One-on-one, mutual firsts | Seven-year age gap | Trial marriage
Male lead: Yi Jian, 27, head of the Yi family. Cold and taciturn, keeping strangers at a distance, he has spent twenty-seven years mastering self-restraint and proper conduct. All it takes to make him break the rules is her.
Female lead: Zhong Mo, 20, a recent graduate just starting out in her career. She never talks about what her family does, and she dresses and lives modestly. Beautiful without knowing it. She moves into Yi Garden intending to call off her engagement. Whether she can pull it off is something she'll have to find out for herself.
Everyone in Linzhou says the head of the Yi family is cold and taciturn, with not a single rumor of romance in twenty-seven years.
He even has his assistant relay every word to his fiancée, one sentence at a time.
Just after graduating, Zhong Mo is pushed by her family into a trial marriage with him. She's already done her research: rumors say this aloof, unattainable man has always been indifferent to women.
Perfect.
All she needs is a legitimate reason to break off the engagement: move into Yi Garden, catch him in the act, and leave with her dignity intact.
Who could have guessed that on the very first night of their trial marriage, the man who couldn't even be bothered to look her in the eye would reach over and switch off the light?
“Who said I'm a block of wood?”
The next morning, she clung to the doorknob as she came downstairs, finally realizing just how wrong the rumors had been...
A friend asked him why he didn't just get married instead of having a trial marriage.
He gave a five-word answer: “Because there was no need.”
It wasn't until Zhong Mo moved into Yi Garden that he understood:
Some things are “unnecessary” only because he hadn't met her yet.
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