The Top Lawyer’s Contractual Darling

(Seven-year age gap + marriage before love + fiercely protective husband + doting, fatherly husband + workplace comeback)

Wen Nian, marry me. I'll make everyone who's ever bullied you get on their knees and apologize.

When Gu Chenzhou, the legal world's "Living King of Hell," slid a prenuptial agreement across the table to her, Wen Nian finally understood what it meant to be caught between a rock and a hard place.

Seven years ago, he was the substitute professor who made her cry by teaching her the Civil Code. Seven years later, he was a top law firm partner worth hundreds of millions. They ran into each other at an unexpected blind date. His sharp-tongued way of driving off her date made her laugh until she cried, but she never expected to become his contract wife soon after.

Your rent is covered. You can live in any of my properties.

Workplace bullying? They'll have a court summons tomorrow.

Pressuring us to marry and have kids? Mrs. Gu, we can take our time deciding how many children you want.

Wen Nian thought their marriage was just a mutually beneficial arrangement, until

He stayed up with her until dawn, sorting case files so she could sleep an extra half hour;

When she was treated unfairly, he bought the entire office building so she could be the boss's wife;

When her relatives mocked her, he showed off his seven-figure savings in front of everyone. "Every penny my wife spends is money I've begged her to take."

Gu Chenzhou, what happened to our contract marriage?

Baby, I signed a lifelong contract.

When the once cold and abstinent Professor Gu started holding her by the waist and calling her "baby," Wen Nian finally understood:

Some traps, once you fall into them, you...