Stealing His Affection

[Main story complete | It's actually a sweet little romance]

*After cutting ties with his birth family, the male lead establishes his own household. He and the heroine are not registered in the same household, and they are not related by blood.

1.

Overnight, her father is imprisoned and her mother falls gravely ill. Fu Yinghuan falls from the clouds into the mud, becoming a hot potato no one dares touch.

She has no choice but to beg the person responsible: the man she has always called "Big Brother."

"Please save my mother. If you hate me, I'll die in her place."

Fu Rushang smiles. "But I hate you too. How can one life of yours make up for both of yours?"

"Why don't you have a child for me?"

On their wedding night, Fu Rushang lifts her veil with one hand and says, "Fu Yinghuan, from now on, even if you die, you'll be my ghost."

2.

Fu Rushang has never received even a shred of parental love. His father married his mother under duress, and their marriage was unhappy. His mother eventually fell ill from depression and passed away.

After her death, his father quickly brought the woman he loved into the household. She had been widowed young and had a child with another man, whom she brought along to the Fu family as well.

The little tagalong, however, loves him and follows him around, calling him "Big Brother."

Fu Rushang thinks he ought to hate her, but day by day, he falls deeper.

3.

Everyone thinks Fu Rushang must hate Fu Yinghuan. Even if he married her, they assume it was only to humiliate her.

Then, one day at the polo grounds, someone deliberately insults her. "Lord Fu, look. A pheasant is still a pheasant. She's making herself look so wretched just to get that one piece of jewelry."

Fu Rushang glances at the speaker and says mildly, "Even at her most wretched, she's prettier than you."

The speaker is stunned. Then they see Fu Rushang, who has just been injured, go onto the field himself, win the day's prize, and give it to Fu Yinghuan.

The umbrella no one held over her when she was little is in her hand years later. Smiling, she says, "Rushang, it's raining. Let's go home."

------Upcoming story------

With Jiao Jiao

1.

Chen Yan, a cousin raised in the Marquis of Pingnan's household, has beautiful almond-shaped eyes and peach-pink cheeks, but she's a bit of a simpleton.

Chen Yan is betrothed to the heir of the Marquis of Pingnan, but he dislikes her. He arranges for someone to take her chastity, then uses it as an excuse to break off the engagement and drive her out of the marquis's household.

The day Chen Yan is thrown out, a crowd gathers to watch. The heir points at her and says, "You shameless thing. You got yourself pregnant by another man, and when you give birth to that little bastard..."

Amid the commotion, the Crown Prince's carriage stops in front of the marquis's residence. His presence is imposing as he says, "Did you just call my child a bastard?"

Then Crown Prince Xie Yu turns to A Yan and snaps, "Come here. You've been wronged, and you didn't come to me? Do you think I'm dead?"

Chen Yan pouts and bursts into tears.

Xie Yu stiffens. The usually cold and ruthless Crown Prince personally carries her into his carriage and coaxes her in a meek voice. "Don't cry. Did he bully you? I'll kill him."

Only then does the woman in his arms tug on his collar and say, "You can't just kill people."

2.

The Crown Prince has a strange illness: he dislikes women and never lets them near him. Until one day, someone plays a prank on him and locks him in a room with a woman. After that, his nature changes, and he sees her five days out of every ten.

The Empress is delighted and quickly asks her attendants, only to learn that her son... has been climbing over the wall to visit someone at night.

The Empress is at her wits' end. After asking more questions, she discovers the woman is the fiancée of the Marquis of Pingnan's heir.

Stealing someone else's fiancée... well, it isn't entirely out of the question. The Empress dotes on her son and intends to ask the Emperor for an imperial decree. But before she can do that, her son has already brought the woman home.

He's calling her "sweetheart" and "baby." He's nothing like the way he used to be.

Theme: Sometimes you have to let go of certain things to live a better life.