The Husband Swap

Bai Shengsheng believed Hong Lan was a good man. She endured her in-laws’ abuse and learned how to manage the household. At long last, just as she looked forward to a loving marriage and was carrying their child, her enraged husband shoved her down the steps.

After losing the baby and being imprisoned, she realized with horror that her husband had been replaced!

Only when she died consumed by hatred did she learn the truth: the person who had always shared her bed was Hong Ming, the Hong family’s second son, whose military champion title had been stolen and who had taken the blame for his elder brother.

All the Hong family’s glory went to the eldest son, Hong Lan; all its misfortune was heaped upon the second son, Hong Ming.

When she awoke again, it was the day the Hong family came to offer betrothal gifts. Bai Shengsheng rejected Hong Lan in front of everyone and insisted on marrying Hong Ming instead. She demanded that the family split up cleanly so she could distance herself from her biased in-laws.

On their wedding night, Hong Lan, drunk, kicked down the door and demanded to know why she had changed grooms. Hong Ming stood up for her, and she silently resolved that in this life she would protect her husband, Hong Ming, and tear away the Hong residence’s hypocritical facade!

Yet the next morning, when she rose early to pay her respects to her in-laws, a maid came rushing in, stumbling and shouting, “Last night, Second Young Master forced the young lady from Madam’s sister’s family. She said she could no longer bear to live in disgrace and hanged herself in Second Young Master’s bridal chamber!”