her head against a wall to avoid being violated.

She was rescued and survived, but her memories became confused. She truly believed she was Shen Ci's concubine.

As his concubine, she felt she should serve her husband devotedly. So Su Yunhuan treated her husband Shen Ci with tenderness and care in every way.

But no matter how tenderly she served him, her husband remained distant and never touched her. Feeling deeply wronged, Su Yunhuan couldn't help crying as she asked him why he disliked her.

Shen Ci gazed at Su Yunhuan's tears in silence. He wanted to raise his hand and wipe them away for her, yet instead he quietly clenched his fist tighter.

He had always thought himself indifferent to women, but in truth, he had simply never met someone he liked.

Now he had. She was his concubine in name, but in reality, she was his friend's future wife.

As Shen Ci stood frozen, Su Yunhuan suddenly softened against him, throwing herself into his arms. With tears in her eyes, she looked up and asked, "Husband, are you going to abandon me?"

A scorching sheen of sweat rose on Shen Ci's brow. He felt as if he were sinking into a secluded spring pool, inch by inch, amid intoxicating floral scents, lucid yet despairing.

At last, he slowly laid his hand on the woman's fragrant shoulder and, as if possessed, said, "I'm not abandoning you."

On their wedding night, while the groom, Lu Chengzhou, drank with the guests at the wedding banquet, he had no idea that inside his bridal chamber, his bride was being relentlessly cornered by his friend Shen Ci.

Su Yunhuan had already regained her memories. Unable to bear recalling the past, she tried desperately to retreat, but was still forced down onto the bed. She cried out in panic, "Shen Ci, don't force me!"

The flawless, dignified gentleman in the eyes of the world had long since been driven mad by day after day of torment and restraint. At that moment, it was as if a demon had possessed him.

His eyes bloodshot, he leaned over her. As his shadow completely engulfed Su Yunhuan, every word he gritted out seemed steeped in the metallic sweetness of blood.

"Am I the one forcing you? Or were you the one who tempted me?! Su Yunhuan, it was you... You led me down this path where a husband is no husband, and an adulterer is no adulterer!"

--- Coming Soon: Trapped in a Spring Night ---

After eight years entangled with Pei Zhan, Ye Jin was finally exhausted.

She decided to let go of this relationship. Before leaving for a distant place, she would spend one last night with Pei Zhan, as a farewell to the youth they had shared.

But on that final night, drunk, Ye Jin went into the wrong room and ended up in the bed of Pei Zhan's maternal uncle.

Only when he seemed about to lose Ye Jin did Pei Zhan understand how to cherish her.

Thinking she was leaving for a distant place, he decided to give everything up and go find her. Before setting out, he went to say goodbye to his maternal uncle.

But when he opened the door to his uncle's room, he caught the intoxicating scent of a man and woman who had spent the night together, and saw a young woman in his uncle's bed.

The woman had her face buried against his uncle's shoulder. Pei Zhan couldn't see her face, but her long, soft, black hair seemed strangely familiar.

His uncle, who had always kept his distance from women, had actually spent the night with someone.

Shocked, Pei Zhan couldn't help wanting to see who this woman was. His uncle pulled her closer and snapped at him, "What are you staring at? She's going to be your aunt."

Back when Ye Jin chased after Pei Zhan, remaining devoted no matter how he treated her, Fu Siheng had once sneered and asked if she had any self-respect at all.

But fortunes change. Later, unable to control himself and lost in passion, he was forced to become the other man. No matter what, he had to wedge himself between Ye Jin and Pei Zhan. Ye Jin repeatedly asked him in exasperation, "Fu Siheng, do you have any self-respect at all?!"

[Ten-year age gap between the female and male leads]

[Male lead: Fu Siheng. Second male lead: Pei Zhan]

[The maternal uncle gets the girl, while the nephew's attempt to win her back ends in failure]

Theme: Cherish love and support each other.