Longing for Jiao

1. When Xu Jiaoyi learned she was expected to marry a man she didn't know, she went on a trip, feeling stifled and resentful. During that trip, she and a man got themselves into a complicated situation.

After the trip, they went their separate ways, and Xu Jiaoyi put the man out of her mind.

On the day she met her arranged-marriage partner, Yan Qi, Xu Jiaoyi was horrified to find that the man was there too. His name was Yan Younan, and Yan Qi called him Third Uncle. Xu Jiaoyi's legs went weak. Just as she tried to sneak away, she ran into the man's amused, flirtatious eyes.

Later, an accident broke off the arranged marriage. As everyone went their separate ways and headed home, Yan Younan pulled Xu Jiaoyi into the Yan family's study.

With her back to Yan Younan and his strong arm wrapped around her waist, she heard him say with an amused smile, "Since we already shared that brief romance, it wouldn't be appropriate for you to marry my nephew. Why not be with me instead?"

2. Yan Younan, the Yan family's third uncle, is known in their circle as an ascetic. Despite his immense fortune, worth hundreds of billions, and his captivating looks that make women stop in their tracks, he lives a life of abstinence. For over a decade, he hasn't kept a woman by his side.

Yan Qi worries that his third uncle will end up alone and destitute. After much hesitation, and risking a scolding from Yan Younan, he brings over a beautiful socialite who's completely smitten with him, planning to force her on Yan Younan.

Nervously, he knocks on the door of Yan Younan's private bedroom. When the door opens, Yan Younan looks utterly exhausted, with two buttons of his shirt undone and a trace of blood at the corner of his lips. He looks up, his voice dark and cold, as if he'd been interrupted in the middle of something: "What is it?"

Before Yan Qi can say anything, a blushing beauty rushes out from behind Yan Younan. Her lips are swollen, and she runs out of the villa without looking back.

Yan Qi recognizes Xu Jiaoyi. He stands there, stunned, then meets Yan Younan's insincere smile. "Well, I'd finally managed to coax her into the bedroom, and you scared her off. Yan Qi, Yan Qi, you're really such a wonderful nephew."

*Love after marriage, so sweet it melts your heart

*Sweet, charming high school teacher vs. roguishly handsome, scheming executive CEO

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Jiang Tao married thirty-year-old Ji Sinian when she was twenty-two.

At twenty-two, Jiang Tao had fair, delicate skin, a great figure, and a pretty face. She was always followed by a crowd of admirers.

At thirty, Ji Sinian lived a disciplined life and kept everything proper. He always buttoned his shirt right up to the top and never did anything out of line. His life was so dull and boring that his old-fashioned ways had driven away a whole crowd of admirers.

After marrying Ji Sinian, Jiang Tao acted as if she couldn't stand him. Whenever she met up with her girlfriends, she always had one thing to say:

"Ji Sinian? If it weren't for that face, I would've gone through with the divorce ages ago."

Eight times out of ten, whenever Jiang Tao repeated this, Ji Sinian heard about it.

After hearing it so many times, someone asked Ji Sinian, "What's it like to have a beautiful wife who doesn't love you and slanders you outside every day?"

At the time, Ji Sinian was in a lecture hall, copying course materials onto his computer.

The student who asked seemed to voice what every girl wanted to know. The spacious lecture hall fell silent.

Ji Sinian didn't answer. He continued copying his materials meticulously, but in his mind he was picturing Jiang Tao last night, flushed red and soft as water as she snuggled into his arms.

He couldn't answer that question.

Because he'd realized that Jiang Tao loved him.

1. Secret crush after marriage

2. Photographer × university professor

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