[A gentle, vivacious, flirtatious young woman × an icy, sharp-tongued, secretly passionate powerhouse]
[Marriage first, love later, in secret + face-slapping the scum + a slow-burn, sweet and doting daily life + seven-year age gap]
Backstage at an awards ceremony, Song Rulan witnessed her boyfriend and younger sister betray her.
At the celebration banquet, they teamed up to accuse her of plagiarism and ruin her reputation.
On a stormy night, after losing everything, she stumbled into the domain of the fashion world's devilish tyrant.
Gu Yechen picked up her rain-soaked designs and sneered. "You call something dragged out of the mud a design?"
She fell for his devastatingly handsome face at first sight, never expecting him to have such a vicious tongue.
As she turned to leave, she heard him say, "Want revenge? Let's see if you've got the backbone for it."
Later, her brother-in-law-to-be confessed his feelings, her ex begged to get back together, and her childhood friend appeared out of nowhere, stirring up trouble.
He cornered her against the wall, eyes red as he said, "Lanlan, have you forgotten you have another title? Mrs. Gu."
She thought theirs was a marriage of convenience and blinked up at him with watery eyes. "How long do you expect me to keep pretending?"
He lowered his head, his gaze full of tenderness. "How about for the rest of our lives?"
From the heroine's perspective: a mutually beneficial arrangement.
From the hero's perspective: he'd been plotting this for a long time.
