[Older man, mature adults, long-held crush becomes mutual | marriage first, love later | a dead tree blooms again]
By the time Cheng Tianran was twenty-eight, she was already a glass artist with a modest reputation in the industry.
At her first solo exhibition, she ran into Fei Chenqing, the older brother of her first love and ex-boyfriend, Shi Yi.
He asked her, "Do you still remember me?"
She hated Shi Yi, and couldn't be nice to anyone connected to him.
Who wants to remember you? Don't act like we're close!
Fei Chenqing drew plenty of attention at the event. He was an award-winning landscape photographer, known as Master Fei.
When he asked her, "Could I take a photo with you?"
"No need, thanks."
Cheng Tianran turned him down in front of everyone.
She had loved Shi Yi deeply, and she hated him too.
They had dated for four years at university. She had given him her whole heart, only to be dumped and betrayed after graduation.
Shi Yi had turned around and gotten together with the woman he'd been cheating with.
Cheng Tianran was stubborn, and the whole affair had become a wound she carried deep inside.
The next time she saw Fei Chenqing, her relatives were pressuring her to go on a blind date.
She went, and the man who showed up was Fei Chenqing.
"Fancy seeing you again."
Fei Chenqing was dressed formally and spoke with elegance, exuding the composure of a mature man.
To Cheng Tianran, he was different from his younger brother Shi Yi, but she was still prejudiced against him.
Cheng Tianran teased him, "How does a famous photographer like you end up on a blind date? Are you getting too old and putting the girls off?"
An old man, she thought of him.
Fei Chenqing was four years older than her. At thirty-two, he was perfectly old enough to be thinking about marriage, but she was taking out her anger at Shi Yi on him.
"What about you? I thought you wouldn't come," he asked, sounding far too serious.
He was so straightforward that Cheng Tianran relaxed too. She didn't have to pretend, so she answered as she pleased: "I was forced to come. Besides, I figured I'd get out and see the world."
"Then do you think I would do?"
"Do for what?"
"As a marriage partner."
Cheng Tianran's eyes lit up.
Yes! Absolutely!
She came up with a plan: she'd marry the despicable jerk's older brother to get back at him.
They hit it off, and the marriage was settled.
"Your younger brother will come to our wedding, right?"
"He can come or not, as he likes. This is our wedding, and it has nothing to do with him."
[A photographer with a decade-long unrequited love that finally comes true x an artist who marries first, loves later, and takes revenge on a scumbag]
Theme: Older men's love is just too good.
The author has written so many books, one day they will be seen 🥺[rose]