After We Were Forced to Live Together, My Cool Boss and I Got Our Happy Ending

[Two male leads + realistic healing + age gap + childrearing + marriage before love, sort of]

“Zhuang Guanfu spent his whole life calculating what was in people’s hearts. The one thing he never expected was to fall for a guy who makes bread.”

Zhuang Guanfu, 34, head of Yongkang’s Guanfu Hardware.

To outsiders, he is an urbane benefactor. In truth, he is a wolf who has fought his way through the cutthroat business world.

His push into smart security systems has left him buried in debt, and every night he relies on alcohol and pills to fall asleep.

Until one stormy night, he stumbled into a bakery at the end of an alley called No Blame.

Xie Wujiao, 27, a reclusive genius pastry chef who has left the business.

Cool, solitary, and bristling with thorns.

His bread is just like him: hard as a rock, yet warm enough to scald in the dead of night.

He despises merchants who reek of money, especially a smiling schemer like Zhuang Guanfu.

When they first met, Zhuang Guanfu offered him a black card. “I’ll take care of this child. From now on, your shop is on me.”

Right in front of him, Xie Wujiao tossed the card into a flour bin. “Turn left at the door. Don’t let it hit you on the way out.”

He thought he could force his way in with money, never imagining he was inviting a wolf into his home.

To help Xiaoman, the child of an old friend, overcome his mutism, Zhuang Guanfu made himself at home in the bakery.

By day, he was President Zhuang, making strategic decisions and trading toasts over drinks at business dinners;

By night, he dropped his disguise and watched the cool, aloof man in the rising steam...