A Gentle Morning

Sensitive, quiet, sweet girl x scheming, mature, privileged gentleman

Married first, fall in love later | The aloof heartthrob's everyday awakening to love | Flirtatious tension

Xie Zhiyin and Yan Shuhuai have been married for a year. By day, she works for Yan Shuhuai at the Yan Group, diligently carrying out her duties as a junior employee in the president's office. At night, she goes home, transforms into an online writer, and updates the short stories she loves to write.

Every time Xie Zhiyin posts an update, the comments go wild:

[Hngh, hngh, how is this so good?! Give us another hundred chapters!!]

[Help, help, author, this is way too spicy?!]

That night, Xie Zhiyin contentedly shut her laptop and left the study, only to run into Yan Shuhuai. Noticing the uneasy flush on her face, he asked, "Are you hot?"

"No, I just exercised for a bit." Xie Zhiyin greeted him and hurried away.

Yan Shuhuai found it strange. "If I can lie down, I won't sit" was her own life motto. What kind of exercise could she possibly be doing?

Then one day, while sending a document, Xie Zhiyin accidentally clicked on Yan Shuhuai's profile picture.

The notification sounded: [Sent successfully]. Xie Zhiyin rushed into his study in a panic. Open on the man's computer was the update she had just finished writing.

When she entered, Yan Shuhuai adjusted the glasses on the bridge of his nose and gave her a meaningful look. "Mrs. Yan, is this the exercise you were talking about?"

The good-girl image Xie Zhiyin had maintained for a year and a half crumbled completely in that moment.

That night, Yan Shuhuai took it upon himself to teach her.

The lesson matched the title of her chapter almost perfectly: The Study.

For the first time ever, Xie Zhiyin missed two days of updates, because Yan Shuhuai gave her no chance to escape.

Xie Zhiyin and Yan Shuhuai had married because their families told them to. She didn't take the study incident to heart.

He was her husband, after all. Anything they did was perfectly reasonable.

But after that day, Yan Shuhuai seemed like a different person.

The man rumored to have no interest in women now held her on his lap and kissed her passionately every day, never seeming to get enough.

"Yinyin, don't push me away."

"Baby, you're doing so well."

"Don't you like it when I do this, baby?"

Xie Zhiyin: Those lines sound so familiar. I feel like I've written them somewhere before.

First version of the blurb written on August 16, 2026. Archived.

Theme: Make the most of every day.