[Marriage first, love later + eight-year age gap + long-planned pursuit + simmering tension + both leads are virgins + happy ending]
Gentle, reserved genius painter x steady, mature, fatherly tycoon
On the day Meng Wantang returned to China, she drank herself into a stupor at a bar and was found by Jiang Yihan.
Under the influence of alcohol and hormones, they spent a passionate night together.
The next morning, Meng Wantang glanced at the note the man had left and scoffed. “We’re adults. It was just a fling, so why did I have to catch feelings?”
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To avoid the arranged marriage her family had planned for her, Meng Wantang agreed to marry the man she’d had a one-night stand with.
With her freshly issued marriage certificate in hand, she planned to cause a scene at the “blind date banquet.”
But she never expected the man she had just married to be there too.
“What are you doing here?”
“I’m here for a blind date.”
Her best friend stared in shock. “Wantang, the guy you’re supposed to meet... he isn’t my uncle, is he?”
Well, that wasn’t all!
He was the man from her one-night stand, the blind date, and the other half of the marriage certificate that hadn’t even had time to warm up in her hands.
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For their mutual benefit, the two reached an agreement about their marriage.
But then, one day three years later, she appeared barefoot and red-eyed in Jiang Yihan’s study.
“Why are all the paintings I’ve ever done, from childhood to now, in your room?”
The man picked up her slippers and slowly helped her put them on.
“Mrs. Jiang, after all this time, do you still not understand how I feel?”
“But... but our three-year agreement is about to expire...”
Some word of hers struck a nerve. The man, who had been so gentle and refined just moments ago, suddenly went mad and pinned her against his desk, kissing her passionately.
“Mrs. Jiang, the word ‘divorce’ doesn’t exist in my dictionary!”
