My Husband Can't Possibly Be My One True Love

Cui Nianzhi was born into a scholarly family and betrothed to a fine match from a young age.

Her fiancé was the heir to the Prince of Qi, a refined and gentle young man. Once he came of age, he would marry her.

For ten years, they exchanged letters, from childhood scribbles and drawings to heartfelt declarations of longing.

But fate had other plans. The heir died suddenly, and their elders arranged for her to marry his twin younger brother, the newly titled young Prince of Qi.

On their wedding night, Cui Nianzhi trembled all over. The cold blade hidden in her sleeve pressed into her skin, poised to slice her snowy neck.

"Are you so unwilling to marry me?"

The man snatched the dagger from her hand. His gaze was deep, his smile inscrutable as he asked, "How am I inferior to my brother, who died so young?"

Cui Nianzhi wept and shook all over. "No one can compare to him!"

At that, the man's eyes darkened, and for an instant he seemed lost in thought.

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After their wedding, Cui Nianzhi walked on eggshells, exhausted from dealing with her husband's unpredictable moods.

He would stroke her chin with bloodstained fingers and force her to embrace him of her own accord.

When passion overtook him, he would murmur her childhood nickname and make her call him husband.

Looking at that face, identical to the one belonging to the man she loved, Cui Nianzhi would always be overcome by an illusion.

But in the end, he was not the same man.

One day, Cui Nianzhi broke into her husband's secret room and boldly demanded a divorce.

But in that small space, the jade desk was covered with her childhood letters, and the stone walls were hung with portraits of her in every pose.

Cui Nianzhi collapsed to the floor and looked up in terror as her husband approached with a sword in hand.

He wiped the blood from the blade. His eyes were tender as he asked softly:

"My wife, say again that you want a divorce."

The heir, Xie Wan Heng, had been sent to a Taoist temple to cultivate from childhood because his fate was marked by ill fortune.

His lonely, bitter youth had only one light: the letters from a little girl, each one filled with stories of her daily life.

She often asked in her letters, "When will I finally get to see you?"

He would smile as he replied, "When I marry you."

But after a sudden upheaval, he could no longer marry his little girl.

Xie Wan Heng took on his twin younger brother's identity, clawed his way out of hell, and traveled thousands of miles to return and marry her.

From then on, by day he was the ruthless young Prince of Qi; by night, he was the heir who soothed her nightmares.

He thought that if he had to keep lying forever, he would do so until she loved him again.

But later, he learned just how wrong he had been.

Sweet, delicate beauty x scheming prince with a talent for acting

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#ShockedTheManSheDesperatelyTriedToEscapeWasHerFirstLoveWhoDiedYoung

Content warnings

1. One-on-one romance, both leads are each other's first, happy ending.

2. Hidden identities, faux brothers, coercive marriage at first, love after marriage, intense push and pull, later pursuit of his wife, healing.

3. The leads only ever love each other. The heroine has no relationship of any kind with the younger brother, who is dead from the start.

4. The hero takes on his younger brother's identity and successfully marries the heroine for many reasons, revealed in the story.

5. There is also a reason the hero cannot let the heroine learn his true identity, revealed in the story.

First published on 2023.8.22

Theme: Embrace a new beginning