[Honest, delicate young wife × rough stepson with hidden intentions]
Wanxiang's husband is dead. Her relatives say she brought about his death, and claim she has a lover and will report her to the authorities so they can throw her in prison.
Qiaorong is driven to the end of her rope and can only hang herself.
As she loops her sash over a beam, a tall, handsome man suddenly appears in the mourning hall and saves her.
His face is full of murderous intent. He gives the relatives who were tormenting her a cold look, then deftly slides the knife that cut her sash back into its sheath and respectfully calls her, "Mother."
Only then does Wanxiang realize that this is the stepson her husband spoke of, Cui Fengcheng, who has spent years stationed at the frontier and whom she has never met.
*
Cui Fengcheng has always remembered what his father once asked of him:
"Your mother is young and has no one to rely on. If anything should happen to me, she may not survive. For my sake, please take care of her a little. Consider it a way to honor the father-son bond we've shared in this life."
So he travels a thousand miles to his hometown, saves her from the relatives who would devour her alive, and brings her back to live under his care.
At the time, he doesn't yet know that she has a special constitution and needs someone to massage her calves every night, or else the pain makes it impossible for her to walk.
For a man who has never been with a woman, this is truly difficult.
The faint fragrance wafting from her when he draws near, and the muffled moans she lets out by accident as he massages her, make his back tense.
By day, she is his elder, and he treats her with respect.
At night, she becomes an ordinary woman, and he quietly begins to want to possess her.
Every time he returns from outside and sees their underpants hanging side by side in the courtyard, his lower abdomen tightens.
But she is his stepmother. Though his father is dead and she has no connection to his family anymore, he still holds on to his principles. Apart from indulging in some unspeakable erotic dreams at night, he never crosses the line.
He thinks they will go on living this way forever, until his father "comes back from the dead" and appears before them.
*
Cui Xian never thought he would make it back alive.
The day he reunites with his wife, Wanxiang, he is so happy that he embraces her and weeps.
"Erlang." He thanks his son. "You've worked hard."
And his son responds with perfect propriety: "Looking after Mother is my duty as her son."
Yet that very night, his wife disappears.
It is two months before he finds her.
As he reaches the door, he hears suggestive sounds coming from inside, and his eyes blaze with fury.
He's about to kick the door open and kill the beast abusing his wife with one blow, when a particularly familiar voice suddenly comes from within:
"Good Wanxiang, be good and lift your hips a little higher."
"Has Father ever been here?"
#The heroine divorces the male lead's father at the beginning and was never entered into the Cui family genealogy. She has no legal or blood relationship with the male lead. 2026/4/1
Theme: Live well and never forget your original aspirations
