A stiff, buttoned-up CEO x a flamboyant male photographer, marriage first, love later, one-on-one romance, gradually falling in love, no secret crushes, both leads have no prior romantic experience, and the male lead has a sharp tongue.
When word spread in their circles that Zhuang Zian and Lu Huan were getting married, nobody believed it.
You have to be kidding.
You're saying the famously stiff and boring CEO Zhuang Zian has fallen for Lu Huan, the playboy photographer who is never home?
Remember, Lu Huan once refused to appear alongside Zhuang Zian in a public interview, telling the media that they were sworn enemies.
It wasn't until the headlines showed photos of their wedding and marriage certificate that anyone believed their marriage was real.
But in the wedding photos, the newlyweds stood so far apart, wineglasses in hand, that the Atlantic could have fit between them. Rumors that their marriage existed in name only soon spread.
Some people in their circles even placed bets on who would be the first to ask for a divorce.
[The Female Lead's Blurb]
When Zhuang Zian received the Lu family's proposal for an arranged marriage, she agreed without a second thought.
She needed an emotionless husband to placate her family and establish a positive image as a business leader.
Lu Huan met every requirement.
He was rich, so she wouldn't have to support him.
He was proud, so he wouldn't argue with her.
Most importantly, he seemed to have a boyfriend, so there would be no chance of romantic complications between them.
The biggest problem was that the odds Lu Huan would agree to the marriage were practically zero.
He hated her. A lot.
[The Male Lead's Blurb]
The name Zhuang Zian had been Lu Huan's nightmare from childhood.
As the kid everyone else's parents held up as an example, Zhuang Zian had been so perfect and stiff from childhood onward that she hardly seemed carbon-based.
Who gets 149 on the math section of the college entrance exam?
Especially when Lu Huan had scored exactly one-tenth of that, lived in the same neighborhood, and was in the same graduating class.
Lu Huan hated Zhuang Zian.
He hated how she effortlessly came in first every time while he languished at the bottom.
He hated how she had started a successful business in college while he went bankrupt and lost everything.
He hated how she was always calm and composed, while he couldn't sleep all night because she had called him by the wrong name.
When his father told him he was to marry Zhuang Zian, Lu Huan thought his father had gone mad and was talking in his sleep.
Zhuang Zian could be interested in him?
She really was. She asked him to meet at a famous couples' restaurant in the city.
What about her assistant? Everyone knew Zhuang Zian had a pretty boy who had been by her side for five or six years.
Lu Huan sneered. He would never be the other man.
Dressed in the new outfit he'd changed into thirty-nine times, Lu Huan happily went to meet her. The first thing Zhuang Zian said made him storm off.
"Hello, Lu Huan. After we're married, I won't interfere with your freedom to date."
Theme: True love arrives.
