[Marriage First, Love Later ✖️ Secret Crush Comes True ✖️ Age Gap ✖️ Mutually Devoted ✖️ Coercive Possession] On their wedding night, Tang Sichun is drunk and mistakes her arranged-marriage husband for a male escort from a club. She teasingly beckons with a fingertip: "You're a handsome one. Come here!"
Behind his gold-rimmed glasses, Jing Zhao's gaze is dark and inscrutable.
He waited for her to grow up and waited for her to marry him, but he never got her to look at him properly.
If pretending to be gentle won't work, then he might as well tear off the mask completely.
"A male escort?" He leans down, trapping her in the narrow space, his voice dangerous. "Mrs. Jing, tonight I'll make sure you remember who your husband is."
He thinks this is a game of coercive possession that he controls, luring her deeper with every carefully laid step.
But when she offers herself to him of her own accord because her first love has returned to the country, he loses all reason.
It turns out that in her eyes, his ten years of secret love amount to nothing more than a cold transaction.
Later, Tang Sichun happens to open a locked drawer in his study.
Inside is a thick stack of photographs, all of her, from the age of thirteen to the present.
On the title page, the man's fierce handwriting lays bare his obsession:
"I carefully planned every step and took you by force. It wasn't for a title."
"What I want is for you to fall for me willingly."
