My Foolish Godfather Husband Led Me Back to Conquer New York

Synopsis

The stepmother informed Evelyn Hart that the De Luca family had come to propose. It was well-known throughout the New York mafia circles that De Luca heir Nico had been mentally damaged after being shot three years prior and now only smiled idiotically and chased butterflies. The truly powerful families were reluctant to marry off their daughters to him, so they turned to her – Hart’s illegitimate daughter, whose mother had passed away, whose father was indifferent, whose stepmother despised her, and whose younger sister was ready to step on her at any moment. Evelyn agreed to the marriage. She had only one condition: to take old servant Martha and the medicine chest with her. At the wedding, Nico ducked beneath Evelyn’s veil and exclaimed, “Darling, you’re so beautiful!” The guests were all laughing. However, Madame De Luca fastened her ruby brooch onto Evelyn’s chest and declared that from that day forward, Evelyn would be the young mistress of the De Luca family. After their marriage, Nico would bring wildflowers to Evelyn every day, stack jewelry on her, awkwardly attempt to put bracelets on her, sleep on the sofa with a pillow under his arm at night, and say, “If the bad guys come, I’ll protect Darling.” Evelyn gradually realized that something was amiss – the calluses on Nico’s hands, the cry he uttered in his sleep, “Don’t shoot!”, the old gardener who delivered the vegetables standing like a trained soldier, and the old lady’s gaze towards Nico, devoid of pity and filled with expectation. At the Mid-Autumn Festival feast, the assassin appeared, and Evelyn immediately stepped in front of Nico. As the lights illuminated, she saw Nico brandishing a gun and pressing it against the assassin’s forehead. His eyes were sharp and cold – there was no trace of foolishness. He had never been insane. Three years prior, someone had leaked information about a plot to assassinate him. After surviving, he pretended to be mentally impaired for three years, allowing the conspirators to become complacent. The next day, Nico cleaned out three key lines of the De Luca family overnight. Meanwhile, evidence of the stepmother’s years of embezzling family funds and siphoning off Evelyn’s mother’s inheritance was anonymously sent. The stepmother was stripped of her authority, and Sophia’s marriage crumbled. Standing in the rain, she begged Evelyn for forgiveness, but Evelyn slammed the door shut – after all, she had stood in the rain too many times before, and now it was someone else’s turn. Three months later, Nico officially took over the family business. In front of all the mafia families in New York, he pinned the emerald brooch on Evelyn’s chest and declared her to be his sole mistress, with no other women in his life. His father came to apologize to her, and she replied, “Yes, you owe me. But I will not hate you because you are no longer important.” A year later, the De Luca estate boasted a herb garden. Many years later, tales of Nico De Luca continued to circulate in the underworld of New York – about how he had fooled everyone for three years, then turned on his enemies overnight, and about how he had done the most outrageous thing of all by declaring that he would have only one wife for the rest of his life, in front of all the Mafia families. Evelyn once thought she was simply a discarded child abandoned by the Hart family. Later, she realized that some departures were not about falling, but rather about fate finally bringing you to a place where you truly belong.