Pearl-Bearing

Because the Shen family had once helped him, Meng Cong was forced to marry Shen Zhuyan when the family fell on hard times.

Shen Zhuyan was now of low status, plain-looking, and uneducated. She was no match for him.

Meng Cong married her only to repay a debt. After the wedding, he ignored her affection and attempts to please him at every turn. He even rarely returned home to avoid her.

Shen Zhuyan gradually saw through his feelings and stopped trying to win him over. She simply fulfilled her duties as mistress of the household and never overstepped again. Only then did Meng Cong begin to relax around her, treating her with mutual respect. As time passed, he even began to think that spending the rest of his life with her might not be so bad.

Until one night at a banquet, after several rounds of drinks, the usually cold and heartless Regent slurred out a few words, asking Meng Cong to take good care of his wife.

Only then did Meng Cong realize that his wife and the Regent had once shared a secret past, and that Shen Zhuyan had fallen for him and married him only because she had mistaken him for someone else.

When he learned the truth, Meng Cong lost control in front of everyone for the first time and spat out a mouthful of blood.

Two years into her marriage, Shen Zhuyan finally learned that she had mistaken someone else for the person who saved her life. The storm had passed, and the old grievances between their families had been settled. She felt that after years of hard work, she owed the Meng family nothing.

After all, two years of trying hadn't sparked any affection between them. Shen Zhuyan decided to divorce Meng Cong, take her money, and leave.

But Meng Cong's younger brother, Meng Zheng, discovered the divorce papers just as she had started writing them.

Her brother-in-law had always been a kind man who kept strictly to propriety, but now, for the first time, he showed another side of himself.

"Sister-in-law, you can divorce my brother, but the Shen and Meng families have a marriage pact. You will always be a Meng wife." Meng Zheng held her hand and wrote out the divorce papers between her and Meng Cong, stroke by stroke.

The force with which he held her, and Meng Zheng's almost deranged expression, were deeply unsettling.

After living under the same roof for two years, she had never realized her brother-in-law loved her so obsessively.

When Meng Cong learned the truth, he hurried home. The scolding words on his lips caught in his throat at the sight before him.

He found his usually well-behaved, sheltered little brother washing Shen Zhuyan's underwear.

Theme: Please yourself and love yourself