The Second Marriage

Name: The Second Marriage
Author: I Just Love Water Chestnuts

第二婚

by I Just Love Water Chestnuts (就爱吃马蹄)

Status: Completed
Length: 142k Words
Genre: Modern Romance
Subgenre: Workplace & Marriage
Updated: 5mo ago
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Kang Shuting was raised by others from childhood. There are three sisters with three different surnames, and she is the least favored, the middle child. People starved of love are either fantasizing about finding someone to love, or fantasizing about being loved. At 35, after being passed over by one match after another, she dreams of spending a passionate night with a man she's meeting for only the second time. Could this new flutter in her heart be another false alarm? What should she do? He's divorced? And how could it be that he's had a crush on her all along? What's more, his feelings for her are both physical and emotional: a total trump card. “I like you. Marry me!” Good heavens, a section chief at a municipal agency, three years younger than her, proposes right off the bat. Is he the perfect match fate has sent her, or a scammer looking to fleece her through a matchmaking setup? Her zodiac year is off to a disastrous start! Eighteen years later, she runs into Wu Zhuoxuan, the subject of her high school rumors, while both are working in the public sector in the same county. That girl, tough on the outside but broken within, now leads a region and is a rising star in the small county's political scene. A whirlwind marriage, divorce, infidelity, and being an unfilial daughter... She's still the queen of gossip. But no one knows the even more explosive secrets: her ex-husband was impotent for eight years, her child's biological father is someone else, and she herself isn't their biological daughter... When her first love, a wealthy CEO who's remained unmarried for years, comes back to claim his child, and her deeply devoted ex-husband, whom she's grown to love over time, wants them to keep living together, how should she choose? “Let's test the waters first! If we choose wrong, the two of us can always grow old together anyway.” (Turning the winding experiences of myself and a close friend into a novel was a dream I had when I was young. Now, nearing forty, that dream has matured with time, so the story unfolds slowly and delicately, but it's sincere, healing, and warm with the texture of everyday life. I hope every word will resonate gently with you, who have weathered the years.)

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