A Gentle Invasion

"Marriage first, love later + The convenient stand-in takes the throne + Both are each other's only partners + Sexual tension + Secret crush comes true + Sweet enough to melt your heart"

(Not a wish-fulfillment story, and not fast-paced. A gentle, slow-burn sweet romance that gets better as it goes. Read with care if that's not your thing.)

Clear-headed genius designer X Chaste, fatherly heir to a wealthy family

To buy a home and stay in Hengqing, Nan Xi marries Huo Lanzhou after a friend introduces them.

She thinks they'll simply get what they need from each other and share a home. But after the wedding, he is thoughtful and considerate, respects and cherishes her, and uses his tenderness to work his way into every corner of her heart.

Nan Xi has only ever glimpsed love in books and films. For the first time, she feels as if it might be happening to her.

She can't believe it, so she decides to wait and see.

Later, the man who has developed a taste for her draws her into love's whirlpool again and again.

Huo Lanzhou, always restrained, proper, and the very picture of a gentleman, holds her close and murmurs hoarsely, “Nan Xi, if I'd known being with you would feel this wonderful, I should have met you sooner.”

Only later does Nan Xi learn that he'd really known her for a very long time. She was never lucky by nature. She was simply the wish-granting well of a heaven-blessed prodigy who was willing to make a wish for only one person.