After Grandpa Tricked Me into Marriage, the Reserved Mr. Zhao Broke His Rules to Spoil Me

[Marriage First, Love Later + Age Gap + Sweet Romance in Beijing’s Elite Circles + The Cool CEO Breaks His Rules + Mutual Devotion]

A cool, noble man in power × a lively, adorable ray of sunshine

On Gu Nanzhi’s twentieth birthday, her own grandfather tricked her into going to the hospital with a call claiming he was critically ill. Then he coaxed her through her tears to the marriage registry, where she somehow ended up registering her marriage to Zhao Huaian, the eldest grandson of the Zhao family, one of Beijing’s elite.

Zhao Huaian, according to the rumors, was thirty, as bright and pure as moonlight after rain, steady and reserved. He was the most proper young master in Beijing’s elite circles, and the least likely to fall in love.

Gu Nanzhi had assumed their marriage was just an absurd arrangement made by their elders. Afterward, they would treat each other with respect and live separate lives.

That was until their first night as newlyweds, when she slept sprawled over Zhao Huaian like an octopus and woke up wanting to die of embarrassment.

Later, when people mocked her for marrying above her station, he took her hand in front of everyone. “Mrs. Zhao, who dares to mistreat you?”

She casually mentioned wanting milk tea, and he broke his rules to drink it with extra sugar. When she came home late from class, he waited for someone for the first time. When rumors hounded her, he walked through the rain himself, holding an umbrella over her.

Everyone said Zhao Huaian was proper and cold. Only Gu Nanzhi knew that all his loss of control, favoritism, and tenderness were hers alone.

This was a marriage her grandfather had tricked her into, and Zhao Huaian’s carefully planned, lifelong devotion.