Barely Veiled [Marriage Before Love]

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Marriage first, love later / Fake romance that turns real / Substitute romance / Two strong leads who save each other / Happy ending

Yu Weizhi, born into the second branch of the family, was disliked even by her own mother from childhood.

But in one sudden turn of fortune, she rose from obscurity to become head of the Yu family, commanding half of its vast business empire.

Beneath her steely exterior,

hid a heart that had died completely when she was twenty-one.

That year, the person she loved most was reduced to ashes in a nationally shocking plane crash, impossible to piece back together.

From then on, Yu Weizhi became an iceberg.

Everyone said the eldest daughter of the Yu family was cool and self-possessed, uninterested in men, an ice that could never be warmed.

And that grand alliance marriage was nothing more than a stepping stone she'd carefully chosen to secure her position.

Rumor had it that the Cheng family's heir was cold-blooded and heartless, and looked down on the marriage alliance.

But no one knew that he had quietly fallen for her even before the engagement.

On the first day of their student exchange program, Cheng Xiaoyi met his best friend's girlfriend.

In other people's descriptions, she was as lovely as poetry, as a fairytale, as a rose dusted with snow on a winter's day.

At first, he looked at her with feelings he couldn't explain: admiration, longing, and curiosity.

He watched her claw her way out of the mud, break through every barrier, and grow into the dazzling rose she was now.

He waited for five years, patiently holding back for five years, all so he could claim this thorny flower, roots and all.

After the wedding, they kept up the pretense of being as respectful as "ice" toward each other.

Then one drunken night shattered it.

Like a wounded little beast, she clutched his tie and pleaded, "Don't go. Please don't leave me alone..."

In a room filled with the scent of blooming roses, Cheng Xiaoyi kissed away the tears at the corner of her eye.

"All right. I won't go."

He whispered in her ear, his voice both coaxing and impossible to refuse.

"But tonight, I'm yours."

"And I'll love you more than he did."

When the morning sun fell across her face, the man beside her was still asleep.

"Cheng Xiaoyi..."

This "husband" had not only clung to her, but his words and mannerisms... even the position of his beauty mark were exactly the same.

He shamelessly relied on his acting skills, setting the most ruthless trap to win the heart of the person he loved most fiercely.

Their year-long marriage without sex officially changed the night she got drunk and mistook him for someone else!

On the surface: A cool, powerful heiress vs. an elegant, rakish heir

In reality: A sensitive, volatile woman who makes people ache for her vs. a sly, shameless man who talks dirty

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Cool, gentle genius female doctor vs. noble, calculating, unhinged heir

Unrequited love becomes mutual / Marriage first, love later / Fake romance turns real / Wealthy families / Redemption / Each other's first and only / Happy ending

Song Tangxu, the beautiful, icy star of the provincial hospital's burn and reconstructive surgery department, is someone to admire from afar, never to be touched.

Shao Yunzheng is a 188-centimeter-tall heir from Beijing's elite circles, broad-shouldered and narrow-waisted, noble, calculating, and commanding.

Though they came from completely different worlds, a marriage contract forced them together.

Their married life was just as outsiders predicted: an alliance of convenience, separate bedrooms, each leaving early and returning late.

Until the great earthquake, when Shao Yunzheng volunteered to enter the ruins.

Through the billowing dust, he saw Song Tangxu kneeling beside a stretcher. Her face was bare and smudged, but her hands were as steady as stone as she performed first aid.

In that instant, the heir, who had always been able to control the situation and hide his emotions, felt his heart stop for a beat.

Few people knew that his true dream as a teenager had been to become a doctor and save lives.

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From that day on, Shao Yunzheng started acting "strangely":

He spent noticeably more time at their marital home, voluntarily told her his business travel plans, and asked when she finished work so he could pick her up on his way...

Song Tangxu assumed it was just standard procedure for a marriage of convenience and paid it no mind.

The pair, who had always treated each other with polite respect, got drunk one night and lost themselves in passion.

Shao Yunzheng's eyes roiled with an unfamiliar tide of emotion as he held her wrist.

"I want to take responsibility for what happened last night."

But Song Tangxu turned away with easy confidence, without the slightest hesitation.

"We're just two adults getting what we want. Besides, I only see you as the older brother of a family friend..."

His ears tingled. Those words sounded strangely familiar.

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Later, Shao Yunzheng came across a yellowed notebook.

Inside were ten years of humble yet burning love from her girlhood.

"I saw Shao Yunzheng again today. He looks so good in a white shirt."

"He's sick. His face looks a little pale, and I'm worried."

The writing on the last few pages was shaky and messy: "I hope Shao Yunzheng has a bright future and a life free of worry."

He closed the notebook. In his memories, a young woman had once approached him holding flowers, her eyes full of hope.

But at the time, he had been laughing with someone else. "Don't get the wrong idea. Tangxu is just the little sister of a family friend..."

So the love he longed for now had been within reach all along, in that grand rain of begonias!

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