[Marriage Before Love + Whirlwind Wedding + Power Couple + Sweet Romance + Revenge + Satisfying Read]
After six years together, Jiang Ning looks forward to a happy married life, only to discover that her boyfriend has cheated on her with her paternal half-sister. She doesn’t cry or make a scene. She promptly ends the relationship.
Pei Zelin regrets it terribly and pesters her every day.
When he hears Jiang Ning has married on a whim, he rushes over to demand an explanation, even after getting into a car accident.
“Ningning, don’t punish yourself for my mistake. I know I was wrong. Please forgive me, okay?”
“You should be calling her Aunt by marriage now. If you keep pestering her, you’ll be committing a grave offense against your own family.”
At the entrance to the civil affairs bureau, the man beside Jiang Ning firmly wraps an arm around her waist and speaks with authority. The two bright red certificates he deliberately holds up make Pei Zelin’s head spin.
“Ningning, how could you marry my uncle just to get back at me? You don’t love him at all! And he doesn’t love you either!”
Pei Zelin pleads with her in anguished disbelief. Jiang Ning smiles brightly, rises on tiptoe, and kisses Pei Jingrui on the cheek. Her voice is gentle. “I fell in love with your uncle at first sight. I’m madly in love with him.”
Watching her radiant smile, Pei Jingrui’s heart skips a beat. They’re only using each other, yet he finds himself playing along with Jiang Ning’s antics.
“What a coincidence. I feel the same way.”
After being betrayed, Jiang Ning no longer believes in love. Yet in a marriage built on mutual use, she gradually loses her heart.
Years later, Jiang Ning asks, “When did you actually start falling for me?”
Looking at Jiang Ning’s face, Pei Jingrui thinks back to the morning they went to register their marriage. She had smiled brightly and said she loved him, that she was madly in love with him.
“Much earlier than I thought.”
