Waiting for the Right Moment

Guan Qinghe, the owner of a storytelling teahouse, has a cool, refined beauty. Skilled at playing the pipa, she has a graceful, lilting voice and was voted online as a rare classical beauty. Rumor has it that after a wealthy young man was rejected, he received wedding candy. Someone revealed, "I heard she met her husband through a matchmaker." Everyone was heartbroken and wondered if a husband found through matchmaking would be very ordinary! · As the current head of the Shen family, Shen Jingnian is refined and mature, with elegant tastes. Even the little things he casually handles are worth a fortune. Every year, he makes donations to museums, and the official videos get huge numbers of views. In this year's footage, a crudely made jade pipa had been placed in the very center of the display. The word "Master" was carved on its base. A staff member asked in confusion, "Which master made this?" Shen Jingnian smiled. "It's a wedding gift from my wife." · The Shen and Guan families had arranged a marriage between their families years ago. The younger generation kept trying to pass the match off to one another, none of them wanting to marry a country bumpkin they'd never met. On the day Guan Qinghe called off the engagement, she met Shen Jingnian again. Shen Jingnian poured her tea. "I have the surname Shen too. How about marrying me instead?" At the family banquet after they registered their marriage, Guan Qinghe linked arms with Shen Jingnian, graceful and lovely. The nephews who had previously refused the match were red-eyed with regret. · "You don't belong to the world of romance. The world of romance can't match your tenderness." ★ Classical beauty x gentle gentleman, nine-year age gap ★ Pingtan refers to Suzhou Pingtan. All the pieces featured in the story are real. ·Bonus Scene· On New Year's Eve, the big names in their circle gathered for a party, but Shen Jingnian declined, saying he had "something important to do." That evening, they saw him on TV. In footage from behind the scenes at the gala, the hand Shen Jingnian usually used to sign billion-dollar contracts held an eyebrow pencil as he expertly filled in the brows of Guan Qinghe, who was holding a pipa. A staff member teased, "Mr. Shen, you must do this a lot." His former admirers were all on tenterhooks. They said the wedding candy from President Shen was very sweet and wished them a lifetime of happiness. [New novel: Rules by the Bedside is now available] As the head of a top-tier wealthy family, Song Huaixu is powerful and influential, pure-hearted and desireless, and utterly unattainable. Xu Nanyin, the cherished heiress of a wealthy Hong Kong family, is spoiled and adored by everyone at home. One is cold, the other sweet, and they live worlds apart. No one could imagine that these two would have anything to do with each other in private. At a banquet one day, Xu Nanyin was led to him and pretended they had never met. The man across from her regarded her calmly and said offhandedly, "You didn't say that the last time you held me." · The year Xu Nanyin graduated, an old marriage agreement was brought up again. The match was the Song family's second son. After looking into him, she learned that he was involved with someone else and had even given them both identical gifts. On the day she called off the engagement, Song Huaixu, the Song family's eldest son and head of the family, saw her off. Xu Nanyin took her anger out on him. "I'm not coming back." No one expected that before long, this prominent man with a fortune worth hundreds of billions would travel all the way to Hong Kong. "Marry me. I won't let anything upset you again." After they married, Xu Nanyin went with Song Huaixu to have dinner at the old family home. The second young master looked miserable the entire time, deeply shaken, and still had to address her respectfully: "Sister-in-law." . When she was young, Xu Nanyin lived in Ningcheng for a while. One day, she got lost in the mountains while looking for butterflies to make into specimens. Someone carried her down the mountain that night. Thinking it was someone she knew, she asked sadly, "What if I can't catch any butterflies?" The person comforted her. "There'll be some when you wake up." Later, when Xu Nanyin saw the extensive records of butterfly specimens in Song Huaixu's home, she realized it had been him all along. ★ Heiress with a touch-starvation condition x steady, fatherly tycoon ★ Both are each other's first and only partner ·Bonus Scene· A banquet traditionally follows the financial summit. As a legend in the business world, Song Huaixu was always someone everyone wanted to talk to, but tonight he left early. Someone asked why. Song Huaixu replied calmly, "Sorry, my wife can't sleep alone at night." Only then did Xu Nanyin realize that he had taken the excuse she once casually made at face value all along. Her touch-starvation condition was exactly what it sounded like: she craved skin-to-skin contact. At first, she worried that Song Huaixu wouldn't come home often. Later, she was afraid he would come home every day... Theme: Tenderness has no end.