A Late Marriage

Xiang Wan never expected that the man her boss introduced her to for a blind date would turn out to be one of her high school classmates.

Facing an old classmate, Xiang Wan looked a little awkward and uneasy. "Maybe my boss didn't explain things clearly. I've already been married once, and I have a nine-year-old daughter."

They hadn't spoken much back in school. After graduating from college, she got married and had a child, living an ordinary life. Later, she happened to hear that he'd started a business in college and, within just a few years, had taken his company public. He was every bit the favored child of heaven.

He was handsome and distinguished, his refined air making him seem out of place in this ordinary café.

Xiang Wan quickly laid out her situation, calculating that if she hurried home, she might still make it in time to cook dinner for her daughter. Unexpectedly, Huo Siyue looked at her and said calmly, "That's perfect. I don't want to have any more children either."

It took Xiang Wan a long while to understand what he'd said, even though, as far as she was concerned, the blind date was already over. "...?"

Two days later, Xiang Wan walked out of the civil affairs bureau with Huo Siyue, staring at the red marriage certificate in her hand, dazed.

Had she really married Huo Siyue?

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After they married, Huo Siyue asked Xiang Wan and her daughter to move in with him.

On the first night, Xiang Wan put her daughter to bed and fell asleep with her in her room.

On the second night, Xiang Wan put her daughter to bed and didn't return to their room again.

On the third night, just as Xiang Wan was about to go put her daughter to bed, Mr. Huo stopped her in the hallway.

Huo Siyue's handsome face was cool and expressionless. He lowered his eyes to look at her. "Your daughter is already nine. She should have learned how to sleep on her own by now."

That night, Xiang Wan barely slept in Huo Siyue's bed.

Later, Huo Siyue stood by the window, watching Xiang Wan laughing and chatting with her daughter as they watered the flowers downstairs. He wondered: If he'd acted sooner and hadn't been so worried back in high school, would that other man never have come along? Would not only Xiang Wan, but her daughter too, have been his?

"A mild-mannered, honest woman x a secretly controlling, dangerously obsessive man"

Theme: Love calls for commitment, not hesitation.