The Longer the Marriage, the Sweeter the Love

Marriage First, Love Later | Sharp-Tongued, Funny, and Thoughtful | A Tense Push and Pull | Both Pure

On the eve of signing the marriage papers, Lu Jin was told at the last minute that her arranged-marriage partner had changed.

Instead of the refined and elegant eldest son of the He family, she was to marry He Siting, the family's second son, rumored to be arrogant, unruly, and fickle.

The Lu family was marrying up as it was, and she had no choice. She simply said, “Fine by me.”

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But by the time the news reached He Siting, it had turned into her “settling for second best.”

That ignited the man's damnable competitive streak!

Later, He Siting went on their honeymoon alone. It became a knot in his heart that he could never untie.

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After they married, Lu Jin kept her distance and only contacted him when absolutely necessary.

Until one day, the man cornered her against a wall and said earnestly, “My phone has a worldwide warranty! Full 5G signal! It isn't broken! Can't you contact me first for once?”

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He Siting had never taken the marriage seriously. But the instant he saw Lu Jin's photo, he found himself giving in despite himself:

He'd gone from “I won't marry her” to “I won't marry her... Are you going to keep nagging me forever?”

He was sharp-tongued and awkward, but he remembered what she liked and brewed her a special flower tea.

Lu Jin, meanwhile, never felt secure, convinced that their marriage was doomed to end sooner or later.

Later, she brought out the divorce papers, signed them, and handed them to him.

He Siting's face turned as white as the paper clenched in his fist. In a panic, all he could manage was a clumsy threat: “I'm the only person in the world who can make your favorite flower tea!”

“I can give it up.”

The next moment, the usually confident man turned red-eyed and gripped her wrist tightly, his voice hoarse and broken:

“But I can't give you up...”