Tenderness Within the Rules

Name: Tenderness Within the Rules
Author: Is the Book Sweet?

规则之下的温柔

by Is the Book Sweet? (书甜不甜)

Status: Completed
Length: 100k Words
Genre: Modern Romance
Subgenre: Billionaire CEO
Updated: 10mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

A sudden family crisis forces Lin Wei, a free-spirited genius illustrator, to marry Gu Chengyu, a business magnate who controls half the city’s economy. It’s a marriage of pure money and power, sealed with a cold, unfeeling contract.

On their wedding night, she receives not vows, but a thick handbook of household rules. The rules cover everything, from her behavior and speech to her daily schedule, and tightly constrain her every freedom. Her husband in name only, Gu Chengyu, is the rules personified: handsome and wealthy, but also cold and strict, like an immovable iceberg. He “punishes” her every “transgression” in the harshest way.

Lin Wei believes she’ll spend the rest of her life in the shadow of those rules, a canary with clipped wings. Yet behind each seemingly merciless “punishment,” she catches glimpses of another side of him beneath his icy facade: the proposal he annotates for her at his desk late at night, the ointment for her bruises quietly delivered to her door, the discreet protection he offers in times of crisis…

It turns out the deepest tenderness lies beneath the strictest rules. Beneath the coldest iceberg, the hottest lava is surging.

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