Married to My Ex’s Aunt: Love After Marriage

On the night of her engagement, Xie Wanling’s world fell apart. Her fiancée was caught cheating, and Xie Wanling was unceremoniously kicked out of the hotel with nowhere to go.

Standing on the curb in the pouring rain, a black Rolls-Royce pulled up. As the window rolled down, it revealed a face defined by a cold, aristocratic elegance. Reflexively, Xie Wanling called out, “Auntie.”

But this wasn’t her aunt. This was Lu Mingyi the aunt of her now-ex-fiancée, Lu Cheng.

Lu Mingyi looked at her with an indifferent gaze and spoke bluntly: “If you fail to marry into the Lu family tonight, you’ll be the laughingstock of the entire city by tomorrow.”

But how could she go through with it? Was she expected to spend her marriage watching her wife flaunt an affair? As Xie Wanling’s eyes welled with tears, the woman stepped out of the car. Her icy fingertips brushed against the corner of Xie Wanling’s eye.

“Lu Cheng isn’t the only unmarried person in the Lu family,” Lu Mingyi whispered. “There is also the person standing right in front of you.”

Lu Mingyi was a titan of industry in Hong Kong, a woman whose power and reputation commanded absolute fear and respect. Even though Xie Wanling had once saved her life, the younger girl never dared to overstep.

Xie Wanling assumed this marriage was merely Lu Mingyi’s way of repaying a debt. When socialites mocked her, asking if “sleeping in an empty room” felt cold in a loveless marriage, Xie Wanling thought of Lu Mingyi’s increasingly fervent embrace the night before—a heat she couldn’t escape until dawn.

“Mingyi is a bit too clingy,” Xie Wanling replied, rubbing her aching waist. “I actually find it a bit too hot.”

As she spoke, she spotted a grim-faced Lu Cheng walking by. Xie Wanling deliberately stopped her. “Forgot your manners? Why haven’t you greeted your Auntie yet?”

She relished playing the role of the protected “spoiled wife,” until the day she stumbled upon a hidden truth. Lu Cheng’s “accidental” infidelity had been orchestrated by Lu Mingyi from the very beginning.

As for Xie Wanling herself Lu Mingyi had been hunting her all along.

Themes: Female empowerment and agency.