A Lifelong Promise

One-on-one | Both are each other's first and only | Devoted husband | Taking down scumbags | Workplace power struggles | Lighthearted sweet romance

Two months into my marriage, I discovered that my husband's entire family were liars.

The down payment on our home was a lie, but the 200,000 yuan in online loans was real. The bride price had gone around in a circle and ended up in his father's company. His mother and uncle had plotted, “Once they're married, we'll make Xinyue pay it back too.”

When I asked for a divorce, my ex's family turned around and accused me of seducing other men.

My father paid 50,000 yuan out of pocket to get the divorce done. My former company held up my resignation, my former mother-in-law blocked the door and screamed abuse, and my cousin secretly took photos and spread rumors that I was living off a rich man.

Everyone was waiting to laugh at me.

Until I joined Yuanfan Tech and met Ruan Liqian.

He didn't talk much, but he had everything planned for me. He'd kept a trench coat ready for three months, waiting for me to claim it. Coffee arrived right on time every day, and he even wore the sweater my mother knitted to an all-company meeting.

He said he would pretend to be my “marriage-alliance partner” to fend off pressure to marry. But then he folded a ring out of a supply-chain contract, got down on one knee, and asked, “Will you sign?”

He handled my divorce case. My ex was sentenced to four and a half years, and I tore up his letter of remorse and tossed it into the champagne tower.

My former mother-in-law offered me the family's heirloom jade bangle. “My son chose you. I trust him.”

At our wedding, he said with deep feeling, “I vow to spend the rest of my life...”

I cut him off on the spot. “How long is the rest of your life? Put it in the contract.”

The whole room burst out laughing. He turned to the officiant and said, “Record that. We'll use it the next time we argue.”

On the first day of our marriage, he put a share-transfer agreement on the bedside table. “Marital assets are split fifty-fifty.”

I smacked him in the face with the agreement. “Make breakfast first.”

I'm Wang Xinyue. I don't depend on anyone to get by.

But the contract he offered me? I'm willing to sign it, for life.