Your Harbor Nights [Marriage Before Love]

Older man | Grassroots heroine's rise | Marriage first, love later | Both leads are each other's first A grassroots gold-digger × a composed, insatiable daddy In the 1990s, Gao Niandi flees the Northwest for Hong Kong to avoid being sold off for a bride price, and changes her name to Gao Yuan. To stay alive, she meets the man who will change her life: Liang Yu. Eight years older than her, ruthless and cold-blooded, he's an heir to one of Hong Kong's most powerful families, someone neither the underworld nor the respectable world dares to cross. They've only met twice, yet he marries her. His only condition is that she stay by his side at all times and let him hold and kiss her. In public, Liang Yu is very cold toward Gao Yuan, treating her with icy politeness. In private, though, he's clingy, acting as if he can't live without her. Gao Yuan uses Liang Yu's influence to climb higher and higher. Everyone in Hong Kong laughs that Liang Yu married a gold-digger who only cares about money. She thought Liang Yu had no feelings for her, especially since she knew he still had a beautiful first love in his heart. After news breaks about Liang Yu's rumored romance with his first love, Gao Yuan doesn't share a bed with him for the first time. Then, in the middle of the night, Gao Yuan wakes and sees Liang Yu in his study, holding the pajamas she'd just thrown away, his eyes dark and unreadable. She turns to run, but he pulls her back into his warm embrace. “Mrs. Liang, how about we fulfill our marital duties today, hmm?” 【A drinking guide】 ① The female lead's personality changes a lot over the course of the story. Neither lead is perfect. ② Several male characters have one-sided feelings for the female lead, and she has moments of wavering affection. ③ The leads are each other's first, but not completely untouched. To be precise, the female lead has had past partners, while the male lead has not. Theme: Don't let down your era, and don't let yourself down