[Composed, detail-oriented heir of an established family vs. pragmatic heiress returned home]
[Careful seduction + five-year age gap + marriage first, love later]
Sang Yu, the cherished eldest daughter of the Sang family, disappeared when she was little, leaving her parents devastated. Just then, the Sang company fell into crisis, and they had no choice but to seek help from their old family friends, the Zhou family. The Zhous made a demand in return.
“If the Sang family’s daughter is found one day, she will marry the Zhou family’s son and unite our families. If she is never found, then in ten years, the Sang family will give the Zhou family forty percent of its shares.”
Just as everyone assumed the eldest Sang daughter would never return and the Sang family would have to hand over its shares, a breathtakingly beautiful young woman appeared in the Sang family courtyard, leisurely swinging on a swing.
Sang Yu chose to marry for reasons other than love: to protect the Sang family business and fulfill her own private agenda.
She knew that sincere feelings could change in an instant, so she wanted no part of unpredictable love.
She wanted security and stability, a smooth path to her future, a better life for her adoptive parents, and the chance to climb higher knowing someone would catch her if she fell.
So she plotted carefully, calculating every move.
But for all her scheming, she never realized that Zhou Beim ing had fallen for her long ago, nor did she expect to fall in love with him herself.
A marriage of convenience, but one that refused to follow the usual script.
He cared for her in every way and spoiled her endlessly, until Sang Yu found herself falling for him too.
“Little Sang Yu, at your first birthday party, you grabbed my cufflink in one go. It was almost as if you’d already decided you were going to cling to me.”
“So I was already pulling that kind of stunt when I was that little? Then you’ll have to take responsibility for me for the rest of your life.”
The male protagonist is the kind of person who is silent and detail-oriented. The female protagonist also has her own thoughts. The writing is very good. The sourness and joy of secret love are all written out. Looks good!