My Marriage Partner Has Had a Crush on Me for Years

[Marriage First, Love Later + Marriage Alliance Between Prominent Families + Reunion After Years Apart + Reserved Male Lead + Long-Standing Scheme + Physical Intimacy Before Emotional Intimacy]

Xu Qianchi has been afraid of Li Qingyan since she was little.

As a child, Xu Qianchi had soft, delicate features, and everyone who saw her praised her for being sweet and adorable.

Li Qingyan was much older than her. He usually only played with her older brother, rarely paid her any attention, and always kept a cold, taciturn face.

Young Xu Qianchi always thought he didn't like her.

As they grew older and entered junior and senior high school, the cool, quiet boy she remembered changed completely.

He was rebellious and unruly, skipping class, getting into fights, and doing whatever he pleased, proud and impossible to tame.

Over time, the little fear in her heart slowly turned into a faint sense of annoyance and distance.

She became even more certain that they weren't cut from the same cloth.

Later, he went abroad, and she finally erased him from her life.

It wasn't until a dinner with both families that she learned he had returned to the country.

Then came the news of a marriage alliance.

The match was between her and him.

She thought he would refuse.

He didn't.

One night after their wedding, he sat by the bed and gazed at her, his eyes dark.

Xu Qianchi curled farther beneath the covers. "Why do you keep staring at me?"

Li Qingyan leaned toward her and said softly:

"I can't get enough of looking at you."

With her ears turning red, she warned him not to say things that could be misunderstood.

But he only smiled. "Misunderstood? Xu Qianchi, why do you think I didn't refuse this marriage?"