Newlywed Relationship

Marriage first, love later / Complete strangers / Five-year age gap

Gentle and sensitive x aloof, arrogant guy

For 22 years, Ren Qingxue’s life had been quiet and uneventful, following all the rules. But when she graduated from college, she did the most outrageous thing of her life:

She married a stranger.

By chance, she overheard You Xu’s friend ask him why he had chosen an ordinary girl like her instead of one of the many wealthy heiresses.

You Xu leaned lazily against the balcony and replied carelessly, “Grandma picked her. I don’t know what kind of love potion she gave Grandma, but for some reason, it had to be her.”

You Xu was the only son of the You family, a carefully groomed heir to the corporation.

Ren Qingxue knew how far apart they were. She couldn’t argue with that.

On the day they registered their marriage, he brought out an agreement.

A year later, she had to be the one to ask for a divorce. In return, she would receive a substantial payment.

Ren Qingxue had no reason to refuse.

This marriage had been forced on them by You Xu’s grandmother in the first place.

Everyone in their circle knew You Xu had married. He rarely came home, and everyone knew he didn’t care about this arranged marriage.

Besides, You Xu was famously aloof. He was never short of beautiful women pursuing him, but no one had ever seen him give any of them a second glance.

But later, You Xu grew harder and harder to reach by phone, and harder and harder to coax out.

A nosy acquaintance showed up to catch him at home, only to find You Xu doing chores with his wife, wearing an apron in the color he hated most: pink.

A year later, when the agreement expired, Ren Qingxue asked for a divorce as promised.

But You Xu tore the agreement to pieces right in front of her. He took her hand and begged pitifully, “Don’t go. Will you stay?”

This time, he was the one who couldn’t live without her.

*First draft of blurb: 2026.01.07

*SC/HE. The blurb may still be revised.

*The heroine starts a business, but this isn’t a story about a career-dominating heroine. At its heart, it’s still a romance.

Theme: Building a beautiful life together