Shocking! My Cold-Faced Uncle Has Had a Crush on Me for Seven Years

[Marriage first, love later + powerful man humbled + sweet romance + secret crush + both leads are each other’s first and only love]

At her engagement party, Shen Chutang catches her fiancé cheating. She doesn’t cry or make a scene. Instead, she smiles and walks over to the man no one in the room dares cross: her fiancé’s uncle, Huo Sichen.

“Uncle, your nephew isn’t good enough for me. Why don’t you marry me instead?”

The room erupts. He looks at her for three seconds, then slips off a cufflink and places it in her palm. “Let’s go.”

That night, she becomes her former fiancé’s aunt by marriage.

Everyone says Huo Sichen is cold and ruthless, and keeps his distance from women. On their wedding night, Shen Chutang prepares herself for him not to touch her. But when she wakes in the middle of the night, he’s sitting by the bed. Beneath the moonlight, the man who never smiles is watching her without moving.

The next morning, there’s a note by the bed: “You kicked off the blanket last night. That’s the third time.”

It’s a record of how many times he’s secretly watched her sleep over the past seven years.

She asks him, “When did you start liking me?” He opens his safe. The combination is her birthday. Inside there’s no money, only the hair clip she lost when she was sixteen, diaries she wrote, the sleeve from a milk tea cup she gave him, and a stack of photos of her. On the back of the first one, he wrote: “She moved in today. She called me Uncle. I don’t want to be just her uncle.”

Shen Chutang starts to cry. “You waited for me for seven years?” He wraps his arms around her from behind. “I wasn’t waiting. I loved you for seven years and held myself back for seven years. Now I finally don’t have to.”

She thought asking him to marry her that day was a reckless, unconventional choice. She had no idea it was the fulfillment of his wish, seven years in the making.