Introverted, earnest game operations specialist x gentle, scheming game developer
Six-year age gap / Strangers to mutual attraction to married life
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The orchid, a gentleman among flowers, is cool and noble.
Like a lofty bloom that everyone longs for but no one can reach.
Yet this flower ended up in her hands.
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The first time Yuan Zhichu met Lan Xi, Lan was a university lecturer. At a campus recruitment fair, Yuan attended a hiring presentation as a technical specialist from a game company. Lan politely and warmly called him "Teacher Yuan" and even gave him game merchandise from his favorite game. Yuan Zhichu came away with a wonderful impression of him: modest, courteous, a gentleman like an orchid.
A month later, she resigned from the university and joined Lan Xi's company. Only after they got to know each other did she realize that he seemed to have had his eye on her for a long time. From their flirtation to their marriage, every step had been part of his deliberate seduction.
She had taken just one step toward him, but he had taken all the remaining ninety-nine.
[Bonus Scene]
Someone posted on the company forum that the company's heartthrob, Lan Xi, was wearing a wedding ring. Everyone started discussing who had managed to pluck that untouchable flower. While no one was looking, Yuan Zhichu secretly took off her wedding ring and hid it.
At the project progress meeting, Lan Xi sat at the head of the table. His eyes swept over Yuan Zhichu's bare ring finger, but his expression remained calm.
After the meeting, he said, "There's an issue with operations. Zhichu, come to my office and discuss it."
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Yuan Zhichu entered his office. The moment the door shut, he locked it. Lan Xi opened the frosted-glass partition and pressed her into a corner, demanding, "Why aren't you wearing your ring?"
"I..." Yuan Zhichu was at a loss for words.
Lan Xi wrapped his arms around her. "Can't think of an excuse? Then give me a little compensation first."
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Later, Yuan Zhichu discovered that she had been fooled by his cool, abstinent exterior. A truly cool and abstinent man wouldn't buy more than ten boxes of condoms on his wedding day.
Reader's Guide
1. Both leads are sexually inexperienced; one-on-one pairing; happy ending; sweet romance with a gentle, everyday pace.
2. The heroine is an introverted, timid, earnest ordinary office worker. The hero is a senior executive at the company, but this is not a domineering CEO-and-spoiled-wife story.
3. There is a secret-marriage plot later on.
Theme: Love is a journey taken together
Thank you to heaven, thank you to earth, thank you for your hard work~