The Stand-In's Fake Innocence

My next novels will be A Little Extra Love After Marriage and His Love Burns Like Fire. Please add them to your reading list!

Shen Yao saved Lu Xiao when he was down on his luck, and afterward, Lu Xiao became devoted to her.

Someone in the know revealed that Lu Xiao caught Shen Yao's eye because he resembled the childhood sweetheart she'd once had a crush on. He was just a substitute, and given how quickly Shen Yao changed boyfriends, she'd soon find someone new and dump Lu Xiao.

Over three years, Lu Xiao went from an unknown to a rising star. Shen Yao was his only benefactor, but no longer his only pillar of support. Little by little, he slipped out of her control.

After Lu Xiao's background was revealed, Shen Yao avoided him whenever she could. After all, their former relationship was the most shameful stain on his life.

Lu Xiao had become someone she couldn't afford to provoke.

Coming home late at night, she saw a man lying on the bed and coldly told him to leave.

"Leave the key and get out of here."

Lu Xiao groaned a couple of times, then went limp and unresponsive. She tried to pull him off the bed, but when she touched his arm, she noticed something was wrong. She felt his forehead and frowned.

"Are you sick?"

The man slowly opened his eyes and looked at her, dazed, helpless, and pitiful.

"Yaoyao, I feel awful. Am I about to die?"

Shen Yao fell silent for a moment, remembering how he'd stocked a medicine box with all kinds of common medications at home ever since he'd learned she often had stomachaches.

Seeing how pale he was, Shen Yao sighed. "I remember you keep lots of medicine at home. Where did you put the medicine box?"

He'd always been the one trying to make this little home of theirs work.

Gorgeous female CEO x substitute puppy-like man

Older woman-younger man romance, five-year age gap. If that bothers you, proceed with caution.

The blurb for the new novel A Little Extra Love After Marriage:

After the Jiang family goes bankrupt, Jiang Man, who'd been adored by everyone since birth, falls from the clouds. Then her childhood sweetheart and fiance cheats on her, leaving the once unattainable beauty in the humiliating position of being ripe for the picking.

Surrounded by a pack of wolves, she turns and throws herself into the arms of rising tycoon Qi Lie.

The bankrupt heiress makes a dazzling transformation into Mrs. Qi. She abandons her gentle ways and becomes bold and ruthless, making those who once coveted her tremble in fear.

Rumor has it that Mr. Qi has been bewitched by his beautiful wife and become a doting husband. His vast fortune will soon be squandered by her.

Late at night, lying face to face, the couple have a heart-to-heart.

Mrs. Qi asks, "Mr. Qi, I hear you're blinded by my beauty and I've almost blown through our entire fortune?"

Mr. Qi asks in return, "If I really lost everything one day, would you stay with me and help me rise again?"

She answers without a moment's thought. "No."

In the darkness, the man is so exasperated by her heartlessness that he laughs. He pulls her closer and sighs helplessly.

"Sigh. I guess I'll have to work even harder to make sure my wife never leaves me."

Jiang Man nestles into his warm embrace, smiling without a word and offering no explanation.

With her by his side, he will never have nothing.

Theme: Yearn for a beautiful life and believe in love.