She Forgot to Lock the Door on Her Wedding Night, and a Beijing Tycoon Fell for Her

True love, both leads are each other’s first and only, sweet romance, age gap, powerful man who bows to love

Clear-headed, gentle cultural relic restorer × dignified and proper fatherly boss by day, passionate and domineering boss by night

“Now let’s discuss our marital duties.” On their first meeting after the wedding, Qi Yanzheng put marital duties on the agenda.

“All right.” Wen Lan lowered her head, her expression calm.

Their families had arranged a marriage, but the intended bride ran away, so Wen Lan married her prospective brother-in-law instead.

Rumors had it that the heir apparent, Qi Yanzheng, was stiff and boring, and treated work like his wife.

As a fellow workaholic, Wen Lan thought that sounded fine. Her husband was rich but had no free time, and his needs weren’t great.

She could focus on her career without spending energy on their relationship, and she wouldn’t have to have children. They’d simply fulfill their marital duties as agreed.

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After the wedding, Wen Lan kept to her duties as a wife and treated her husband with respect. She worked hard to maintain the outward harmony expected of a marriage of convenience.

She thought that was what Qi Yanzheng wanted, too, and that their marriage of physical intimacy without emotional attachment would go on forever.

But one day, Qi Yanzheng, the refined and abstinent man outsiders admired, cornered her in the bathroom and, panting, asked, “Don’t you like me even a little?”

Qi Yanzheng had married Wen Lan not only to protect the family’s reputation, as outsiders assumed, but also because of a little secret he’d kept buried in his heart.

He didn’t want her to be polite and distant, and he didn’t want them to be husband and wife only in bed.

He had always wanted more than her body. He wanted her body and her heart, her everything.