[Only loves her]➕ [Both are devoted to each other]➕ [The powerful one bows his head]
The Wen family went bankrupt. To secure an investment, the girl's biological father planned to send his illegitimate daughter into a marriage alliance with the elite Fu family.
But the illegitimate daughter was already pregnant before marriage, so he turned to Wen Qingyan, his legitimate daughter, who was working away from home while her mother was gravely ill.
He called it compensation, but in truth, he was using her as a bargaining chip to obtain resources.
She arrived at the matchmaking banquet in a red dress, intending to get through the transaction and be done with it.
But when Fu Junian, refined and aloof, a man revered by everyone in Beijing's social circles, saw her, he stood up at once. “Come on. Let's get our marriage license.”
Half an hour later, they were at the civil affairs bureau, and Wen Qingyan had her marriage certificate. She was dazed the whole time.
When she returned to the Wen family to pack her things, her stepmother and stepsister slapped her in front of everyone, while her father pretended to smooth things over.
Fu Junian pulled out their marriage certificate in front of the crowd and shielded her behind him, sweeping a cold glance over everyone. “She's my wife. You don't get to lay a hand on her.”
She thought theirs was just a marriage of convenience, until she followed him back to the Fu family estate.
The matriarch of the Fu family recognized her at once: the little girl who used to love desserts.
Only then did Wen Qingyan realize that Fu Junian's sudden whirlwind marriage hadn't been a spur-of-the-moment decision at all.
He had held her in his heart ever since that summer in their childhood, more than a decade ago.
After years of keeping his feelings hidden and carefully plotting every step, this marriage alliance was the culmination of his long-planned pursuit.
From then on, she could draw on all the Fu family's resources to weather any storm, while he crushed every one of her awful relatives.
He would make up, little by little, for every hardship Wen Qingyan had suffered.
