A Wedding Night in Beijing

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A sweet little treat, please enjoy!

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Li Wu and Xie Jinnian were childhood friends, and the most famous enemies in their social circle.

A marriage of convenience bound them together. After the wedding, they kept their marriage a secret, known only to their closest friends in the circle.

They made three rules: no interfering in each other's business, and each could do as they pleased.

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Li Wu carried on as usual after the wedding. She even pretended not to know Xie Jinnian when they ran into each other in public.

One day, while drinking at a private club recently opened by a friend, she received a message from her nominal husband.

“Where are you?”

“At home, getting ready for bed.”

“Funny, I'm at ‘home’ too.”

When he put special emphasis on the word “home,” Li Wu realized something was wrong.

The man behind her booth gave her a teasing smile and raised his glass from across the room.

Li Wu gritted her teeth. Damn, she'd been caught in the act.

That night, in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows and the sofa at home,

Xie Jinnian's kiss came down, stealing her breath, the scent of alcohol mingling with his as he kissed her inch by inch.

“Xie Jinnian, are you a dog or something?!”

“This is your punishment for pretending not to know me in public.”

“What happened to our three rules? Each of us doing our own thing?”

“I took them seriously.”

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No one thought this pair of childhood friends and sworn enemies would make a good match.

A freewheeling young master and a spoiled heiress? They'd be tearing the roof off and fighting three times a day.

But what everyone saw was that the young master, who had always been free and unrestrained, came home on time every single day after the wedding.

He even used being married as an excuse to turn down invitations to go drinking.

Everyone was left shaking their heads in disbelief.

Later, when people in their circle saw Xie Jinnian humbly coaxing the heiress and indulging her without limit, they were completely dumbfounded.

Seriously, man, have you been possessed?

Didn't you say you were enemies?

She pouts once and you've got that silly grin plastered across your face?

He replied with a smug smile, “The enemies thing was a lie. She's the little sun I've had a crush on for seven years. I plotted this for ages, and now my wish has come true.”

A true romantic, whose secret love finally got a response.

Blurb dated 2025.9.7

Theme: A secret love will eventually see the light of day