Name: Since Things Have Come to This, Let's Get Married
Author: The Moon Follows the Boat

Synopsis

Li Wanzi got involved with her best friend's newly reunited older brother, the one with the icy demeanor.

[Strangers in public, intimately familiar in private + powerful man lowering his head + older man/younger woman + sex first, marriage then love + irresistible physical attraction + his secret crush + long-laid plans + old flame reignited + flirtatious push and pull + six-year age gap]

● Glamorous, alluring, rebellious beauty in a cheongsam × abstinent, possessive, fatherly Daddy

Everyone in the capital's elite circles knew that Shang Li, head of the Shang family, was an untouchable flower atop a distant peak.

Abstinent and refined, he kept women at arm's length.

That is, until the Li family teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, forcing Li Wanzi to pretend to agree to marry the second son of the Shang family.

On a rainy night, soaked to the skin, she stood on the street when a black umbrella suddenly appeared over her head.

Beneath it, Shang Li, who had never given a woman a second glance, gazed at her with dark eyes. “Marry my younger brother, and you'll only be the second young madam of the Shang family.”

“Marry me, and I'll give you the entire capital.”

“...Since things have come to this, let's get married first, Mr. Shang.”

Li Wanzi thought it was just a marriage of convenience, kept secret from the world.

In public, he was the cool, distant Mr. Shang.

In private, he cornered her in a secluded spot and kissed her deeply, his hand sliding to the slit of her cheongsam. His voice was husky. “This one's too short. You can only wear it for me at home.”

She thought it was just a passing whim of his, and was always ready to walk away.

Until she found the locked diary in his study.

The latest page was written in fierce, frenzied script.

“Today Zhizhi wore a dark green cheongsam. I wanted to kiss the mole on her neck, wanted to hear her cry and call me Big Brother. I think I'm beyond saving.”

Later, the whole capital witnessed their spectacular wedding.

The man who had once seemed utterly beyond reach gazed at her with the devotion of a believer.

“My wife, I bow only to you.”

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