”At this point, you still dare to say you don’t want to get married?” The man’s tone suddenly rose, and the carefully constructed mask of a kind father shattered overnight. “Don’t forget, we have no obligation to take care of your adoptive mother who desperately needs a lung transplant.”
The burly man looked contemptuously at his newly found son, who was pale and thin like a stunted chick. That was bad enough, but he would blush and tremble at the slightest provocation, and his speech was stammering and completely lacked any manly manner. The man was furious just looking at him.
Let alone comparing him to her own precious son, even sending him to the Gu family heir for a ghost marriage would be an overstatement, let alone the fact that it’s just a way to bring good luck.
The well-maintained, beautiful woman embraced Yu Yuan and exchanged a knowing glance with her husband.
She gently patted Yu Yuan’s trembling back and patiently comforted him: “I’m sorry, Yuan, your father and I are really desperate. The Gu family can bankrupt the Wang family with a flick of their finger. At that time, let alone a lung transplant for your adopted mother, we won’t even be able to afford the cost of conservative treatment…”
The woman’s acting skills were superb; not only did her eyes well up with tears, but her voice also gradually choked up. Yu Yuan, who was comforted by her thoughtfulness, was completely stunned—everything in front of him matched his dream perfectly!
Yu Yuan had a very long and complicated dream the night before. He dreamed that he was living in a book, a melodramatic hodgepodge of real and fake young masters, live-in sons-in-law, and revenge in a wealthy family.
The male lead is the “fake young master” who was switched at birth with Yu Yuan. After his true identity is revealed, he becomes an abandoned son of a wealthy family and has no choice but to enter the entertainment industry. During this time, he is favored by a rich heiress and forced to marry into her family. However, he is subjected to various forms of humiliation by his future in-laws, but ultimately turns the tables and defeats them.
However, the so-called real and fake young masters were just a scheme orchestrated by the Wang couple to find an unlucky boy to help their son get married in place of him.
The Wang family wanted to get close to the Gu family, but they couldn’t bear to let their precious son marry a sickly man to bring them good luck. So, they came up with a scheme to create a fake young master, choosing Yu Yuan, a poor student from an orphanage whose adoptive mother was seriously ill and needed expensive surgery, as a substitute bride.
Yu Yuan suffered from school bullying for nearly two years during elementary school, which caused him to have an inescapable social anxiety despite his clear understanding of the situation. He dreamed of living in seclusion in the mountains.
He had hoped for his biological parents and truly believed that the Wang couple were his long-lost parents. So after being withdrawn for many days, he mustered up the courage to refuse, and as a result, the Wang couple locked him up.
But to his utter surprise, Gu Shaocheng died not long after he married into the Gu family in the story.
Not only that, after Gu Shaocheng’s death, Old Master Gu harbored resentment towards him and forbade him from ever stepping out of the Gu family home again, punishing him to suffer loneliness and die in the villa…
Yu Yuan was stunned.
Forbidden to step out of the house, destined to live a lonely life until the end, living in a large villa… Is this punishment?
This is clearly the job he’s been dreaming of—a job directly related to his field!
Yu Yuan initially thought it was just an exceptionally realistic dream. After waking up, he deliberately refused again according to the dream’s plot. The Wang couple’s words of response were exactly the same as in the dream, making Yu Yuan have no choice but to believe it, no matter how hard he tried. His chance to make his dream come true had really arrived!
As if he had won the lottery, his adrenaline surged, and Yu Yuan was so excited that he wanted to roll on the ground. But when he was with the Wang couple, he naturally suppressed all his emotions in his inner world and kept his head very low.
Watching him lower his head and remain silent, Wang’s father thought he was a dull, cowardly fool. He even felt that such a low-class procedure was not worth the 700,000 yuan surgery fee, and that if the lung transplant went smoothly, the subsequent treatment costs could exceed one million yuan…
When the stylist finished styling her, the couple thought that although Yu Yuan was timid, his full forehead covered by thick bangs and the delicate oval face lines behind his large-framed glasses were quite pretty.
He’s just too fair-skinned, and with his thin and frail body, he doesn’t look like a man. Maybe he’s just a bit of a jerk, and he’d be perfect for marrying a man to bring him good luck.
Thinking of this, Wang’s father became even more blunt: “It’s your good fortune to marry into the Gu family. After you marry into the family, take good care of Mr. Gu so that your adoptive mother can have her surgery smoothly, understand?”
In the past, even if Yu Yuan was obsequious to outsiders, he would still think to himself: “Do you want this good fortune?”
But now all Yu Yuan wants to say is: Why didn’t you tell him about this incredible blessing sooner?!
Seeing that he slowly nodded and his mouth opened and closed as if he was still going to resist, Wang’s father was too lazy to waste any more words on him. He gave the nanny a look and told her to bring over the spiked wine, intending to drug him and tie him to the car.
In reality, Yu Yuan was eager to marry, and after waiting with his head down for a while, he realized that the Wang couple had no intention of opening the door to take him away.
Yu Yuan, who always stutters when speaking to strangers, mustered up his courage for his dream, but before he could even open his mouth, the nanny had already brought over a tray with a small glass of somewhat cloudy wine on it.
Yu Yuan thought of the story where the sickly Gu family was beyond cure, so they resorted to this crooked method as a last-ditch effort. Looking down at the bright red wedding robe he was wearing, and then at the murky wine, his first thought was, “Could it be that incense ash has been mixed in?”
The more they try to fix it, the worse it gets; it seems the Gu family heir’s health is really not good.
…Ah, then isn’t he one step closer to his dream?
A complex expression of shame, guilt, and smugness flashed in Yu Yuan’s eyes. Before his father could put him down, he immediately picked up his wine cup and downed it in one gulp. Ignoring his burning throat, he impatiently urged, “Can we…can we leave now?”
The Wang couple looked at each other and said, “…Uh, okay.”
*
Yu Yuan got into the car, feeling both excited and nervous.
The sickly man he was about to marry, Gu Shaocheng, was the sole heir of the top-tier wealthy Gu family, but he had been bedridden for many years due to a congenital illness.
Despite the Gu family’s best efforts to protect him, some rumors still circulated, saying that he was violent and ruthless, and that his mental state was not quite normal after being ill for a long time. They claimed that he had beaten the nanny who was taking care of him, causing her to become paralyzed from the waist down, and that she was still paralyzed in the hospital.
This was all information that Yu Yuan could easily find, so he was extremely resistant to it beforehand.
No family with a conscience would agree to marry their child off like this. Regardless of the outcome of such a marriage to bring good luck, the person involved would not have a good ending. Therefore, the conditions offered by the Gu family patriarch were extremely generous.
As a result, the Wang family couldn’t bear to lose their child but wanted to catch the wolf, so they came up with this trick of shifting the blame… Before Yu Yuan could think about it deeply, drowsiness came quickly and suddenly. Yu Yuan thought it was because he had a dream all night and hadn’t rested well, so he tilted his head and fell asleep.
When he was helped out of the car, he was still half asleep. Yu Yuan could vaguely hear the sounds around him, but he couldn’t muster any strength. He was being lifted up and swayed like a puppet, and lost consciousness once again in a daze.
When Yu Yuan woke up again, it was already late at night. His head was still dizzy and throbbing. At this moment, he realized that he had been given some random drugs by the Wang couple.
He was just a minor character in the book, while the Wang couple could be considered half of the main characters. The description of his refusal to marry focused on his timidity, and it seemed reasonable to omit the couple’s low-class methods.
Yu Yuan cursed inwardly, thinking how ridiculous it was. He rubbed his throbbing temples and immediately became anxious after realizing that his glasses had been thrown away.
The thick bangs that used to provide a sense of security were now trimmed and combed back. His glasses were missing, and his headphones were not with him. Yu Yuan felt like he was running around naked. Luckily, no one was around, otherwise he might have had a sudden shock.
Is there no trust between people? He already agreed to marry him, so why resort to such methods?
Psychotropic drugs are prescription drugs that cannot be sold on the market, but smuggling and trafficking are rampant. Many of them are made by privately synthesizing and mixing raw materials. The difficulty in controlling the production environment, by-products, and concentration and dosage will further amplify the toxic effects of the drugs.
Yu Yuan felt increasingly distressed. Despite feeling extremely dizzy, he still wanted to go to the bathroom to induce vomiting. He habitually reached out his right hand to turn on the light.
Perhaps because the scene change was completed while he was not fully conscious, and the effects of the drug had not yet worn off, although he knew that he had married into the Gu family, his hands moved much faster than his mind. Yu Yuan slapped the “table lamp” with his hand.
With a crisp “snap,” his reason finally returned. Feeling the damp warmth from his palm, Yu Yuan swallowed hard… This real leather texture was clearly not the cheap plastic lamp he had bought for five yuan at the flea market.
After the initial shock subsided, Yu Yuan realized that Gu Shaocheng was already on the verge of being killed by him, probably barely clinging to life and not having much time left, so he probably wouldn’t feel much from this blow.
He tried to reassure himself, but still held his breath and carefully withdrew his hand. As soon as he raised it, his wrist was grabbed by a large, hot hand.
The warm yellow light came on, and through the soft focus effect of Yu Yuan’s nearsightedness, he met a cold, stern face covered in frost, with dark, sinister eyes coldly fixed on him.
With just one glance, Yu Yuan felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, experiencing a chilling and suffocating sensation.
With a slightly mixed-race look and deep bone structure, sword-like eyebrows, bright eyes, a high nose, and thin lips, even with a sickly pale complexion, he still possesses an exceptionally handsome appearance that is hard to find anywhere else.
Even if Yu Yuan hadn’t lost his glasses, he wouldn’t have been in the mood to appreciate how the person in front of him was so cold and aloof. He only felt terrified and panicked. How could someone with his life hanging by a thread still open his eyes and be able to fight!
The most terrifying thing in this world is a fully conscious stranger standing right next to you! Help…
An instinctive fear caused Yu Yuan’s brain to shut down, and all he wanted to do was run away. His face grew paler and paler, and the lingering effects of the medication made his heart beat even faster than usual.
Yu Yuan’s will to survive had seeped into every pore of his body. Without the “protection” of his large-framed glasses and thick bangs, his round, clear almond-shaped eyes were filled with terror.
Gu Shaocheng was not surprised to see that he wanted to escape.
Everyone around him wanted to escape, even his own mother tried to strangle him… Thinking of his past life, Gu Shaocheng curled his lips in a mocking smile.
He then gripped Yu Yuan’s wrist tightly and pulled him forward. Sure enough, the slender wrist bones in his palm trembled. He was so afraid of him, yet he still had to submit to him…
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Gu Shaocheng’s thumb slowly caressed Yu Yuan’s soft skin, as if he were enjoying the trembling fear in front of him. After a long while, he slowly and deliberately spoke: “Why be so afraid?”