I Just Married My Best Friend’s Brother, and He Won’t Stop Clinging to Me

Marriage first, love later / a gentle, slow-burn sweet romance

After Cen Baoling caught her boyfriend cheating, she quickly pulled herself together, announced their broken engagement on social media, and asked her friends to send her a list of replacement candidates…

Moments later, her best friend messaged to say she had an older brother who was a real stickler for the rules.

Broad-shouldered and long-legged, cold and indifferent, and uninterested in women, he wore a government-style jacket year-round.

Her best friend urged her to snatch him up. Once they were married, she could do whatever she wanted with her in-laws.

Cen Baoling was thrilled. This sister-in-law was a keeper: if you had a problem, she really came through.

She arranged to meet her best friend's older brother online.

He showed up with his ID card, riding an electric scooter.

“I heard you're looking for someone to marry. Which comes first, the wedding night or getting the marriage license?”

Her ex cornered Cen Baoling, furious because he thought she loved him too much to ever love anyone else.

Cen Baoling was put on the spot. Half-reluctantly, she took out her ID, and they got married at a temporary marriage registration counter inside the nightclub where they were.

The next morning, she discovered that the groom from the night before wasn't her best friend's older brother after all.

When the terrible news reached her best friend, who was on a business trip overseas, she cried with rage and swore she'd give the bastard who stole her sister-in-law a proper beating as soon as she got back.

But when she heard the groom's name, she ran away in fright.

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After their wedding night, Duan Baiting updated his status and posted a picture of his lovely wife's blurry sleeping face: “Married young. Who wouldn't love a sweet, soft wife?”

After their wedding night, they went back to their separate lives. But at work, Cen Baoling couldn't shake the feeling that the Chinese representative at that day's international diplomatic event looked awfully familiar…