If you can look even a little like him, you should consider yourself lucky.
Meng Ying had always put profit above everything else.
After her first love’s family was ruined, she went to great lengths to find three substitutes for him.
The first looked like him, but had none of his soul. Meng Ying kept him for half a year before growing bored of him, and she could barely remember his name.
The second was alike in both appearance and spirit, and was also a friend of her first love. But he was too old and too possessive, so after picking him apart over every little thing, Meng Ying dumped him.
Then came the third. Born into a distinguished family, cool and refined, and a master at getting things done. Though he looked only thirty percent like her first love, Meng Ying thought he was enough to soothe her longing.
She pursued him, seduced him, and married him. Even knowing he was a substitute for her first love, he had no choice but to marry her. When the truth came to light, she smiled up at him. “It’s an honor to be his substitute. You have no right to criticize a woman lovesick with longing!”
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She was probably the only person who could use her husband as a substitute and still feel entirely justified. Her husband was probably the only person who knew he was a substitute and still put up with her.
But even feelings stored up for too long eventually reach a breaking point.
On a foggy mountain road in San Francisco, he learned that she had once been willing to give up her identity, status, and everything she owned to elope with her first love. His voice was cold as ice. “Meng Ying, your so-called ambition and love of profit are just ways to keep your substitutes in line. When it comes to the man you love, you can throw away all your principles, can’t you?”
His dark eyes fixed on her. “Meng Ying, tell me you love me. Tell me you can’t live without me. Tell me you have to have me.”
Meng Ying said nothing.
Later, he came to take her home, and she asked why he was willing to make up.
Under the clear moonlight, the man leaned against the car door. His features were refined, and he gave a weary, helpless smile. “Because I love you. I can’t live without you. I have to have you.”
The words of love she couldn’t bring herself to say, he said for her, every one of them.
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Later, Meng Ying fought her way through every obstacle and finally became the youngest chairman in the group’s history. She stood at the summit, where the heights were cold and lonely.
She still couldn’t make sense of her own heart.
But she knew she was willing to take in the view from the mountaintop with the person by her side, weather the endless solitude, and draw warmth from the faintest glow.
Ambitious heroine vs. man content to be her substitute
★They’re married from the beginning
★This is entirely fictional. The characters aren’t based on real people, the setting is imaginary, and the plot is made up. Any resemblance is coincidental.
Next book: Cold Fragrance
[Blurb]
Two years ago, Song Chenglin’s first love dumped him for being poor and climbed the social ladder into a wealthier man’s bed.
Two years later, he reclaimed his identity as the young master of a wealthy family and returned to the fold.
Inside the main hall, he knelt on both knees to pay his respects to his father and the family elders.
Alongside his powerful, distinguished father, whose bearing had not diminished with age, sat his former girlfriend, the woman he had yearned for and hated with all his heart.
Wang Fei sat beside his father, smiling at him, bright and beautiful.
A bone-deep chill swept through Song Chenglin.
The rich man she’d climbed into bed with was his father.
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One day after Wang Fei divorced Song Yanqing, Song Chenglin invited her to stroll through a garden. As he earnestly told her about a famous plant, a tall shadow suddenly fell in front of them.
Song Chenglin immediately tugged at Wang Fei and blurted, “Feifei, this is my dad. Hurry up and call him Uncle.”
He put an arm around Wang Fei and introduced her with righteous conviction. “Dad, this is my friend, Feifei.”
Song Yanqing stood tall and graceful, giving Wang Fei a meaningful look.
Looking at her former husband, Wang Fei parted her lips. “Uncle.”
The next day, Song Chenglin knocked on Wang Fei’s door to call her to breakfast.
With only a wall between them, Song Yanqing held her by the neck, his long fingers tracing her moist lips as he smiled carelessly. “Uncle, you called me Uncle. Why didn’t you call me Dad?”
Theme: Love is an eternal romance
Parents are very neurotic, bad and pretending. They don't care for their own children but care for other people's wild children. How can a few children who are fostered in other people's homes blatantly bully the decent eldest daughter in the family? An adopted wild girl dares to say harsh words to the eldest lady? I really don't understand. Can't a high-ranking person love his own children? What else can such a family do? It just packs up and waits for others to take advantage of it.
Why didn't the heroine's parents support her when she was abused? Why did they treat several adopted children better than the heroine's biological daughter? It's so unreasonable. Even if you don't like it, you can't just ignore it when your own child is abused. The heroine's father is in that position and still abuses his own daughter. Reporting the heroine's mother for abusing her adopted son is not as good as reporting the Meng family for child abuse. It's amazing. Well, this family, the hostess regrets that the hostess can get close to her even though they are not close to her. She thought Zhaozhao was already miserable enough, but Yu Xiaoying loved Zhaozhao very much, and Rong Shaoshan, the scumbag father, also showed paternal love to Zhaozhao. Are Meng Pingjiang and Ye Wanzhen human beings? I am very curious how the author will clean up the fact that these two are scumbag parents who treat outsiders better than their own children. The heroine's fake brothers and sisters all live a better life than the heroine, but the real one is being abused. It's so unreasonable.
I feel sorry for the heroine, the parents of both the male and female protagonists are a pair of bitches
The three fake brothers and sisters are really disgusting. They occupy the magpie's nest and want to eat up the whole family. The heroine's parents are really not human.
What outrageous parents and relatives...
The heroine's father is really sick. He gave up his biological daughter to support outsiders. The hero's parents are also abnormal.
The heroine's father is really disgusting [rolling eyes] Rong Shaoshan cheated on her but he was a good father to Zhao Zhao in the past (only before the illegitimate son and mistress came in). Meng Pingjiang doesn't help his daughter at all, and he treats his adopted children better than Meng Ying. Each of his adopted children is a slap in the face (I want to see what happens to them). However, the male protagonist is very conscious that he is much better than the scumbag Shang Chengyu (continuously beating the corpse of Shang Chengyu [white eyes] [white eyes] [white eyes] [white eyes])
Ha, I kind of want to donate money to build a golden statue for Comrade Xiaoliang. He is as compassionate as a god. Then are you willing to help others and give us Bai Yueguang some money? Oh, and give your wife a hand too. What is the beauty of adulthood? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Mr. Liang is a complete tolerant. He can raise ten thousand cats.
Laughter makes you rich. Comrade Xiaoliang can continue to be happy just like this. He who reconciles first enjoys life first.
It's also difficult to comment on the male protagonist's parents… one is empty-headed, and the other is refined and selfish 😂