* Repressed, old-fashioned, honest man | Traditional Chinese medicine practitioner X Arrogant, flamboyant social butterfly | Toy company CEO
Marriage first, love later | Five-year age gap | Older man | Bittersweet romance
After spending a night at a hotel with a woman, Shi Qing thought her companion looked familiar, but couldn't remember where she'd seen her. In the end, she left her a card as compensation.
Three months later, for certain reasons, Shi Qing impulsively married a woman. Her bride was Gu Lingjun, a younger member of the Gu family, longtime friends with the Shi family.
On their wedding night, Shi Qing provocatively blew smoke rings in front of Gu Lingjun. Holding the file about Gu Lingjun's marriage prospects and other personal details, she glanced flirtatiously at the tall figure in the lamplight. "Gu Lingjun... Dr. Gu, looks like you're quite the liar."
Shi Qing never imagined that one reckless night after returning to China would lead her to sleep with her older sister's fiancee.
She never imagined, either, that from then on, beneath that woman's composed exterior, every single thing she did would silently demand a proper place in Shi Qing's life...
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Gu Lingjun had been taught by her elders in the Gu family from childhood to think carefully before every word and action. The most outrageous things she'd ever done were: 1. Go to a bar once after her friends egged her on. 2. Get drunk and willingly spend the night in bed with that unruly woman she'd known since childhood.
She lost her dignity and her heart, and then had to face the elders of both the Gu and Shi families.
After Gu Lingjun deliberately went along with the setup that night, the two families had no choice but to sensibly replace the older sister with the younger one, Shi Qing, whom Gu Lingjun had loved for years.
/. In short, it's a story about a long-dormant passion secretly catching fire, a marriage-first, love-later romance, and two people seducing each other~
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1. Romance first, plot second.
2. Contains many authorial inventions.
3. A companion story to "My Cool, Aloof Boss and I Became a Mommy's Boy and His Mommy."
4. Can be read as a standalone.
Blurb revised August 15, 2026 (tentative, may change)
Theme: Promote and pass down the culture of traditional Chinese medicine
