Lawyer Zhou Wants to Turn Fake Romance into Real Love

My next book will be Playing Innocent. Please add it to your collection! 1) At the age of twenty-two, the sweet and sensible Situ Nian impulsively married a man she had met only once. Her new husband was Zhou Shaoxu, a rising star in legal circles, famous for his cool reserve and keeping people at a distance. One needed to appease their elders, the other needed a solution to an urgent problem. They agreed to stay out of each other's way. 2) Situ Nian was a bona fide night owl. She used the most expensive skincare products, stayed up until the early hours, and lived exactly as she pleased. Under the increasingly exasperated gaze of Zhou Shaoxu, a germaphobe with level-ten obsessive-compulsive disorder, Situ Nian could see her own "tragic" fate approaching: he would soon kick her out. But before she could wipe the smile off her face, she saw Zhou Shaoxu on the screen, having forgotten to turn off the projector. He was in the bathroom, on his phone, asking a friend what to do. Zhou Shaoxu: [What should I do if our agreement expires and I don't want to get divorced?] [If your amazing personality can't make her stay, then offer yourself up and become her devoted simp!] Situ Nian: "????" Wasn't he supposed to be a distinguished, self-possessed professional? Weren't they supposed to go their separate ways as soon as the time was up? 3) When Valentine's Day came around, Situ Nian wasn't expecting any gifts. After all, her husband was fake, the ceremony had been for show, and their marriage was in name only. Sure enough, when evening came, Zhou Shaoxu had empty hands. Fine, no present. But he had the nerve to come crawling over, too. Situ Nian wasn't having it and tried to push him away, but he grabbed her wrist and pressed it against his belt. His voice held a beguiling power: "Your Valentine's Day present. Be good and unwrap it yourself!" Reading Guide: 1. Pure romance, happy ending. 2. Both the male and female leads entered their marriage of convenience to accommodate their parents. They're both such dutiful children. 3. A warm, everyday-life story. Blurb for Playing Innocent: Marriage first, love later (one-sided on the heroine's part) // A battle of wits to consummate the marriage Straight-laced woman vs. loyal, scheming man Shen Zhongxing was the heir to Tong City's Zhengheng Group. As soon as he returned to the country, he was forced to meet his arranged marriage partner, Su Xinyu, the eldest daughter of the Su family. Su Xinyu was breathtakingly beautiful, but her meekness seemed to come from the same mold as every other woman's. She acted coy and affected, so he immediately decided to call off the wedding. But that night, at a bar, he ran into the same Su Xinyu he'd seen during the day, who had been wearing a pristine white dress and claiming she'd never set foot in a nightclub. Now she wore a low-cut red dress, alluring and bold. After witnessing Su Xinyu coldly brush off a man hitting on her, she said, "Get lost. That's one word. How many times do I have to say it?" His heart began to race uncontrollably. Later, he saw her tear into a fake-sweet socialite: "If you love arguing so much, why don't you go work at a construction site?" Shen Zhongxing: Affection +1 She ripped into a scumbag: "When a man loses interest, even his eyes stop working!" Shen Zhongxing: Affection +1+1... #Every day I'm falling even harder for my wife# #How do I stop being so charming? Help# * After learning she might be a fake heiress who had been switched at birth, Su Xinyu couldn't worry about saving face. She turned around and clung to Shen Zhongxing's leg, the very man she'd nearly rejected. Meeting his detached, indifferent gaze, she forced out a tear or two. "To be honest, I'm always saying the opposite of what I mean. The truth is, I fell for you at first sight. I can't see anyone else." Shen Zhongxing pushed up his glasses, his deep-set eyes smiling without a trace of warmth. And so the two of them began their "marriage of convenience," apparently one to shut their families up and the other to maintain her comfortable lifestyle. The well-born young ladies who had once been badly put down by Su Xinyu watched eagerly, betting on when she and Shen Zhongxing would divorce now that she had lost the Su family's protection and had nothing left to offer. But year after year passed, and whenever the couple appeared in public, they were just as loving as ever, perfectly in step and practically joined at the hip. At first, everyone was surprised. But then they caught sight of Su Xinyu's slender waist, too delicate to wrap a hand around, or the dark red marks appearing faintly on her neck, and smiled knowingly. She was simply using her looks to get what she wanted. * Every time Su Xinyu used her husband, her personal prop, to show off their love in public, she was plagued by worry. Over the years, she had tried every trick to turn down Shen Zhongxing's advances, including having her period nine times in a month, wearing braces for three years, developing a strange condition that made her convulse whenever someone hugged her, becoming intermittently mute, and claiming to be allergic to saliva. This time... She glanced at Shen Zhongxing, whose eyes looked so pitiful. She hardened her heart and lay down flat, starting another round of moral blackmail. "If you want a wife who's unhappy and sickly all the time, then go ahead!" Shen Zhongxing was stunned for a moment, then, quite unlike his usual self, leaned over her. Su Xinyu: "..." Why wasn't this working like before? Shen Zhongxing looked innocent, as if he had no choice. "I didn't want to. You were seducing me!" Su Xinyu looked down at her old-lady pajamas and felt wronged. "How? How was I seducing you? Tell me and I'll change, okay?" Shen Zhongxing smiled and kissed the corner of her eye. "You can't change." "Your breathing is seducing me!" Su Xinyu: "..." I can't change that! #Today I'm still making things up to get my wife into bed# Theme: Be brave enough to face your true feelings