Yu Xiaoxing, the second daughter of the Yu family, grew up spoiled and pampered, always getting whatever she wanted. The one thing she couldn't have was the Xu family's young master, Xu Jingchen.
She liked Xu Jingchen for ten years and finally worked up the courage to confess, only to be rejected and suffer the first setback of her life.
From then on, at every gathering in their social circle, if Xu Jingchen was there, Yu Xiaoxing wasn't, and if Yu Xiaoxing was there, Xu Jingchen wasn't.
When her friends asked, she only laughed. "There's no point in throwing yourself at someone forever. You can't force these things."
The two crossed paths again because their families proposed a marriage alliance.
Yu Xiaoxing knew Xu Jingchen was sick of her, so on the night they got their marriage certificates, she laid it all out for him. "I know you married me because of family pressure, and I'm in the same boat. But don't worry. We can have a contract marriage. Once the three-year contract expires, we'll get divorced and go our separate ways."
Xu Jingchen listened with unusual patience as Yu Xiaoxing listed rule after rule. When she asked for his opinion, he calmly pointed out a flaw. "Even a marriage of convenience is still a marriage. We have to fulfill our marital duties."
Yu Xiaoxing: ...
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Yu Xiaoxing dreamed of becoming an actress. She started out as a nobody, carefully honing every role she landed, all for the chance to earn a single comment from viewers: "She made me believe it."
Later, Yu Xiaoxing made it. Her show aired to widespread acclaim, and she even won the Best Actress of the Year award.
Everyone was happy for her, except one person. He replayed a certain scene on his phone over and over, his expression growing darker by the minute.
That night in the villa, Yu Xiaoxing realized Xu Jingchen was very different this time... and much stronger.
In the heat of the moment, Xu Jingchen took her earlobe between his lips and asked, "Is he better, or am I?"
Who was he?
Xu Jingchen had always known the girl who followed him around had feelings for him.
But the second daughter of the Yu family had been doted on and could have anything she wanted. He'd seen Yu Xiaoxing discard things she'd gotten as if they were worthless too many times.
If she treated things that way, what about people?
So when Yu Xiaoxing confessed to him, he rejected her.
He wanted to keep her tethered to him by making himself someone she couldn't have.
But Xu Jingchen never expected Yu Xiaoxing not to follow him as she usually did. It seemed she really... didn't love him anymore.
Even at gatherings with their friends, she acted as if one of them had to be absent.
The calculating young master had finally met his match. In that case, he had no choice but to bring Yu Xiaoxing back to his side through a marriage alliance.
As long as she was by his side, her heart would eventually belong to him too, wouldn't it?
For a while, Xu Jingchen kept hearing people at the company mention Yu Xiaoxing.
At first, he thought his employees had found out about the marriage alliance. Who knew the truth was that his employees were shipping their boss's wife with another man?!
Xu Jingchen watched the video that had the whole internet going wild over the couple, his face dark.
He couldn't understand what there was to ship. All he saw was a man pinning his wife to a bed.
At that moment, Xu Jingchen burned with rage. He wished Yu Xiaoxing could belong to him alone, forever.
No one else was allowed to desire Yu Xiaoxing.
That night, he made love to Yu Xiaoxing for an especially long time, trying to leave his mark on her.
The next day, the young master, who had never posted on Weibo, published his first post:
"Allow me to introduce my wife, @Yu Xiaoxing"
Theme: Love requires sincerity
