Married First, Fell in Love Later with the Old-Fashioned Opera Diva

Xie Chennong is the most illustrious young talent in Beicheng's business world, a self-made woman of dazzling beauty.

But when her family faces pressure from rising upstarts and urgently needs an alliance with the Cen family to secure its foundations, a marriage contract binds her to the Cen family's least impressive eldest daughter, Cen Xing.

A kunqu opera performer.

Onstage, Cen Xing plays chaste, virtuous women. Offstage, she lives like a statue carved from rules and rituals.

Always an immaculate white shirt, always black hair pinned low, always a calm, almost wooden expression, and the lingering scent of old sandalwood all around her.

Xie Chennong can't believe it, but she has no choice. Their two mothers bundle her off to the bridal chamber.

But on their wedding night, the sandalwood shatters.

Her old-fashioned wife removes her dull black-rimmed glasses, revealing a captivating gaze. Dressed in black lace that is the complete opposite of her usual style, she kneels amid the glaring red silk covering the bed, her skin as pale as the moon.

Meeting Xie Chennong's astonished gaze, Cen Xing simply curls a finger at her, perfectly composed.

Xie Chennong loses her head.

One night of reckless passion.

From then on, Xie Chennong's understanding of her wife begins to crumble.

It turns out that beneath the sandalwood lies the addictive sweetness of iris.

In public, Cen Xing remains the wife who strictly observes ancient etiquette, who will personally show up at a bar to drag her home if she is gone for three days, drawing stares from everyone there.

In private, those calm eyes brim with tenderness, and beneath that rigid shirt is a breathtaking figure that draws her into a world of ecstasy again and again.

Xie Chennong goes from resisting, to getting used to it, to... gradually becoming addicted.

She begins to think that spending the rest of her life with Cen Xing might not be so bad after all.

Until one day, Cen Xing calmly hands her divorce papers.

Only then does the always-confident Xie Chennong finally panic.

Theme: Love can overcome every obstacle