After the Hated Fake Young Master Was Forced Into an Arranged Marriage

Jiang Shiyi was the fake young master. After eighteen years of living in luxury with the Jiang family, he was finally thrown out.

Three months later, the Jiang family brought him back, only because their marriage alliance partner, Yuan Lü, came from a prominent family, was notoriously particular, and, most importantly, liked men.

The Jiang family didn’t dare risk using their real son, so they pushed this “useless pawn” out to take the blow.

Jiang Shiyi put on a bespoke suit and stepped into the marriage banquet, knowing he was nothing but a stand-in.

He expected nothing, hoping only to get the money the Jiang family had promised him so he could pay for his uncle’s treatment.

But he never expected that the man standing above everyone else would fall for him at first sight, only to extinguish every possibility with his own hands:

“Flashy, affected, shallow.”

“Not my type.”

“It’s only a marriage alliance. No need to get emotionally involved.”

So Yuan Lü coldly watched him be humiliated at the banquet and harassed by the Jiang family, eating cold food in a corner, and never once offered a hand.

He hid his feelings deep inside and pushed Jiang Shiyi farther and farther away.

Later, the two families fell out, the marriage alliance ended early, and the Yuan family chose a new partner.

That was when the real young master came to him:

“Brother, why don’t you come with me?”

Then, after a car accident and a fire, Jiang Shiyi’s death certificate was delivered to Yuan Lü.

Yuan Lü went mad.

He searched every Jiang family file and reviewed every security camera recording, nearly losing his mind.

“Jiang Shiyi, I don’t believe you’re really dead!”

At that very moment, Jiang Shiyi was lying in a dugout at an archaeological station in the northwest, eating instant noodles and studying satellite maps as he prepared to survey a cluster of Western Han tombs the next day.

Loving someone was too hard. Archaeology was much simpler.

And the real young master, Jiang Chi, sat quietly beside him, saying tenderly and obsessively:

“Brother, could you try… to like me a little too?”

Years later, the results of an archaeological dig in the northwest were being livestreamed to the public. Yuan Lü happened to glance at the screen and suddenly lost control.

There was the person he had thought long buried in his memories.

Theme: True love lasts forever.