Forced into a marriage meant for her scheming stepsister, Su He never expected to walk down the aisle-only to end up marrying the elusive and powerful Bo Xiuyan, her supposed fiancé's enigmatic uncle. What started as a bureaucratic blunder became an unpredictable entanglement with the man known to command empires with a glance.
Her stepsister fumed. "Don't dream, Su He. A crow dressed as a phoenix is still just a crow! You really think Bo Xiuyan cares about you?"
But reality proved far more complicated-and a lot more indulgent. As whispers of a long-lost first love circle her marriage, Su He fights to guard her heart. Red-eyed and furious, she confronts her husband.
He responds by wrapping an arm around her waist with one hand... and holding a durian in the other.
"Wife," Bo Xiuyan says with a crooked smile, "don't believe everything you hear."
Then he kisses her and adds, "You eat the flesh. I'll kneel on the skin."
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