Gentle, Quiet Joy

Name: Gentle, Quiet Joy
Author: Yun Xiyu

温衍清欢

by Yun Xiyu (云息语)

Status: Completed
Length: 266k Words
Genre: Modern Romance
Subgenre: Billionaire CEO
Updated: 4mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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[Business marriage | Marriage first, love later | Pretending turns real | Identity reveal warning | Slow burn]

Gentle, flirtatious interior designer vs. cold, old-fashioned older CEO

The boldest thing Shen Qingyue ever did was agree to an arranged marriage on the day they met for their matchmaking date.

Her match was Lu Zeyan, the heir to a wealthy family and the youngest person in Haishi’s business circles to hold real power.

Everyone in their circle said he was cold, restrained, and rigorously self-disciplined, a workaholic who didn’t care about anything else.

Shen Qingyue thought that was perfect. She didn’t need love, either.

They reached an agreement: a marriage of convenience, with each getting what they wanted.

She prepared herself for a marriage in name only, but then she saw the faint scar on his arm and was instantly swept back to the midsummer when she was sixteen.

From then on, the marriage that had begun as a matter of mutual benefit became her long-planned attempt to get close to him.

Only later did she learn that the sketch she’d drawn was on his desk.

His phone held every photo she’d ever sent him.

There was only one account on his blog’s following list.

In the cool night breeze by Victoria Harbour, he held her hand, his thumb brushing the scar he’d gotten for her.

“Ten years ago, I told you to run. Will you run now?”

Her eyes reddened, and her voice trembled.

“I won’t run anymore.”

That night, in the quiet twilight, he whispered in her ear:

“Mrs. Lu, I’d like to request that we stop sleeping in separate rooms.”

It turned out she wasn’t the only one who’d made their pretend marriage real.

After all their twists and turns, he followed her light, and at last she came to his side.

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