Bayesian Updating [Marriage Before Love]

Originally titled Bayesian Updating: I Love You

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[Marriage Before Love] [Rational Female Professor x Scheming Male Lawyer]

Lin Weixi is the youngest mathematics professor at a university of science and technology.

At thirty-two, she's never been in a relationship and believes everything can be calculated.

Marriage? The costs outweigh the benefits. Pass.

Until her own father threatens to kill himself unless she goes on a blind date.

She lays her bank statement, salary card, and work ID on the table.

"Attorney Gu, care to make a deal?"

Across from her sits Jiangcheng's most expensive divorce lawyer.

In ten years of practice, he's seen marriage at its ugliest.

Looking at her now, he asks:

"Does marriage need love?"

"From the perspective of relationships and the behavioral logic of psychology, it does."

"Then do you have feelings for me?"

She thinks for a moment. "I think you could make me feel them."

He freezes for three seconds, then laughs.

"All right. Deal."

After getting married, they sign a twenty-page prenuptial agreement.

Separate finances, divided chores, and intimacy scheduled by the week.

They even calculate when they'll divorce: seven point three years into the marriage.

The day his ex-girlfriend comes back, Lin Weixi receives a provocative photo.

She doesn't cry or make a scene. She simply sends a WeChat message:

"According to the emotional competitiveness model, I'm 23% less competitive than her. You can reassess whether this marriage is worth continuing."

He rushes home and pins her against the wall.

"Lin Weixi, do you fucking realize..."

"I've already lost control."

The first time she lost control was on their blind date.

The second was when he got drunk and walked into the wrong room.

The third was when she discovered she was pregnant.

The fourth is now...

He presses her against the bathroom tiles, his voice hoarse:

"Professor Lin, did our contract ever say..."

"What to do if I want to sleep with you?"

She looks up, expressionless.

But the hand around his neck is trembling badly.

Later, she asks him, "When did it start for you?"

He smiles. "The day you said, 'I think you could make me feel them.'"

She frowns. "That was the truth."

He lowers his head and kisses her collarbone.

"It was. But to me, it was flirting."

She thought marriage was a contract.

He turned the contract into a love letter.

She calculated every probability in the world,

except the odds that she would fall for him.

[Content notes]

The male lead is good at everything: getting jealous, backing down, and turning into a furnace when she's at her coldest.

The female lead is very cold. When she has her first crush, she thinks she's had too much caffeine.

But when a cold person finally warms up, it's lethal.

Theme: She went on seventeen blind dates. Only he became the exception.