“I’m Gu Zhaozhao, the spoiled little tyrant of the Gu Group, and I’ve always hated being told what to do.
So when my dad said, ‘You have to marry Shen Yu’an,’ I slammed the table and declared, ‘Unless he can make me call him “hubby” of my own free will, I’m running away from this wedding!’
Then, on the first day I met Shen Yu’an, he was gaming backstage at the wedding. On the second day, at the post-wedding family banquet, he said, ‘I’ll finish the company paperwork in half an hour. Then we can go get hot pot.’ On the third day, I tried to make him jealous by wearing a revealing dress, but he crouched in the walk-in closet and pulled out a floral dress instead. ‘This one will make your skin look brighter. I saw you staring at it in the shop window for three minutes last time.’
I puffed out my cheeks. ‘Can’t you act like a CEO for once?’
He looked up from peeling shrimp. ‘Why can’t a CEO play video games? Why can’t he love braised pork?’ He paused, then added, ‘Besides…’ He pointed his chopsticks at the little mountain of shrimp meat in my bowl. ‘If I acted too serious, how would I ever persuade Miss Gu to stay?’
Only later did I understand.
It wasn’t that he had no temper. He just couldn’t be bothered to argue with me. It wasn’t that he had no ambition. He simply wanted to spend all his time thinking about me.
Now my dad is always sighing. ‘Zhaozhao, how did you end up being the one chasing Shen Yu’an?’
I smiled as I bit into the braised pork he’d made. ‘Dad, you wouldn’t understand. Taming a lazy fish is way more fun than taming a wolf, especially when that lazy fish has secretly…’
