Marriage before love, both leads are devoted to each other, a guiding lover, older man
[Quiet beagle homebody vs. scheming fox tycoon]
Cheng Zhiyi impulsively married a bankrupt CEO.
Each got what they wanted.
He helped her move on from her unrequited love and avoid the plot.
She gave him money so he could escape an arranged marriage.
Clause One of the Contract: We will not interfere in each other’s private lives. We’ll only pretend to be a couple when necessary.
When they first got married,
he was a perfect gentleman, elegant and charming.
She was quiet and reserved, poised and graceful.
When someone proposed to her, he stayed out of it. When he went on a blind date, she didn’t ask questions.
But before long, they discovered that
her quiet nature was fake, while her oddball behavior was very real.
His gentlemanly manner was just a facade. Beneath it, he was domineering.
Everyone in A City’s high society mocked her for marrying a down-and-out man.
Everyone among the capital’s elite gossiped that he’d married an orphan.
But no one knew that on that day of torrential rain, when Lu Shanglin knelt in the downpour to bring her an umbrella, he held her by the waist and stroked her lips again and again. “Zhiyi, you don’t love him. Could you love me instead?”
She avoided his gaze and turned away.
But the next day, the headline “Hong Kong Island Princess and Capital Tycoon Join in an Arranged Marriage” appeared with a photo of the two of them
