A Peach Blossom Debt

Chapters marked "lightly revised" have changes to Big Brother Qiao's storyline, but they don't affect this novel's plot. The series novel "After Marriage, I Fell" is in my author column. Blurb: [Wealthy family / marriage first, love later] Rumor has it that Ningcheng has a Qiao heiress who's gentle and elegant, beautiful enough to outshine the moon, and never raises her voice. Yet this ethereal young lady married Jiang Yu, the cold-faced King of Hell. The day they got married, Ningcheng's internet crashed, and countless men and women were heartbroken. After the wedding, Jiang Yu discovered that this Qiao heiress was nothing like the gentle, soft-spoken woman everyone described. First: The Qiao heiress who supposedly never raised her voice stood in a bar, holding a bottle in one hand and pressing down on a dice cup with the other. In a sharp tone, she called, "Eight sixes, reveal!" Second: The day Jiang Yu returned to Ningcheng from a business trip, music was blaring inside before he'd even entered the house. His gentle and elegant wife was clutching a microphone, standing on the sofa and singing with abandon. "..." Qiao Sui explained, "I was looking for inspiration. Just getting a little carried away with a song." Jiang Yu glanced at her, his tone casual. "You're too modest. Even a self-heating hot pot isn't as fired up as you." In Ningcheng, the Jiang family's young master, Jiang Yu, was famous as a cold-faced King of Hell. If there were bandits in the modern world, he'd surely be their leader. He showed no mercy in business, was rebellious and unruly, and lived a refined, celibate life. No ordinary person could catch his eye. On their wedding night, Qiao Sui signed a contract with him containing fifty clauses. One of them forbade crossing the line. Jiang Yu pointed to that clause and scoffed. "Unnecessary." Three months later, Qiao Sui received a huge sum of money from Jiang Yu. Before she could react, the man across from her lowered his head and kissed her. In the heady atmosphere, his hoarse voice came out indistinctly: "I've paid the breach-of-contract fee. It can't be too much to take things one step further, right?" A little scene: On the last Children's Day of her childhood, Qiao Sui thought his lips looked good, pinned him in a corner, stole a kiss, and ran. Years later, Qiao Sui finally understood that what goes around comes around. She'd only kissed his lips once back then, but he clung to her for the rest of her life. Jiang Yu: A sound investment. A sharp-tongued, devoted older man VS a sly little fox pretending to be harmless Cold-faced King of Hell Jiang VS a fussy little cheongsam designer 1. All workplace expertise comes from the internet and related books. 2. Read for fun. Those who demand rigorous accuracy, please steer clear. 3. If it's not to your taste, quietly move on. There's no need to tell me. 4. Hope you enjoy reading. 5. Weibo: Ying Shichun YSC The series novel is in my author column: "After Marriage, I Fell," the story of the older brother. Blurb: *Gentle, scheming Mr. Qiao X down-on-her-luck heiress* After disappearing for years, Ding Xiayi ran into Qiao Shiyi again at an investment banquet. Fleeing from creditors, she stumbled into a private room. In the darkness, Ding Xiayi clutched the corner of Qiao Shiyi's clothes. The once-spoiled heiress now looked like a little white rabbit waiting to be slaughtered. Tears glistening in her eyes, she begged him for help. She was nothing like the bright, beautiful Ding Xiayi in Qiao Shiyi's memories. Qiao Shiyi crouched down and wiped away a tear from the corner of her eye, but his voice remained calm and flat. "What do I get out of helping you?" Ding Xiayi gripped his clothes tighter and refused to let go. Sobbing, she asked him, "What do you need?" Qiao Shiyi's eyes lingered on her face. His heart clenched, and the clear spring in his eyes turned into a pool of spring warmth. "I don't need anything, except a wife." Rumor had it that Qiao Shiyi, head of the Qiao family, was ruthless and commanded the business world. Everyone who saw him had to keep their distance. Others said he had kept a longtime unrequited love hidden in his heart, though nobody knew who she was. Later, no one expected Qiao Shiyi to have a whirlwind marriage. When the news broke, people bet that the iron-handed Mr. Qiao had married for profit and would dump the woman within two months. The stakes kept growing. One day Someone saw Qiao Shiyi pushed down onto a sofa by Ding Xiayi in a bar, with sultry light shimmering between them. Ding Xiayi, flushed with drink, leaned close to his ear, her posture alluring and her voice lilting upward. "I want to do something exciting." Qiao Shiyi took off his silver-framed glasses and gently pinched her earlobe, leading her on. "I can think of something exciting." As he spoke, he lifted her chin. His warm breath brushed the tip of her nose, and his low, pleasant voice rumbled through the intimate atmosphere. "Would you like to kiss me?" Later, someone exposed the story about Qiao Shiyi's secret love to Ding Xiayi and warned her not to be fooled. That night, Ding Xiayi brought it up with Qiao Shiyi. He slipped an arm around her slender waist and pressed her against the mirror. "It's my fault. I've loved you, Xiazhi, for all these years but never dared to say it." Ding Xiayi rose on tiptoe and kissed his cheek to comfort him. Qiao Shiyi pointed to his own lips and coaxed, "Come on, kiss me here." #Every day after I stopped behaving like a decent person is delightful# #A little white rabbit grows up# #Mr. Qiao's self-conquest# Little tips: *Reunion after years apart, marriage first, love later* *A patient old fox pursues a little white rabbit pretending to be proper* *One true pairing, six-year age gap, doting father-type husband* Theme: To be added