Marriage First, Love Later + Five-Year Age Gap + Devoted Hero
[Bright, Clear-Headed, Highly Educated Beauty x Composed, Distinguished Business Tycoon]
Everyone says Ye Qianyu and Ji Mingshu's marriage alliance is nothing more than a game of weighing costs and benefits, with two clever people playing the most familiar strangers to each other.
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On the day they registered their marriage, every document was in order, but their union was only perfect on paper.
Mingshu has seen how much life can change. Clear-eyed and self-possessed, she doesn't expect to find true love in a transaction.
Their days sharing a bed are slow and bittersweet. Someone else might have reached the brink of divorce long ago.
There are countless kinds of love in this world. All she asks is to have a clear conscience. Just as clouds don't need to prove they're clouds, she doesn't need to prove anything to anyone.
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Ye Qianyu thought he could easily maintain their marriage alliance without getting caught up in its loves and losses. After all, in a marriage without love, a quiet life is as good as it gets.
But fate seemed to play a joke on him.
Feelings he'd never spoken aloud as a boy arrived years later, at long last.
The more politely she treated him and kept her distance, the more indebted he felt, and the more he wanted to offer her his whole heart.
The days passed, until Mingshu asked for a divorce. On the twenty-ninth day of the cooling-off period, he went alone to the Civil Affairs Bureau and withdrew the application.
"Mr. Ye, we're only connected by a marriage alliance."
"Mm." He adjusted her scarf. "Now we're on the same side. We can agree to disagree."
People say marriage is a besieged fortress.
But for them, that fortress was not a prison. It was a nest they built together.
