[Scheming, fatherly lawyer × sweet, gentle heiress with a bitter streak] (Both leads are each other’s first and only love | Marriage before love | Substitute bride | Possessive hero | Happy ending)
Forced into a family-arranged marriage, Jiang Chuyi takes her cousin’s place and marries Cheng Xingzhou, who is six years older.
She has a people-pleasing personality, but Cheng Xingzhou dotes on her relentlessly!
· When a possessive, unstable man harasses her, he shields her in his arms. “Have I been spoiling you too much lately? You’d really leave me over something this trivial?”
· When her comic is plagiarized, the case lands in his hands. He chuckles. “Sweetheart, tell me, how did you get these drawings past the censors?”
· She runs away from home, but the man who held an umbrella over her when she was eight pulls her into his arms. “Don’t be scared. Your husband’s here. Leave everything to me.”
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Her veil falls in a little grove. “A wedding to make up for the one you missed, just like the one in your drawings…”
“She’s a little hedgehog. She only dares show her belly when I hold her gently.”
For readers following along: nonstop sweetness + secret identities revealed + an older husband who keeps his wife firmly in line + the heroine’s secret crush comes true!
