A Rose by Design

[Delicate Web-Novel Author vs. Cool-Headed, Warmhearted Business Mogul]

[Age Gap + Love After Marriage + Long-Planned Romance + Sweet Love + Secret Marriage]

Ning Peiyun, the Shen family’s adopted daughter, becomes a daughter-in-law of the family thanks to an old letter. Her husband is Shen Jingyu, a rising business tycoon seven years her senior.

After two years of marriage, the young woman still cannot figure out why Shen Jingyu, a powerful, wealthy mogul who could have any woman he wanted, agreed to marry a sickly girl like her. He is always grumbling about what a nuisance she is, yet keeps spending money to treat her illness.

Even so, Ning Peiyun is still afraid of him.

So, on the night they got their marriage certificates, she made an excuse and moved back to school, so they would not have to live together.

But Shen Jingyu seems like a completely different person. He calls every few days, telling her to dress warmly when it is cold or asking if she feels unwell. Even after she graduates and stays at home, he comes back every day to keep her company. And most unbelievably, this man gives her an outrageously expensive safety lock for her twenty-third birthday.

The young woman is completely baffled. Does he like her? Just as she works up the courage to ask him outright, Shen Jingyu, reeking of alcohol, pushes open the door and pulls her into his arms.

The question on her lips turns into: “Shen Jingyu, you’re drunk.”

But the man only holds her tighter.

“I must be drunk. Otherwise, why would I want your heart so badly? Jiaojiao, I’ve done so much for you. Why don’t you love me yet?”