[Possessive love]
Yao Guan heard her husband say behind her, "He's coming back." The words came out of nowhere, but they both knew who he meant.
He was now her brother-in-law, and once her lover.
After cruelly abandoning her and giving her to his younger brother, he had hidden away in Jinling for three years. Now he was actually coming back.
She heard her husband ask cautiously behind her, "He Guang, if you're... not feeling well tomorrow, we don't have to go pay our respects to Mother. She knows I'm always in poor health and won't mind."
He coughed a few times, and his voice gradually faded. Yao Guan couldn't help smiling. Of course her husband cared.
After all, back then the two of them had been in love, and everyone knew it. They had even come close to being formally betrothed.
But, alas...
In the end, she married his own younger brother.
*
That man still looked just as he had back then, a carefree young man untouched by any hardship. Seeing him stirred a few traces of resentment and hatred in Yao Guan's heart.
"Why should it be fair? I live each day full of resentment, and I treat my husband coldly, while he doesn't look haggard in the least, as though nothing ever happened. Shouldn't the one who started it all be heartbroken?"
So she began to show rare affection toward her husband. The two gradually seemed deeply devoted to each other, putting on a show in front of her former lover. Looking at him, she thought, Tsk, so he can feel pain after all.
"He Guang..."
"Yao Guan..."
Her husband's voice and his collided, creating an inexplicable awkwardness.
That day, her younger sister-in-law had come home for a visit. They had known each other for years, and she meant to lighten the mood, so she teased, "Since when did you have another name?"
Yao Guan's expression remained unchanged. "My husband gave me that courtesy name. He said 'He Guang Tong Chen.'" She paused, the corners of her mouth curling in a tender smile. "I like it very much."
Her husband tightened his grip on her hand, his eyes full of concern. Hers, meanwhile, were full of satisfaction, while that man's were full of pain. How wonderful.
At last, she wasn't the only one suffering night and day.
For every ounce of pain he felt, she felt an ounce less. Justice had been served.
And Shen Xi, watching the wife beside him, knew her heart was still stirred by his elder brother. Shadows covered his handsome face, and a flash of ruthlessness crossed his eyes. He had managed to take her from his brother back then. So what if his brother had returned now? In this life, Yao Guan could only ever be his!
A beautiful, delicate woman who seems refined and gentle but is actually deeply calculating, petty, and a little liar * A haughty, aloof man who seems proud and untouchable but is actually extremely possessive, a scheming green tea, and a ferocious, relentless wife-stealer who plots every step of the way
Content warning: A love story full of bitterness and angst, extremely melodramatic, with plenty of coercion and taking. Readers who dislike these themes should proceed with caution.
Theme: Live in the present and bravely embrace new challenges
