I want to read something like An Unfamiliar Marriage in the Capital. The leads marry without having any feelings for each other! No long-planned schemes, and no secret crushes turning into love. I hope both leads can actually communicate 👄
A true case of love after marriage, a bittersweet love story filled with both passion and despair. He imprisons her but leaves with a staggering 500 million yuan settlement. Despite having a child together, their relationship is strained. In his dreams, he vaguely hears her crying and talking, which he dismisses as mere dreaming. She measures his neck with a rope, and he discovers it. She says she wants to buy him a necklace; he doesn't believe her. Instead, he ties her hands with the rope, warning her that they are enemies. She feels no love from him and only wants a divorce, wanting to run away pregnant and pack her things. He discovers this and prevents her escape, imprisoning her. He doesn't realize he's fallen in love with her. Neither knows the other's feelings, yet they bear the deep-seated hatred of their families' feud. Hatred blinds them to love, creating a bittersweet love. Beneath the surface of his facade lay a sugar-coated hatred. She repeatedly tried to ask him if he loved her, but his answer was always the same: enemy. Those two words killed her heart. Perhaps love wasn't important at all, but she desperately wanted him to set aside their generations-long feud and love her. She finally didn't want to love anymore; this tangled web of love and hate was too exhausting. She wanted to escape, but he monitored her 24/7. Her family came with a bunch of weapons to rescue her, but seeing them all injured, she lost all will to live and smashed her head against a wall. Her hatred for him intensified many times over. He watched her collapse, his heart breaking at the sight of her tears. The butler asked him if he had fallen in love with her, but he stubbornly insisted, ordering a doctor to save her. He didn't want her to die; he wanted... She was perfectly fine; he'd been completely ruined by her. She survived, and only then did he realize he'd fallen in love with her. Some loves are just too hard to express. She had amnesia; she hit him as a reward. She forgot all their past grievances and grudges, yet he told her she was his husband and even lied to her about having a child. They were more affectionate than ever before. In her dreams, she asked him if he loved her, and he unconsciously and tenderly replied that he did. But when he woke up and asked again, he wouldn't answer. He thought that ignoring difficult questions was the best approach. He thought their lives would continue happily and peacefully like this forever. But then she regained her memory. All the bad things he'd done to her, all the unkindness he'd shown her, that one slap had long since driven her love away. Her bittersweet love... It's not worth it. It was their parents who wanted them to marry in the first place, and now it's their parents who want them to divorce. They've been urging him to divorce repeatedly, both before and after his amnesia. He already knows he's fallen in love with her, and he resolutely refuses to divorce, but it's too late. His father demands 50 million as a breakup fee, but he won't budge for money. However, she demands a staggering 500 million to leave, and his father agrees. She finally returns to her parents' home with dignity, but he chases after her, disregarding everything, even if her family kills him, to beg her to come back. He arrives, her family thanks him, and she's completely bewildered. His father also arrives, fearing for his precious son's life. Can he win her back? Will they continue in this old predicament of deep-seated hatred and unrequited love?
