2024.11.24
When Sheng Hui was sixteen, his family went bankrupt. Unable to repay their enormous debts, he gave himself to the young master of the Fu family as a playmate.
Calling him a playmate was generous. He was little more than a servant.
At school, he was Fu Yan's lackey. At home, he was a dog Fu Yan could summon and dismiss as he pleased.
He had to be obedient, because he still had a younger sister to support.
He had to swallow every insult, even when the young masters in their circle made him a laughingstock, sneering behind his back that he was a worthless nobody from the wrong side of the tracks.
From sixteen to twenty-two, he endured six whole years before the chance to escape, promised from the start, finally arrived: he had to bear Fu Yan a child before he could leave.
The Fu family had only one heir in each generation, and none of them had children until after the age of forty. Grandmother Fu was displeased, so she had someone's birth charts read. The result pointed straight to Sheng Hui.
He was a rare person capable of bearing children, perfectly matching the fortune that Fu Yan was destined to have no luck with women.
Fu Yan said he hated how Sheng Hui would do anything to climb the social ladder, yet he still accepted their "business arrangement," at first once a month, then once a week, and eventually whenever he got a taste for it and wanted to come home.
Fu Yan refused to acknowledge their relationship and still mocked him in front of everyone as a dog kept by the Fu family, a worthless nobody who had thrown himself at them.
Sheng Hui offered no explanation. He carried out his duties on schedule, and finally, one day, he got pregnant and received the reward he was owed.
He disappeared so quickly that by the time the young master Fu realized something was wrong, every trace that Sheng Hui had ever existed had vanished.
Then, three years later, Fu Yan suddenly heard that his childhood friend, who was living abroad, was getting married...
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