We Agreed Not to Get Emotional, so Why Are You Jealous, Mr. Wen?

“Neither is chaste” | Love grows over time

[Clear-eyed and forthright × restrained and direct]

Gu Qing’er was twenty-two. As an illegitimate daughter of the Gu family, she had never been allowed to say no to a marriage arrangement.

She had just ended a mutually beneficial relationship with no promises for the future when she was told she had to get engaged to Wen Zhan.

She had no choice but to agree.

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Wen Zhan was thirty-two. To him, an arranged marriage was simply a marriage.

He chose Gu Qing’er because, among a row of photographs, she was the most pleasing to the eye.

At their first meeting, he honestly told her about his past and said that, apart from love, he could meet any need she had.

Gu Qing’er agreed.

That suited her just fine. She didn’t want to get involved with love, either.

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A year into the marriage, aside from their routine marital relations every Friday, they remained polite and respectful, like a pair of honored guests.

Until one day, Gu Qing’er got drunk and accidentally let slip the name of the person she had kept in her heart.

Wen Zhan pinned her to the sofa, gripped her chin, and kissed her. His voice was low and hoarse:

“Is he the reason you’ve been so cold to me?”

“I’m the one you’ve been treating as his substitute.”