[Decisive, clever CEO heroine x gentle, old-fashioned older man]
Wen Qiyu realizes that this world is completely bonkers. Her parents are devoted readers of runaway-with-the-baby stories, her cousin lives by a guide to becoming the other woman, and she seems to have gotten caught up in a marriage-first, love-later plot herself.
At the wedding, her idiot fiancé cries out that his true love has arrived and leaves her behind. Only then does she realize that this world really is one giant amateur production. She really is the chosen one!
A plot tag flashes past, convincing her that she must be in a marriage-first, love-later plus secret-crush story, and that her former fiancé's older brother must be madly in love with her!
To test whether the plot is real, she spends every day after the wedding testing her husband.
She hears men hate being subjected to emotional abuse, so she does it to her husband every day.
She hears men hate people who don't respect their boundaries, so she pesters her husband nonstop.
After a long silence, Jiang Xiuyan, starved for love, suddenly realizes that his wife must be madly in love with him!
He responds to every word she says, which only strengthens Wen Qiyu's conviction: of course he is madly in love with her!
After they marry, the two are blissfully happy and deeply in love. Each thinks to themselves: My husband (wife) really is madly in love with me!
It isn't until she runs into her former fiancé again that she finally realizes what the plot really is. Marriage first, love later? Clearly, she's in a story about a husband desperately trying to win his wife back, with a perfect first love, a secret crush coming true, and... wait, wait, wait!
Wen Qiyu silently studies the plot, then looks back at her husband, who is cooking. Expressionless, she tears the script to pieces.
She'll choose her own leading man.
