Miss Xu, Your Fiancé Has Arrived

[Marriage before love | Age gap | Doting, fatherly husband] Xu Qiaoyi learns as soon as she comes of age that she’s engaged. Unwilling to walk straight into marriage, no matter how excellent her parents say the man is, she takes the initiative and approaches him to call off the engagement. But his gaze is so intimidating that, under pressure, she changes her request to postponing the wedding. He agrees, and Xu Qiaoyi breathes a sigh of relief. It’s only delayed by six years, but by then he’ll be nearly thirty. Surely he’ll find someone else to marry in the meantime, and their engagement will be over for good. Before long, the idea that their engagement has been canceled settles into her mind. Then, six years later, he suddenly appears before her as her fiancé. Only then does she realize he has kept their agreement all along. At first, Chen Qiaonan doesn’t feel much of anything for his fiancée in name only. He just knows their families arranged the marriage when they were children. He has no desire to resist, and if she’s willing, he doesn’t mind getting married. That year, she comes to see him. He knows she’s young, but it’s only when her youthful face appears before him that he truly feels the age difference between them for the first time. When she says she doesn’t want to marry so soon, he feels little. Or rather, if she wanted to call off the engagement, he would agree to it. But she doesn’t ask to end it. She only wants to put it off for a few years, and he naturally has no objection. As the days pass, the Chen and Xu families keep exchanging photos of the two of them. Day by day, the girl in the pictures grows more radiant and beautiful. At some point, he begins paying attention to her without even realizing it, and a quiet sense of anticipation takes root in his heart.