[Marriage First, Love Later] [Older Man] [Longtime Secret Crush] [Male Lead Uses Seduction]
Jiang Zhi had just graduated from university at twenty-two and was getting ready to face the harsh realities of the working world when she was sent straight into a wealthy family's arranged marriage.
The Jiang family's biological daughter had been missing for years, so their adopted daughter had to take her place in the marriage agreement with the Fu family.
She'd heard that her fiancé, Fu Zhengdong, was thirty, cold, old-fashioned, and uninterested in women.
Jiang Zhi thought, "An eight-year age gap is basically two generations. I'm still drinking milk tea with extra sugar, while he's probably already researching how to lower his cholesterol."
So on their wedding night, she grabbed her luggage and ran away.
The good news: she made it to Haicheng.
The bad news: Fu Zhengdong caught her.
The crazy news: the man handed her an agreement. They'd be married for two years, leave each other alone, and divorce when the term was up.
Jiang Zhi thought it was a mutually beneficial arrangement, unaware that Fu Zhengdong had fallen in love with her at first sight when she was eighteen and his younger brother secretly brought her home.
He waited for her to graduate from university, waited for her to be willing to marry him, only to end up waiting for her to run away.
All he could do was secretly show off and lure her in, one step at a time.
"Jiang Zhi, if this marriage had no end date, would you be willing to stay?"
Note:
The leads are both sexually inexperienced, and the heroine has no sexual experience, though she has been serious about someone else romantically.