Love After Marriage: My Husband Wants to Hug Me Again Today

She is a gifted ballerina who dazzles the audience under the spotlight, but her family's financial struggles threaten to force her to drop out of school.

He is the head of a top-tier, powerful family in the capital, cold and dignified, and notoriously unapproachable.

An unexpected encounter brings Shen Zhiyi and Gu Chenzhou together. With nowhere else to turn, she blurts out, "Mr. Gu, would you marry me?"

Everyone assumes it's a transaction, and even she regrets it. But Gu Chenzhou simply looks at her and answers earnestly, "I'm not joking. I will."

With a prenuptial agreement in place, they become the least couple-like couple imaginable: sleeping in separate rooms and keeping their distance, yet quietly crossing the line through hand-holding in the dead of night, waiting for each other to come home, and caring for each other without a word.

As she gradually blossoms onstage, he is content to be her most devoted audience member. When criticism from the wealthy elite comes pouring in, he defends her in public: "Whether she is worthy of the Gu family is for me to decide."

But falling in love with someone who seems out of reach takes more than courage. It also takes believing that you deserve to be loved.

From marrying first and falling in love later to saving each other, this time, they finally become each other's one true home.