A Gentle Marriage

Next story, Kissing the Stuffy Daddy, starts in October. Please add it to your favorites! Blurb: Rugged older man x gentle illustrator Lu Yan is the man every woman in Nancheng dreams of. Born into a wealthy family and strikingly handsome, he would be the perfect catch, if he weren't engaged to someone in the Gu family. The Gu family has two daughters. The older sister, Gu Xiang, is unremarkable and dull. She teaches art at a high school. The younger sister, Gu Qin, is a star in her own right. A beauty who graduated from a prestigious university, she has been spoiled since childhood and is deeply adored by Mrs. Gu. Everyone expects Lu Yan to marry the gorgeous Gu Qin. To their surprise, he chooses her plain, unremarkable older sister, Gu Xiang. Later, a group of childhood friends make a bet about when their stoic, unromantic captain will get divorced. Then one day, on the Gobi Desert in the Great Northwest, with yellow sand filling the sky, the man gets out of a jeep. Dressed casually in camouflage pants and a black T-shirt that shows off his tall, muscular frame, he looks down at her. "Are you cold?" "...A little." The young woman is pale, like a pear blossom beaten by the rain. With a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth, he takes off his jacket and drapes it around her. He adjusts the collar and wraps his bronze-colored hand around her small, soft one, his voice low and husky. "Good girl. Let's go home." 1. The author visited Dunhuang in 2018, but got most of her knowledge from encyclopedias. Romance is the main focus, with marriage as a theme. Weibo: @Jinjiang Qiaoqisha Kissing the Stuffy Daddy is an upcoming story, launching in October. Xia Ling is a cool, sexy beauty and an extremely practical woman. Her family's fortunes have taken a turn for the worse in recent years, so she pretends to be sweet and innocent and marries an older man from a wealthy circle. He was born into a prominent family, with generations of wealth behind him. After years in the cutthroat business world, he's a true big shot with ruthless methods, and nearly fifteen years older than her. Over 190 cm tall, with a quarter German ancestry, broad shoulders, long legs, eight-pack abs, and skin bronzed by the sun, he's the very picture of a rugged, mature, powerful, wild Daddy. A Daddy among Daddies. Xia Ling is fairly satisfied with marrying him. But she never expected married life to be so disappointing! He's stuffy, old-fashioned, domineering, and traditional... Because she's young and "delicate, quiet, soft, and easy to bully," he'd rather... than touch her! He won't even let her look at him! A month later, her best friend calls to ask how things are going. Xia Ling has had enough. She shakes her head mournfully. "It's no good." "The old man might just be too old. He really can't perform." "Nothing I do works. He's practically a living corpse. You know what I mean?" The more she talks, the more devastated she gets, until she's practically in tears. "When I think that this is how the rest of my life will be, I just want to bash my head against a wall." * Then, on a dark and windy night, after the big shot helps her resolve a family crisis, she wonders whether to divorce him for the sake of her happiness in the years to come. She accidentally wanders into the master bedroom adjoining her own. The curtains are half drawn. A streak of clear moonlight falls across the man's face, half-lit and half-shadowed. He leans back casually in an armchair, like a powerful, graceful leopard after a successful hunt. His lean muscles are outlined beneath his white shirt, the fabric stretched over his smooth, solid build. His long legs are crossed carelessly, a dark belt buckle visible. Partially open... Xia Ling's eyes: o.o -> 0.0!! Was this before or after...? If it was after, then that was way too... Xia Ling senses something is off, and a little frightening, so she hurriedly offers a quiet explanation. "I came to discuss Haldar... no, Godard... Hegel with you." Fu Tingyun: ... "I'm sorry, big shot. I can't keep this act up." Xia Ling sets aside all the books and discs and bows respectfully. To marry him, she'd spent a month pretending to be an artsy, demure, delicate, talented young woman. She just can't keep it up anymore. "Honestly, the only one I know is Tengger." Fu Tingyun gives a faint laugh and lowers his head to light a cigarette. His voice is deep and husky. "I know." In the darkness, The man approaches. She hears the crisp sound of her bra clasp being undone. His belt buckle closes around her wrist. "Me too." The man gently lifts her chin, his voice low, rough, and passionate. Wait, who told her he liked artsy women? He's old-fashioned, but that doesn't mean he's old-fashioned about this. * 1. A domineering, old-fashioned, traditional, ultra-masculine Daddy, a beast of a man beneath his suit and shirt, but also a doting Daddy who adores her alone and cooks for her. 2. Married-life romance. The heroine is 20, the hero 33. The big shot has been plotting this for a long time. Both are each other's first love and each other's first partner (though Daddy is older, he's old-fashioned and this is his first time falling for someone). Theme: To be added