[Male lead plays the pig to eat the tiger, domineering and calculating; soft and adorable female lead; marriage first, love later + ten-year age gap + sweet romance + angst before sweetness]
Lin Ruan Tang never imagined that a rainy day would change her life. Her father suffered a sudden heart attack and needed 200,000 yuan for surgery. Her landlord had thrown her out, and she had nowhere to turn for money. Just then, Shen Yuzhou, wearing a cotton-linen shirt and black-rimmed glasses, handed her an umbrella and proposed a “contract marriage”: he would pay the medical bills and provide her with a place to live, while she would help him fend off pressure to marry.
She thought she’d married a mild-mannered community librarian. She had no idea that this man who “couldn’t even fix a lightbulb” was actually the head of the business empire that was the Shen Group. While they lived together, he brought home her favorite strawberry cake every day, “clumsily” learned to cook, secretly helped her recover her stolen illustration designs, and cleared away the rumors damaging her career. She gradually fell for him, only to discover a Shen Group executive pass in a drawer and see him dressed to the nines in a photo from the company’s annual gala.
After the shock of learning who he was, she looked at him as he said with reddened eyes, “From the day I met you, the contract became a matter of the heart.” Only then did she understand that all his disguises had been for her sake. He stood with her on the roof of the Shen Group building to announce their marriage, set up an illustration studio for her, and paved a seaside proposal path with roses. She grew from a soft, timid little rabbit into a partner who could stand by his side, recording their moments together with her paintbrush.
From a contract on a rainy day to a family of three embracing on New Year’s Eve, Shen Yuzhou used the maturity that came with their ten-year age gap and his attentive devotion to turn the rest of Lin Ruan Tang’s life into the sweetest candy.
