Wei Cong, the eldest son of the powerful Wei family, is a notorious rake. All three of his wives died in his bed, and now he has set his sights on Shen Zhiyuan, the eldest daughter of the Shen family.
The Wei family holds immense power, and the Shen family can't afford to offend them. On the night Shen Zhiyuan eloped with her lover, Shen Yaozhi was bound at the wrists and dragged into the ancestral hall. Candlelight distorted her mother's pleading face. "It's only because you look exactly like your sister. If you can just endure it for three or five years..."
Shen Yaozhi had thought Wei Cong would be difficult to deal with. But after entering the Wei household, she learned that the truly terrifying one was its lofty family patriarch.
Wei Yu allowed her to manage the household as the eldest son's wife, yet when no one was around, he gripped her waist and pressed her against the rosewood desk, his fingertips tracing up her calf to the trembling crook of her knee.
"You were this scared, yet you managed to fool my foolish son for three months?"
[Reader's Guide]
1. Male lead has no romantic experience; HE; fictional setting
2. Seventeen-year age gap, an old flame rekindled, mild coercion
3. The heroine's sister, not the heroine, married Wei Cong. The heroine only pretends to be her partway through, and in truth is not married to Wei Cong.
Premise: Keep working hard, and then work even harder
