Gu Qingyue was ambitious, but unfortunately, he was sickly. Fortunately, fate was kind to him: he transmigrated into a book and got a healthy body. The only catch was that he was a widow.
...His husband wasn't dead yet, but he was a cold-blooded business tycoon with ties to both the underworld and legitimate society, and he was now in a vegetative state.
Gu Qingyue looked at the man's larger-than-average frame and strong chest, licking his lips in regret and envy, like a vengeful ghost who'd found a body to possess.
But never mind. I'll inherit your black empire.
His husband came with two burdens: a rebellious seventeen-year-old younger brother and a six-year-old genius adopted son.
The original owner had been tormented by them while trying to win their favor.
But Gu Qingyue didn't care.
He began spreading rumors everywhere that he and his husband were deeply in love and would stay together until death.
The boss had been gone too long, and the many weirdos under his command finally turned their attention to the supposedly beloved, delicate wife of the tycoon.
Gu Qingyue smiled faintly. You've come to the right person.
From then on, all the burly subordinates of the Shen family finally had someone to rely on. In tears, they helped their graceful, willow-like madam attend all kinds of high-society events.
Gu Qingyue's daily life became:
"Madam! Should we sign this deal? It's only a ten-billion-yuan contract, so it hardly seems worth making you go out. We don't want you to strain yourself and start coughing..."
"Madam! The group has expanded again today! Mr. Wang, Mr. Li, and Mr. Ma insist on dining with you alone and setting off fireworks to celebrate. I think they're up to no good..."
The two burdens he hadn't cared about were acting crazy, too.
"Madam! The second young master has been called to school again. Will you go this time? What? You want to punish him? Should we fetch the whip? The second young master insists!"
"Madam! The little young master is crying for his little papa again! And again! And again!"
The longer Gu Qingyue played the role of madam, the more popular he became. Everyone marveled at how deeply he and the tycoon loved each other, perfectly matched and shining together, and how he'd expanded the tycoon's business empire while his husband was in a vegetative state.
To secure his position as madam, Gu Qingyue accepted all this without a trace of guilt, hyping up his relationship with the tycoon as the most extraordinary love in the world, so moving it could make anyone who shipped them cry.
Until one day, the tycoon was about to wake up. Gu Qingyue paused with his hand rubbing his temples.
That day, he stroked the man's Adam's apple, then sat by his bed all night with a hand around his throat.
You want to be my man.
Aren't you a little too lucky?
The rebellious younger brother and the genius adopted son sat outside the hospital room and exchanged a look.
"Nephew/Uncle, is he really going to wake up?"
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After Shen Qingwei woke up in time, his gaze was deep. Then he closed his eyes: My sickly, beautiful, delicate wife, who can't do anything and doesn't love me, hasn't been stolen away. What a relief.
Shen Qingwei opened his eyes: Wait, my wife is so capable and loves me this much?
Shen Qingwei sat up: Wait, a relief?
*
Gu Qingyue would later say calmly that the two young masters of the Shen family hadn't been born clever. He'd trained them with one strict lash after another. He was like their real older brother and their real father.
However, the facts showed that while he was certainly strict, they might not have seen it that way.
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No one knew that Gu Qingyue was a corporate spy sent by the Gu family.
The Gu family: So that good-for-nothing Gu Qingyue really does have some ability. He actually won over the entire Shen family!
The Gu family: This adopted son, Gu Qingyue, is so madly in love with our young master that he would never disobey our orders. With a single command, he'll stab the Shen family in the back and hand over all their confidential business information!
They tried calling him.
The private number wouldn't connect.
A few days later, the head of the top-tier Shen family, the second young master, a spirited race-car driver, and the prodigiously gifted little young master accompanied Gu Qingyue, who was visibly pregnant, into the State Banquet Hotel.
The Gu family's young master tried to rush in and grab Gu Qingyue, but a group of fierce-looking people knocked him down outside a human wall.
Behind the crowd, the second young master's leather shoe pressed against his shoulder. With one hand in his pocket, he looked down at him with cold contempt.
"Deal with him carefully. What kind of lowlife dares lay a hand on my sister-in-law?"
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