[The Pursuit of His Wife at the Crematorium / Both Are Substitutes]
After her twin sister dies unexpectedly, Ruan Yan takes her place and marries into the Song family.
She knows Song Mingyu is deeply devoted to her older sister, and that the two were childhood sweethearts whose love was unshakable.
On their wedding night, Song Mingyu doesn't even lift Ruan Yan's red veil. He leaves the city alone and spends the entire night sitting at her sister's grave, leaving Ruan Yan to spend the night alone in the bridal chamber.
"The only woman I'll ever take as my wife is your older sister."
Song Mingyu thinks he's made himself perfectly clear. Yet every time he meets Ruan Yan's gaze, he keenly senses the deep affection and admiration in her eyes.
Ruan Yan likes him.
That much is undeniable.
She'll kneel for hours before the ancestral hall, day and night, praying for Song Mingyu's safety.
She'll even brave the wind and snow to leave the city and meet him.
Everyone thinks Ruan Yan deserves better. Someone like her deserves so much more.
Ruan Yan lowers her eyes and says softly, "I don't mind."
She doesn't mind Song Mingyu's coldness, or the hurtful things he says.
All Ruan Yan wants is to stay by Song Mingyu's side and remain in the Song family.
It isn't until later that Song Mingyu learns that Ruan Yan's prayers in the ancestral hall weren't for him, but for the face that resembled his younger brother's.
She entered the Song family ancestral hall as the wife of its eldest son, but every prayer and wish she made was for his younger brother.
His younger brother had "died" on the battlefield three years ago.
Then, three months after Song Mingyu's wedding, he returned to the capital.
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