Familiar Foam

[Bookish orphan × powerful man from Beijing’s elite circles | secret marriage | love after marriage | age-gap romance] The year her parents died unexpectedly, Wen Ni was left with only her grandfather. As he grew older, she became the one thing he couldn’t stop worrying about. That was when Shen Tinghuai, head of the Shen family, showed up with a marriage promise their grandfathers had made. Seated before her in a tailored suit, his body radiated heat and his voice was low and hypnotic. “Miss Wen, I accept the marriage our grandfathers arranged.” Thus began a secret marriage in which each got what they needed. She wanted to put her grandfather at ease. He wanted the stability of a family alliance. By day, she was the aloof campus beauty at the university, and he was a decisive CEO. They acted like strangers. At night, he would pin her against the floor-to-ceiling window, his breath hot against her skin. “Mrs. Shen, how long are you going to keep pretending we don’t know each other?” She thought their marriage was nothing more than a transaction. But when she worked late into the night revising her thesis, a warm body would suddenly press against her from behind. When her classmates mocked her for being “an orphan with no one to rely on,” he would appear with a cold expression and say, word by word, “No one gets to criticize my wife, Shen Tinghuai’s wife.” One day after they married, Wen Ni stared absently at the diamond ring on her left ring finger. “Shen Tinghuai, why did you choose me?” He set his papers aside and pulled her into his arms, his fingertips brushing her earlobe. “Because you caught my eye the first time we met.” “Later…” He chuckled. “I found out you were even sweeter than I’d imagined.” Wen Ni blushed and threw herself into his arms. “You’re so shameless…”