The One I Love Is on the Run [A Substitute Bride's Identity Exposed]

Coming next: Good Boy (Pretending to be a well-behaved puppy didn't work, so I'll be a biting wolf instead). Please add it to your collection!

Blurb: [A marriage alliance between powerful families] [Substitute bride] [Identity revealed] [A wealthy heiress who can't hide her fox tail x a scheming cardiothoracic surgeon who loves catching people by their fox tails]

Lu Ran went from being a poor college student who had just graduated to a stand-in for Gu Feifei, the real heiress of the wealthy Gu family, who had been switched at birth.

To fulfill an arranged marriage made years ago, the Gu family was going to marry her off to Shen Lie, the eldest son of the Shen family.

Before the engagement banquet, the Shen family's eldest young master repeatedly stood her up. On the day of the banquet, Shen Lie simply failed to show up, leaving Lu Ran to handle everything alone.

After the banquet, Lu Ran was full of complaints about this lousy fiance of "Gu Feifei's." Then, by chance, she met a handsome doctor at the hospital who made her heart skip a beat.

That man was more polite than Shen Lie, better-mannered than Shen Lie, and more open-minded than Shen Lie...

In short, he was a thousand times better than that dog of a fiance "Gu Feifei" had never even met. Who wanted to be Mrs. Shen? Let whoever wants the job have it!

On a stormy night, she held up the black Rolls-Royce umbrella the man had given her and ran after him to ask his name.

Raindrops clung to his hair, and his neat, clean white coat was soaked through. He glanced back from beneath the umbrella and calmly gave his name. "Cardiothoracic surgery, Shen Lie."

Then he pushed open the emergency room door and strode away.

Lu Ran was left dumbfounded in the cold, driving rain: ...

Just then, another male doctor came over with an umbrella, waved a hand in front of her, and said with a smile, "Hey, kid. Our Director Shen is handsome, sure, but here's a friendly warning: he's engaged. He's taken, so don't get your hopes up."

Lu Ran's eyes sparkled. "Guess who the one who's got him is?"

*

After Shen Lie returned to the country, an old friend who was abroad asked him to look after his younger sister, Lu Ran.

This Lu Ran had the same figure as his wife, the same voice as his wife, and was allergic to milk just like his wife. She was born on the same day as his wife, and even the face she revealed after taking off her mask looked exactly like his wife's...

Wait a minute?

When Shen Lie realized he'd been played for a fool, he laughed in fury and summoned Lu Ran to his office.

Shen Lie, who had always acted like a proper, polite big brother around the girl, pulled her into his arms and sat her on his lap that day, holding her slender waist so she couldn't get away.

Lu Ran asked timidly, "Brother Shen Lie, what... what do you mean? You can't do this..."

He replied, "Can't do what?"

Lu Ran: "You have a wife!"

Shen Lie: "So what? I can like her and like you too. She's my wife, you're my lover. We each have our place, and everyone can be happy."

Lu Ran: ...

Lu Ran felt like the sky had fallen.

How had she become both the wife and the other woman?

Trembling, Lu Ran clutched the hem of the man's white coat, wanting only to escape. "Let me go. I really do have a manuscript I still need to write..."

The man suddenly removed her mask, smiled faintly, and gently pinched her cheek. "Then tell Brother Shen Lie, what good did you get out of pretending to be the Gu family's heiress? Okay?"

"???" Lu Ran was so startled she nearly fell off his lap.

Just as she tried to get up, the man pulled her back into his arms. His dark eyes turned icy, and his smile vanished in an instant.

Lu Ran's pink lips parted, but before she could speak, his low, deep voice cut her off coldly. "Before you answer, think carefully. Are you going to keep calling me Brother Shen Lie, or are you going to call me husband?"

Shen Lie, who's not so easy to fool x Lu Ran, who's full of holes

Next up: Good Boy

Jiang Yimo's younger brother came to visit after finishing the college entrance exam and brought a friend his own age home that day.

The young man wore a clean, fresh white T-shirt, a black jacket, and black pants. Broad-shouldered, long-legged, tall and straight, he was the model student who had excelled in both conduct and academics before graduating. He was the top student in his year, so accomplished that his teachers ran out of praise, and a popular figure admired by countless girls.

Jiang Yimo's brother slung an arm over his friend's shoulder and grinned. "Sis, you should remember him, right? Xiao Bai, Ji Fubai."

Jiang Yimo: ...

Jiang Yimo guiltily looked away.

Later, while her brother was in the living room and she was cutting fruit in the kitchen, Ji Fubai wandered up behind her with his hands in his pockets. He wrapped an arm around her waist, lowered his head, and rubbed his chin against the hollow of her neck. "Sis, did you sleep well last night?"

*

Jiang Yimo was six years older than Ji Fubai, but he said he didn't mind.

Years ago, she carried him out of the rubble after an earthquake. He was fine, while she was half-dead.

When he fell in love with her, he said, "My life is yours, and so am I."

When he wanted to kiss and hug her, he would put on an adorable puppy face and beg, "Sis, give me a kiss."

When he got jealous, he would grip her waist and pin her against the wall, his tall frame blocking her escape. Looking utterly aggrieved, he'd growl, "Jiang Yimo, I'm mad. Make it up to me."

Jiang Yimo simply couldn't resist him.

*

Later, she left without a word and moved to another city, Xidan.

Six years passed in the blink of an eye. She met Ji Fubai again at an upscale private club by the river in Xidan City.

Jiang Yimo barged into a private room looking for a student.

The room was hazy with smoke. Mahjong tiles clacked behind a screen, the bosses chatted and laughed, and the student was nestled beside one of them.

Jiang Yimo tried to take the student away, but the boss made things difficult. "Looks like you're her classmate? Why don't you stay too? I like sleeping with two at once."

The man seated at the head of the table had been silently drawing and discarding tiles the whole time. But when Jiang Yimo asked, "For old times' sake, could you put in a word with this boss and let me take my student away, Ji Fubai?"

His hand paused.

The boss heard this and immediately pushed the girl away, not daring to wait for the man at the head of the table to say anything before agreeing to give Mr. Bai the favor.

But Ji Fubai slowly stubbed out the cigarette in his hand and smiled mockingly. "Jiang Yimo, I don't remember us ever having any history together."

*

Six years ago, Ji Fubai said, "I'm yours."

Six years later, Ji Fubai said, "Jiang Yimo, you're mine. Try running off with someone else again and see what happens."

[Pretty teacher Jiang Yimo x Ji Fubai, pretending to be a well-behaved puppy]

[Couldn't pull off the good-boy act, so he became a biting wolf instead]

[Older woman-younger man romance, six-year age gap]

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Theme: Lovers end up together