Stealing My Friend's Wife

Brothers at odds + a brutal rivalry for her affections + a male substitute

Wen Miao was born with poor eyesight, and everything she saw was blurry. She heard that the abbot of Baiyun Temple was skilled at treating eye conditions, so she went to stay at the temple and recuperate.

One day, she got lost by accident and was rescued by a kind man who called himself Yulang.

Yulang was gentle and attentive, keeping her company every day.

Wen Miao never imagined that her savior, Yulang, was actually Shen Yanxue, heir to the Duke’s estate.

He was pure as jade and warm as spring, with the most noble character. He was known for acts of charity, such as providing congee to the poor and treating the sick for free.

Everyone in the capital praised the eldest young master Shen as a man with a heart of gold.

It seemed only natural that such a saintly man would conceal his identity to save a beauty.

Her savior even came to ask for her hand with lavish betrothal gifts. He wasn’t keeping her as a mistress or taking her as a concubine. He was marrying her properly, with eight bearers carrying her sedan chair and a grand procession of gifts stretching ten miles.

A rescue repaid with marriage: it was a romantic tale by anyone’s standards.

What’s more, he treated her so well...

Even after they married, Wen Miao still felt somewhat dazed.

She was only the daughter of a minor seventh-rank official. What had she done to deserve marrying such a nobleman? Surely the heir had only taken a passing fancy to her, and would soon grow bored.

But Shen Yanxue treated her wonderfully. After their wedding, he was so careful with her that he feared she might break if he held her too tightly, or melt if he held her in his mouth.

Everyone in the household said the young lord cherished his wife like the apple of his eye.

Wen Miao herself thought that marrying Shen Yanxue was the greatest blessing of her life.

Until one day, a stranger appeared and claimed he was the real Yulang.

Shen Yanxue, he said, had merely taken advantage of her blindness, cruelly stealing his identity.

Wen Miao was stunned.

A gentle, slow-to-warm rice cake x a sweet on the outside, sinister on the inside x an innocent puppy

Theme: Where there’s a will, there’s a way.