My Archrival Has Secretly Loved Me for Years

[The main story is complete, so enjoy with confidence!]

[Marriage Before Love|Secret Crush Turns Mutual|Rivals|Childhood Friends|Slow-Burn Romance|Sweet 1v1]

Xing Jiayi was fed up with her parents pressuring her to get married. After her fourth disastrous blind date, she came up with a solution to end the problem once and for all: rather than being forced into blind dates and marriage, she would find someone and marry him by agreement!

But before Xing Jiayi had a chance to look for a “husband,” an accident led to one reckless night with her nemesis, Yue Qingji.

Afterward, Xing Jiayi made a quick getaway. She claimed that work stress was getting to her and she needed a trip abroad to clear her head, leaving the man who wanted to take responsibility fuming.

When she discovered she was pregnant, Xing Jiayi planned to keep it secret forever. But one day, the truth came out. Yue Qingji rushed abroad overnight, arriving at her door in the rain and pressing the doorbell.

“Yiyi, how long were you planning to hide here with my child, keeping it from both our families?”

*

After Yue Qingji sabotaged her fourth blind date, Xing Jiayi finally snapped.

“Yue Qingji, you just can’t stand to see me happy, can you?”

As if he hadn’t heard her, Yue Qingji stirred his steaming coffee. A smile played on his lips, though there was a hint of seriousness in his eyes.

“Why don’t you consider me instead?”

*

Not long after they married, Xing Jiayi gradually learned that their years of hostility had all been the result of a series of misunderstandings.

Xing Jiayi watched Yue Qingji patiently coaxing their daughter to sleep beside the baby’s cradle and pondered: So even nemeses can have a secret crush from their youth…

[A genuinely tsundere, oblivious, free-spirited heroine VS a seemingly proper, restrained, quietly flirtatious hero]

[Please note: This is a slow-burn romance, focused mainly on married life, with a secondary school-days storyline. Their romance is a case of two amateurs fumbling through love, and neither lead is perfect!]

[Theme: Finding love in the little things]