[Marriage first, love later + devoted love + older man + gentle + respectful + secret crush + calculating and reserved + both each other's first]
Li Dai has an older friend who persuades her to elope and marry the youngest son of the Ying family.
On impulse, she rushes straight to the civil affairs bureau to “snatch a bargain.”
The good news: they got their marriage license.
The strange news: she married the wrong man.
The wild news: they slept together, and she made the first move.
He is Ying Lichen, the head of the Ying family, a man even his own mother fears. Rumor paints him as stiff, violent, and celibate.
After they marry, he completely overturns every rumor.
When she stays up all night designing dresses, he doesn't disturb her. He quietly waits outside her office all night. When her coworkers give her a hard time, he stands behind her and protects her at any cost.
But this “gentle mogul” turns into a jealous maniac in an instant.
“If your husband and your best friend fell into the water, who would you save?”
“If I were standing with another man, who would you look at first?”
Kissed dizzy, Li Dai can only blush and beg him to stop.
This grown man has very high standards for his sex life and keeps saying it's “inconvenient.”
This scheming CEO has nothing but dirty thoughts on his mind all day:
“Want to kiss you.”
“Shall we do it?”
“I learned something new. It's very thorough. Come on, let's try it.”
Li Dai's head hurts. Everything hurts.
Wasn't he supposed to be stiff and uninterested in women?
Later, he admits, “How else could I tempt you if I didn't hold back?”
Then one day, she finds an iron box he has kept hidden away, filled with her things.
Beneath his immaculate suits, he is a wild, roguish tycoon, radiating the menace and elegance of a man in power. But with her, he turns every sharp edge into tenderness.
What began as a mix-up over whom she was supposed to marry eventually proves to be the result of his long-planned secret crush, years in the making.
