The Honest Wife Coveted by a Hypocrite

Stealing someone’s partner | Taking what you want by fair means or foul | Love after marriage

A timid, awkward, honest wife vs. a proper, calculating hypocrite

Lu Yan had been raised in the countryside since she was little. She was timid and inarticulate, but she had a fiancé from an illustrious family, a courteous and gentle man. The only problem was that he was in love with someone else and showed her no affection.

Lu Yan had given him eight years of her youth, thinking that if she just endured, she could keep going.

Then her fiancé brought home an old friend he had known for years. The man was the heir to the Duke of Dingguo, noble and strikingly handsome, and famous for being a gentleman. Whenever he saw her, he would politely and distantly call her "Sister-in-law."

Lu Yan was worlds apart from him. Whenever they met, she would blush and lower her head, restraining herself and observing propriety, afraid to overstep.

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Xie Tingyun often visited his friend’s home on official business, and every time he went, he ran into his friend’s fiancée.

She was a simple, honest woman. Though she occasionally made mistakes or did something foolish, her heart and mind were devoted to her sweetheart. He, too, benefited from his friend’s good fortune and was occasionally shown a little of his sister-in-law’s warmth and kindness.

As they spent day after day together, Xie Tingyun knew she loved his friend and was only kind to him in passing. Still, he couldn’t control his heart and gradually fell into a tenderness and affection that weren’t meant for him.

Later, his sister-in-law was drugged and stumbled into his arms, her cheeks flushed. Mistaking him for his friend, she clung to him. He knew he shouldn’t, but somehow he didn’t push her away...

Later still, his friend found her dull and boringly proper, and abandoned her on their wedding day.

Lu Yan became a discarded wife. Her adoptive parents pressured her to kill herself, and in despair she waded into the river to die.

Xie Tingyun galloped over and swept her into his arms. The sister-in-law who had always kept her distance from him now sobbed uncontrollably in his embrace.

Xie Tingyun bent down and kissed away her tears. "Don’t cry. If he won’t marry you, I will."

His friend had found her boring. But the last time Lu Yan had been in his arms, her body had flushed pink as she held him, her eyes misty with tears. She had clearly seemed to enjoy herself...

#A story about a scheming, calculating man coveting his friend’s wife and taking what he wants by fair means or foul

Note: The male lead is sexually and emotionally devoted, and this has a happy ending.

Theme: Sincerity is the ultimate weapon.