An Arranged Marriage, a Broken Engagement? Why Not Marry Your Uncle?

Synopsis

[Long-planned romance + marriage first, love later + slow-burn romance + eight-year age gap + healing + sweet pampering] [Scheming, secretly passionate husband who cries easily x bookish, aloof beauty of a wife]

In everyone else's eyes, she's a bookish beauty. To her arranged-marriage match, though, she's an old-fashioned, boring bookworm. On the eve of the wedding, he ends up in bed with her stepsister. Having gotten a taste for it, he calls off the engagement: “I'm not marrying that bookworm!”

Madam Shen is so furious she falls ill. “Ranran is the granddaughter of my closest friend, a descendant of a hero. How could she compare to a seductress?”

Just then, that man returns from abroad and offers a solution: “Since it's an arranged marriage, if he won't marry her, I will.”

He Yuiming goes to great lengths to win his beauty's heart, but spends every day anxious and suspicious, convinced he's a substitute for his nephew. He puts on a cold face while washing her underwear, and when he's left unsatisfied, he can only hide under the covers and cry in secret.

At first, Meng Shuran notices that he's a neat freak who loves to bathe, sometimes several times a day. She treads carefully, doing her best not to offend him.

But after that incident, he stops bathing so much. It turns out he isn't even a little bit of a neat freak, and he really loves sex.

Besides, you can't hit him, scold him, or even act cold toward him, or he'll start crying.

Who gets it? A domineering CEO turns into a clingy little crybaby, always curled up in his wife's arms, begging for affection?

Actually, the scheming CEO is pretty passionate in private, too. He always gets his girl all flushed and breathless beneath him, her voice soft and sweet: “Darling, don't just... mm... kiss me. Hold Ranran, too.” She drives him wild with desire. “Tsk, she's not some stiff, boring bookworm at all. She's a bewitching little vixen who'll be the death of me.”