Only After Breaking Off the Engagement Did I Learn I Was the Big Shot's First Love

[Female lead's perspective: marriage first, love later + male lead has been scheming for a long time + second male lead tries to win her back but fails + both leads are romantically inexperienced + face-slapping and punishing scumbags + destined love + first love]

On her birthday, Chi Huan received a “surprise” from her fiancé: a bed photo of him with his first love.

[Don't blame me. You're just so boring.]

[She's much more fun in bed.]

Chi Huan was so furious she fainted by the roadside, while her fiancé was busy taking care of his first love at the hospital.

After a high fever burned the nonsense out of her head, Chi Huan decisively called off the engagement.

Her fiancé, Pei Qi'an, didn't care in the least. “We've already sent out the engagement invitations. She's timid and proud, and her family is full of wolves and tigers. She's just saying it. Does she really dare to call off the engagement? How would she survive without me?”

Everyone thought Chi Huan was just throwing a tantrum. Nobody believed she'd really end the engagement. Surely she'd soon come crawling back, begging Pei Qi'an to love her.

It wasn't until they learned she'd sent Pei Qi'an to prison and secretly registered her marriage with a powerful figure from Beijing's elite circles that their jaws hit the floor!

Later...

The scumbag and his lover were stuck together, turning the household upside down.

Pei Qi'an was consumed with regret as he remembered how good Chi Huan had been to him.

Chi Huan, now Mrs. Li, was swept into the arms of her jealous, powerful husband, who coaxed and pampered her to the heavens. Their love was passionate and intoxicating.