To Be Honest, I Love You

[Next up: Lifelong Romance. Blurb at the bottom. Please add it to your collection!] Blurb: Zhou Qi's ideal married life was to share a home with someone, live in separate rooms, and maintain a reasonable distance. Zong Jin gave a mocking laugh. "What you're describing is just making do." Later, he showed her through his actions that life held more than just making do: there was also shameless flirting, anytime and anywhere... Beautiful, cool on the outside and sweet on the inside dentist VS cunning, suave entertainment mogul, whose roguish side comes out later Pre-release: Lifelong Romance At the age of twenty-six, Xiang Xizhao followed her family's arrangements and married Zhou Xingsu, the second son of the Zhou family, whom she had known for twenty-six years. They were simply following orders, each minding their own business. On their wedding night, Xiang Xizhao thoughtfully laid things out for him: "If one day you really meet someone you can't live without, remember to tell me. Given our friendship, as long as we divide the assets fairly, I'll let you go, and we'll part on good terms." Zhou Xingsu gave her a casual glance. "Are you paving yourself an escape route?" "?" "If the situation were reversed, I'd make sure you left with nothing." "??" "And I'd make sure your lover could never hold his head up again." He smiled and added calmly, "Either of his heads." Later, late one night, he came close to her, his deep eyes bloodshot with drink. "If all you can give me is love that simply goes along with what's happening..." She cut him off and asked earnestly, "Then you'd rather have nothing?" He pinned her arms behind her back against the wall. After a long moment, he lowered his head and let out an almost inaudible sigh. "Zhaozhao, don't bully me so much." She never saw that, in those times and places where she was both present and absent, someone secretly sewed a corner of her old school uniform into his sleeve. In someone's travel app, countless arcs crisscrossed the space between two points, weaving a net that drew her into his trap. Xiang Xizhao: "? What other surprises do you have that I don't know about?" "What you don't know is that, in those recurring dreams, you love me too." Marriage first, love later. The male lead has a secret crush. Both are sexually inexperienced. Theme: