#Beijing Aristocratic Circle #Marriage First, Love Later #Bickering Couple #Playboys and Party Girls Turn Over a New Leaf
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Zhou Miao, the eldest daughter of the Zhou family, is North America’s number-one drama queen. Her collection of boyfriends spans five continents, earning her the title “Collector of Human Diversity.”
She thought she would always be the one to dump people, until an old-money Brit used a fairytale romance to manipulate her into doubting everything she knew about life. When he broke up with her, he twisted the knife: “You don’t understand love at all.”
Zhou Miao: “??? I’ve dated dozens of guys, and you say I don’t understand?”
Grandpa Zhou was furious. He launched an international manhunt, had her bundled back to the capital overnight, and threw her into the matchmaking circuit.
Zhou Miao gave up and deliberately chose the man with the worst reputation in their circle.
Huo Ran, a notorious playboy among the capital’s young elite, had a little black book thicker than a phone book. They said that even a dog passing by him would get flirted with.
Her friend advised her, “Why are you trying to get back at that Brit? Don’t ruin your whole life over him.”
Zhou Miao sneered. “I’m not trying to get back at anyone. I just think we’re a good match.”
She wanted to make her ex jealous, and Huo Ran happened to be a bachelor who used marriage to fend off pressure from his family. They hit it off and started putting on a loving-couple act in front of all of Beijing.
Everyone waited to see how long it would take them to break up.
Then their grandfathers joined forces, boxed them into getting their marriage certificates, and called it “two negatives make a positive.”
On their wedding night, they stared at each other and decided to make the best of it. Neither of them had taken the marriage seriously anyway.
Zhou Miao began to settle down and learn how to be a good wife.
One day, she happened to hear Huo Ran answer a friend’s call. The man on the other end laughed nastily. “Ran, with your wife’s history, they’re all laughing at you for taking someone else’s leftovers, hahaha, ”
She was about to storm in and lose her temper when she heard Huo Ran reply lazily, “Let them laugh. I like her just the way she is.”
Zhou Miao’s heart softened. After Huo Ran hung up, she strolled over and looked at him with a teasing smile.
“They’re all laughing at you, but you’re the funniest one of all.”
Huo Ran’s face darkened. “...Zhou Miao, you little menace!”
As soon as the words left his mouth, Zhou Miao rose onto her toes and kissed him quiet.
Who needs a destined soulmate when this man is right here?
He’s the funniest, and the dearest.
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Content warning: Neither lead is sexually inexperienced. Don’t read if that bothers you.
Theme: True love may come late, but it arrives in the end.
