Little Shadow [Secret Marriage]

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Marriage first, love later | Stealing someone's partner | Size difference | Everyday life

Character setup: Sweet, pampered heroine ★ Gentle but domineering daddy

Blurb:

The beloved young heiress of the Zhi family in Nancheng once had a romance everyone envied. Her boyfriend was the second young master of a top-tier family in the capital.

Then the Zhi family went through a crisis, and before long, the young heiress was dumped.

For a time, everyone in Nancheng's social circles pitied and mocked her.

Then the young heiress disappeared.

Who could have guessed that two years later, the Nancheng social scene would erupt in an uproar?

Several young heiresses from Nancheng had angered a powerful figure in the capital and been summoned for a chat.

The families involved rushed to the capital overnight to apologize.

A mature man sat in a place of honor, lounging regally on the sofa, his presence radiating authority.

His voice was cool and quietly commanding as he said, "My wife is a precious jewel whom I cherish above all else. If you can't keep your daughters in line, I, Shang, don't mind disciplining them for you."

The powerful men who had come from Nancheng to bail out their daughters were all trembling, yet bewildered.

Wasn't the heir to the Shang family famous in the capital for being upright, proper, and unfailingly courteous?

And hadn't Miss Zhi's high-profile boyfriend been the second young master of the Shang family?

He had even dumped her.

Since when had she become the wife of the Shang family's heir?!

Shang Yu had set his sights on his cousin's woman.

With everything falling into place, he simply made her his own.

His little wife didn't care much for him.

Until one day, he carried his drunk little wife into the bathtub to wash her.

Sitting in the tub, the young woman looked at him, her eyes gradually reddening.

Then tears began to fall as she sobbed, "Why are you so cold to me?"

Shang Yu raised a hand to wipe her tears, then heard her murmur, "I hate you."

The man suddenly laughed.

Later, at a leading medical AI summit, the heir to the Shang family made his first public appearance since returning to the country, joining the event by video.

At the end of the summit, the host asked him to stay and answer a few more questions from the audience.

The young woman had just woken up and didn't understand what was going on. In a blue nightgown with a Peter Pan collar and frills, she padded barefoot from the connecting passageway into the study.

Still drowsy, she called out softly, "You old geezer, I'm hungry."

She heard the man reply in a sudden, tender voice, "Sorry, my wife just came in."

Before Zhi Ying could react, the man had already crossed the room and swept her up in his arms. His eyes held a helpless warning about her forgetting to put on shoes.

She blinked and glanced at the computer screen on the desk.

Two seconds later, she buried her little face against his chest.

The whole internet had already exploded!

Soon, the hashtag #Shocking! Two Men, One Woman: Top Tycoon's Heir Accused of Stealing His Younger Brother's Wife# shot to the top of the trending list.

Bonus scene:

The second young master of the Shang family had never imagined that the cousin he had looked up to and admired since childhood would one day steal his own cousin's woman.

In everyone's eyes, his cousin had always been composed and level-headed, proper and courteous, a gentleman as untouchable as the moon on a high terrace.

He was devastated. He watched as the woman he loved attended a family banquet with his cousin's arm around her waist, and darkness surged within him.

Late at night, the second young master of the Shang family emerged like a sinister ghost from an empty corner and embraced his cousin's wife.

He had no idea that a pair of deep eyes from above was watching him intently.

After escaping her ex, Zhi Ying returned to her room. She was just wondering why the lights were off when a solid, towering figure pressed her against the back of the door.

The man's chilling voice drifted slowly beside her ear.

"Baby spent seven minutes and forty-eight seconds with her ex tonight."

"How was catching up with your old flame?"

"Did you enjoy it?"

The man's breath grew hotter, and his voice more dangerous.

"Did you like being held by your ex or by your husband better?"

"You've got some other man's scent all over you. You're such a dirty little cat."

Gradually, the danger in his voice turned into the most intimate whispers between husband and wife.

"Don't cry tonight, baby."

"Daddy will love you right."

10-year age gap | Size difference | Height difference

The heroine has trouble with her eyes early on, but she will get better.

Another soft and cuddly little darling, just the way I like them. Hehehe.

Theme: Loving someone is like tending a flower.