A Marriage Alliance

Coming next: the contemporary novel Bullying the Weak, or the transmigrate into a book novel Childhood as the Supporting Female Lead in a Period Novel This novel will be going premium on Friday, December 11, starting with Chapter 24. Hope you enjoy reading. The Tan and Gu families planned to unite through marriage. But the Tan family's daughter was already pregnant with someone else's child, and what should have been a happy occasion was about to turn into a disaster. Someone reminded the head of the Tan family, "Don't you have another daughter?" And so Tan Chuxin, the illegitimate daughter the Tan family had kept outside the household, was brought in at the last minute to take her sister's place and marry Gu Ziang, the fourth son of the Gu family. On their wedding night, Gu Ziang didn't come home all night. The next night, Gu Ziang didn't come home all night again. When it was time for the newlyweds to visit her family three days later, someone had to drag Gu Ziang away from his lover's arms. A conspicuous lipstick mark showed on his neck. Tan Chuxin was gracious and gave him face, leaning affectionately against Gu Ziang and taking all the teasing and jokes in stride. When they got home that day, Tan Chuxin had a heart-to-heart with Gu Ziang. "I know you have someone you love, and I'm not the one you wanted to marry. Our marriage will last a year. After that, we'll announce that we're separating because we're incompatible." When she finished, she frowned at the man across from her, who fell short in every way. "What do you think?" Gu Ziang tapped his fingers on the table, looking pleased. "Agreed." Then... During their year of marriage, Gu Ziang saw his wife three times in total. Their wedding anniversary was also the day their one-year contract expired. To convince both their families that their marriage really had become impossible, they had a big argument, then happily went to get their divorce certificates. Gu Ziang's friends threw him a bachelor party. Someone asked him over dinner, "What was being married like?" "Didn't feel like anything." "What about getting divorced? You must have been thrilled." "Didn't feel like anything." His friend teased him. "Oh, come on, you're putting on an act." Gu Ziang told the truth. "I never even held my wife's hand. What was I supposed to feel?" His friend stared at him in shock. "You mean you can't even remember what your wife looks like? No, your ex-wife, I mean." "..." It wasn't quite that bad. Her lips were pretty soft. His friend took out his phone and pulled up a post. "Look, now that she's escaped your clutches, your ex-wife is celebrating her freedom." Tan Chuxin smiled brightly in the photo. Gu Ziang pulled out his own phone and scrolled back and forth, only to find that... his ex-wife had deleted him. Gu Ziang felt strangely unsettled. He knew he was a jerk, but he hadn't expected to meet someone even cooler than him. Tan Chuxin kept three things firmly in mind: she was the Tan family's illegitimate daughter; she had married Gu Ziang because the Gu family had settled for her; and Gu Ziang didn't love her. So... to hell with it. For a year of marriage, Tan Chuxin thanked Gu Ziang for leaving her "untouched." For a year of marriage, Tan Chuxin filled a little notebook in her heart with Gu Ziang's "crimes." A groveling ex-husband's journey to win her back? Not even close. Just wait until you have to brave the flames and climb the mountain of knives. The heroine is a cool girl. Theme: The person in front of you is the right one