Strangers

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A heads-up: mutual tops (emphasis on this).

One of them has a romantic history (especially important). First-person narration. A melodramatic old-flame trope. Old-school prose. An alternate modern setting where same-sex marriage is legal. A domineering CEO who keeps his power under wraps, though his career occasionally gets in his way.

After three years of marriage, Bai Lizhou and Zhou Luhua were still strangers. Their families arranged the marriage, and each got what they wanted. They lived under the same roof, but had separate rooms and separate lives. Then Zhou Luhua's old flame returned to the country. Bai Lizhou stood in front of their home like a one-man barricade, declaring, “You are not going to see him today!” And so their marital war began.

As they traded moves and pulled at each other, everything started to spiral out of control.

A cool-headed group chairman who gets cheeky once you know him x a perceptive, proud entrepreneur who knows when to advance and when to retreat

It took two clever people three years to prove one thing: a lack of communication really can be fatal.

Theme: Spend a lifetime together