Drafting a Contract to Marry a Spoiled Young Master

Mystery and cases * Marriage first, love later

Two-faced female lawyer x fake playboy, secretly pure-hearted male lead

1

Meng Jiu'an, the capital's number one playboy, married Shen Nanfeng, the second young lady of the Shen family and his childhood sweetheart.

Everyone bet he'd take a concubine within three days.

On their wedding night, Shen Nanfeng pulled out paper and a brush. "Write down all the concubines you plan to take from now on."

Meng Jiu'an laughed in disbelief. "Are you just playing at being married?"

"It's a pleasure doing business with you."

Seven years later, the one who owed a debt still hadn't eaten the table.

That day, she called him a scoundrel. "Didn't you promise we'd divorce as soon as we got back to the capital?"

He drew her closer, smiling shamelessly.

"Nanfeng, you're not the only one who can't go through with it."

"Don't forget what we agreed. The first one to fall for real is a puppy."

He rolled over and pinned her down, lowering his head to whisper in her ear, his voice deepening.

"Woof."

2

During all the years Meng Jiu'an spent frequenting the pleasure quarters, he met plenty of women.

Shy, fiery, gentle, but none were as interesting as Shen Nanfeng.

She had acted sweet and obedient in front of everyone for more than a decade, even speaking softly around him. Then he saw Shen Nanfeng at the county magistrate's office, disguised as a man and practicing law. Her gaze was cold and sharp, her words incisive, every sentence a gem.

But the moment she saw him, she hid her fierceness and curtsied. "You're here too, Mr. Meng? Forgive me for my manners."

He laughed.

After they married, he discovered even more of her quirks. When she won a case, she hid in an alley to grin to herself, then immediately put on a stern face when she turned and saw him. When she had a fever, she grabbed his sleeve and wouldn't let go. When she woke and saw the porridge he'd made, she was stunned for a long while before saying, "You're pretty good at taking care of people."

The year he returned to the capital, a young noblewoman asked whether he planned to take a concubine. He gave her an offhand answer, and his wife ignored him for three days after he got home. The maid said, "Madam says you looked so happy at the banquet, you must have someone on the side."

He panicked and ran back with a pledge never to take a concubine.

The tips of her ears turned red.

To everyone else, she was the second young lady of the Shen family, gentle and refined.

To him, she was a bristling cat, all claws and teeth, who only showed him her belly.

Everyone thought she was the one who couldn't live without him.

They were all wrong.

He was the one who had long since become unable to live without her,

so he shamelessly clung to her and plotted every move.

Reading guide:

1. This is a mystery-focused story, driven primarily by the cases.

2. The early chapters mainly follow the heroine's perspective. The hero isn't useless; his role will be explained later.

3. Chapter one sets up a case, so feel free to skip straight to chapter two.

Theme: A lone, fearless heart kindles a flame that the long night cannot extinguish