A Fiery Wedding Night

[Marriage before love + age gap + healing and redemption + slow-burn romance]

Delicate yet resilient heroine VS mature, steady, guiding older man

The Zhou family of Haishi is a prominent clan, with a vast business empire spanning finance, real estate, entertainment, and more. Everywhere you look, the name Zhou is there.

The head of the Zhou family, Zhou Zhengyu, has always been composed and stern, indifferent to romance and devoted only to his work. Everyone says his marriage is just a formality, and that he’ll divorce her as soon as he gets bored.

Yet after marriage, the aloof, celibate Mr. Zhou transforms into a doting husband, completely lost in a marriage that makes him feel as if he’s living in a dream.

No one knows that he fell deeply in love with her from the moment they first met.

He Shuyan has never been loved by her parents. She grew up struggling like a wild weed, and only managed to graduate after a mysterious benefactor paid her way through all four years of university.

Later, desperate to escape the pressure of her family, she comes alone to Haishi and unexpectedly marries Zhou Zhengyu, her best friend’s older brother.

Rumor has it that he’s an aloof, dignified man who’s difficult to get along with. He Shuyan assumes he only married her to appease his family.

Until one day, he catches her meeting her ex-boyfriend in secret. His eyes burn darkly, and his voice trembles with a hoarse intensity. “Wife, I’m your legal husband.”

From then on, at night she can’t keep up with his boundless energy and begs him for mercy, her eyes reddening. The man gazes at her glistening eyes and can’t stop coaxing her.

Later, she finds an anonymous scholarship sponsorship agreement in his desk drawer. She holds the contract up, looking baffled, and he simply smiles tenderly. “I’ve liked you for a long time.”

A sweet, slice-of-life romance about a deeply devoted, mature older man rescuing a self-conscious, sensitive young woman.