[Contract marriage + marriage first, love later + second male lead’s redemption arc + no getting back together after a breakup]
Clear-headed, decisive heroine × cold-faced, fiercely protective CEO
Her best friend wore the wedding dress she had designed herself and married her boyfriend.
At the wedding, Xu Ange slapped the cheating scumbag, then turned around and married the man who had saved her on a rainy night: Gu Shaobai.
C City’s youngest business legend was cold and refined, able to command the winds and clouds with a flick of his hand.
A marriage of convenience, each getting what they needed. She thought she was just a pawn to help him get rid of unwanted admirers. He thought she was merely a poor little stray he had picked up on a whim.
That was until her ex-boyfriend showed up at the wedding reception to harass her, cornered her on the balcony, forced a kiss on her, and throttled her while demanding she get a divorce.
Gu Shaobai stood behind the curtains and heard every word she said as she fought back.
Then he stepped out, smashed the glass in his hand, and sliced open her ex-boyfriend’s wrist.
“Mr. Nan, keep your woman in check. She’s my wife, Gu Shaobai’s. Anyone who so much as looks at her again is picking a fight with me.”
Later, someone asked Gu Shaobai why he had married Xu Ange in the first place.
He said, “I thought she was a stray cat caught in the rain, so I took her home.”
“I didn’t realize she wasn’t a stray cat, but a phoenix. The kind that rises from the ashes.”
