[Marriage First, Love Later + Two Strong Leads Flirting + Never Groveling + Sweet Daily Life]
The day Shen Zhiyun married into the Marquis of Zhenbei's household, all of Shengjing said she had married above her station.
Only she knew the truth: she had hooked this marriage herself.
On their wedding night, Heir Apparent Xie Heng asked her with a cold expression, “Do you know why I married you?”
She reached up to undo the first knot on his robe, rose onto her toes, and chuckled in his ear. “We each get what we need. But if you want more, Zhiyun won't refuse.”
Later...
She used a single piece of intelligence to help his Northern Border Army block a secret passage used by enemy forces. Eyes red, he pulled her into his arms. “Shen Zhiyun, how many things are there that I still don't know about you?”
She refused to kneel to her stepmother and produced evidence of a deadly plot. He stood beside her, backing her up. “My wife kneels to Heaven and Earth, the Emperor, and her parents. Everyone else is unworthy.”
When she gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, he waited outside the delivery room, hands trembling so badly he couldn't hold his sword. Tears fell into her palm.
All of Shengjing believed the Marquis of Zhenbei's wife was gentle and virtuous, and had married above her station.
[Reading Guide]
The heroine neither kneels nor cries, and she's no fake innocent. She knows how to charm people in everyday matters and be ruthless when it counts, and uses her accounting books to bring down half the court.
The hero starts out a cold-faced killing machine, but later becomes a jealous, love-struck fool who begs his wife for attention every day.
Everyday sweetness that'll make your teeth ache: tying sashes, feeding her grapes, peeling crabs, sleep-talking... Every little detail will leave you weak in the knees.
A devoted one-on-one couple, both with clean pasts, with children: twins, a boy and a girl.
Only Xie Heng knows the truth: he's the one who got hooked for a lifetime.
