Time's Gift to the Creek

[True marriage before love + both each other’s first + nine-year age gap + slow-burn romance]

Gentle, resilient Jiangnan beauty x composed, distinguished power player of the capital circle

The Shang and Lin families were about to unite through marriage when the Lin family’s eldest daughter suddenly disappeared.

Lin Xi, who worked in Jingzhou, inexplicably ended up marrying the head of the Shang family, a man she’d only met twice.

She’d thought a man like him would never be willing to marry her.

Three months into their marriage, Lin Xi still hadn’t seen Shang Shixu again, leaving her with the strange feeling she wasn’t married at all.

Then, while her ex-boyfriend was calling to pester her, Shang Shixu suddenly came back.

“Are you reluctant to let him go?”

A steady male voice broke the silence.

He didn’t seem to care about Lin Xi’s explanation, offering only a cool warning.

“Mm… Remember your place…”

Lin Xi felt a weight in her chest. She felt less like his wife and more like a criminal being interrogated.

Thankfully, she didn’t expect some elusive romance. As long as they treated each other with respect, that was enough.

Shang Shixu was cool, distinguished, and indifferent to women. At last, at thirty-one, he married as was expected of him.

From the first moment he saw Lin Xi, he felt she was different.

Everyone was surprised that he would marry the overlooked second daughter of the Lin family. Even he didn’t understand why he’d gone to such lengths to bring her home.

After they married, she feared and respected him!

Yet with each surprise she brought him and every radiant smile, he sank deeper, wanting more and more.

“Xiaoxi, I don’t just want you… I want all your love too…”

Lin Xi had learned from childhood to win people over, all for the sake of her mother’s love.

But later, it was the man she should have called “brother-in-law” who taught her what a home was, and what true “love” meant!