I Married for Peace and Quiet, but He Clings to Me Like a Ghost

[Marriage Before Love + Contract Marriage + He Falls First + Mutual Firsts + Sweet Romance + Deadpan, Dry-Humored Heiress and Drug Researcher × Goofy, Love-Struck Tycoon Who Has Been Scheming for Ages and Keeps Winning Himself Over]

Content warning: There is a male-male secondary couple.

After marrying Lang Qi, Sang Cheng read every marriage-before-love CEO romance on the market until he knew all the tropes by heart.

He clapped his hands. “I’ve got this.

I’ll be the best man in the world at turning a marriage into love.”

So he bought her gifts, acted like a devoted puppy, and gave his wife whatever she asked for. Then he lost to her childhood sweetheart.

Sang Cheng: ???

There had to be something he didn’t know. How could some childhood friend beat the man who came along later?

So he read every CEO romance on the market where the childhood sweetheart lost to the new arrival, then clapped his hands again. “I’ve got this.

I’ll be the first man ever to beat the childhood sweetheart perfectly!”

So he braved wind and rain to support his wife’s laboratory, and ended up on the final night of their divorce cooling-off period.

Clutching his buddies, he wailed, “I don’t want to divorce her!”

His buddies: ...Brother Cheng, stop crying. Your sister-in-law won’t change her mind.

Lang Qi, outside the door: ...Come in. Tell him to come home.

At first, Lang Qi really disliked slick-talking men like Sang Cheng.

He knew everything about her, giving her guarded heart a sense of crisis unlike anything she had ever felt.

Later, though, she grew used to having someone like him by her side, someone who understood all her moods and preferences, and always responded just right to her inexplicable behavior. If there is such a thing as love at first sight lasting a lifetime, then every time you and I meet is a day of spring sunshine and bright scenery.