[Radiant, confident little sunshine ✖ mature, steady, slow-to-catch-on man; marriage first, love later; eight-year age gap; a little groveling, mostly sweet with a touch of angst]
Jiang Yixun knew from childhood that he had a fiancée. She just wasn’t born until he was eight.
They grew up together. When he reached puberty, she was still the little girl whose smile showed two gaps between her teeth.
Deep down, he felt he could never make a move on the girl he had grown up with. Then their families fell out, and the two of them didn’t speak for eight years.
He was about to start college, while his fiancée was still in elementary school. Wouldn’t that make him a criminal?
Eight years later, he assumed the girl had already fallen for someone else. But because his mother was ill, he practically marketed himself like a product as he begged her to marry him.
After they got married, Wen Yiyuan asked him, “How long do you plan to keep treating me like your little sister?”
He answered very seriously, “You’re so much younger than me. I can treat you like my little sister forever.”
Wen Yiyuan asked again, “Don’t you need me to fulfill my wifely duties?”
He shook his head. “No.”
So Wen Yiyuan decided they would be siblings for the rest of their lives.
Until, later on, more and more men started pursuing Wen Yiyuan.
He asked Wen Yiyuan to try being husband and wife with him, so they could build up their feelings as a married couple together.
But in public, she still called him “big brother.” From then on, while other men begged their wives to call them that, hearing it made him want to die.
That day, he drove Wen Yiyuan absolutely crazy.
They were by the window.
Wen Yiyuan asked him with red-rimmed eyes, “Brother Xun, didn’t you say you didn’t need married life?”
He sighed, realizing he’d never live this down. “I’m a dog. That was just a dog barking. I’m begging my wife to discipline me.”
