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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