The Heir She Saved Only to Abandon
I'm the neglected real son of the Duncans, Austin Duncan.
By the time my family finally brings me home, the fake heir, Edward Duncan, has already been carefully groomed into the perfect successor.
I'm nothing more than a country bumpkin.
Edward goes through with a prestigious arranged marriage and becomes the son-in-law of the powerful Cooper family.
As for me, I'm unceremoniously married off to Clara Prescott, the illegitimate daughter of the Prescott family, whom no one acknowledges.
Everyone looks at me with contempt. I assume Clara is no different.
But she smiles at me and says, "Austin, we aren't free to choose for the first half of our lives. But I'll protect you from now on."
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