Gu Yan thought the most outrageous decision he had ever made was pointing at Ju Yao, a woman he had never met, during a family meeting and saying, “I’ll marry her.”
At the time, he was the youngest head of a company worth tens of billions in the business world, while she was an unremarkable pediatrician at a public hospital.
The first clause of their prenuptial agreement: Neither of us interferes in the other’s affairs.
Ju Yao signed without hesitation. All she wanted was the traditional Chinese medicine formula from the Ju family, which she could only obtain through a marriage alliance.
But on the very first day after the wedding, the icy CEO showed up outside her department carrying a thermos. “Dr. Ju, your lunch.”
When a colleague asked who he was, he replied without batting an eye, “Her husband.”
Ju Yao: ??? What happened to not interfering in each other’s affairs?
Later, one day, Ju Yao found a handwritten agreement in the study: an addendum to their prenuptial agreement.
It had just one line: “All clauses are void. I’m going to win you over again. Gu Yan.”
Blurb Two (career-focused):
The day Ju Yao married into the Gu family, all of Rongcheng waited for a spectacle.
A pediatrician who had clawed her way up from a county town, marrying into the Gu family, which controlled half the traditional Chinese medicine market in the southwest. What was that, if not a lamb walking into a tiger’s den?
Everyone assumed she would be just like the other “marriage alliance pawns” before her, quietly playing the pretty ornament.
Until a year later...
She had overhauled the Gu family’s medicinal herb supply chain, nursed Gu Yan’s younger brother back to his feet after three years of paralysis, and turned the Gu Group’s top-tier hospital from a loss-making business into a profitable one in just eight months.
And Gu Yan, the once-arrogant CEO, said the most pathetic thing of his life at a board meeting one day:
“I’ll have to go home and ask my wife about this proposal.”
