[Marriage first, love later + eight-year age gap + secret crush + powerful man lowers his head + both pure]
The capital’s top-tier star was universally regarded as the aloof, celibate ideal of perfection. At thirty, his romantic history was as blank as a sheet of paper, and no one dared mention women in front of him.
Until one day, he overheard his younger sister complaining: “Ye Nannan’s mother has gone crazy! She’s forcing her to go on a blind date with a forty-year-old, bald, fat man with a belly full of blubber!”
That very night, thanks to an unexpected turn of events, the powerful man whisked her off to register their marriage.
One day after the wedding, he gripped her waist, his gaze dark enough to drip with desire. “I heard you’ve been going around telling people… that I can’t perform?”
Later, everyone discovered that the once-celibate big shot had learned to use threats and bribes to get cuddles, fake an illness and act coy to get hugs, and even ask for sex with absolute confidence.
A little scene: Many years later, Ye Nannan asked her best friend, “Why don’t you and your older brother have the same surname?”
Her friend casually waved a snack in her hand. “Oh, my grandma was superstitious! She got my big brother’s fortune told, and they said he had to be named ‘Xuan Yi’ to find a wife!”
