[Marriage first, love later + devoted to each other + slow-burn, sweet romance]
Her fiance refuses to marry her for the sake of his beloved first love, even threatening to die. The two families discuss it late into the night and decide to switch the groom without calling off the engagement.
Overnight, her uncle becomes her husband.
He is the head of one of the most powerful wealthy families in the capital. They say he's an ascetic workaholic, stern and old-fashioned, the grim reaper of the business world.
He leaves on a business trip abroad on their wedding night.
Her best friend feels that she's been wronged and bluntly tells her to get a divorce and remarry.
Jian Yi, however, thinks it's perfect. A husband from an old-money family who travels for work all the time: the ideal marriage.
In their social circle, it makes no difference who you marry. They're all marriages in name only, putting on an act in public and staying out of each other's way.
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Six months into their marriage, drunk, she messages him: "Let's get divorced!"
He is overseas, but appears by her bed in the middle of the night. His dark eyes fix on her as he grabs her wrist and says, "Divorce? I cut off both my hands, so I can't sign."
She is too shocked to react before he crushes his lips against hers. Anger and obsessive possessiveness intertwine, leaving her unable to breathe.
Jian Yi: "?"
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An eight-year age gap, love at first sight, and an addiction to her scent.
(Bright and clear-headed heroine x stern, fatherly man)
