Marry First, Love Later: Becoming a Scum Gong

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Just as Dai Nai's contractual marriage to Di Li gets underway, she realizes that playing the part of a model wife is truly exhausting.

Sure, she doesn't have to do housework in a wealthy family. But no one mentioned that she'd have to put on a show of affection with her icy wife while also keeping up appearances!

Even if she really doesn't like her, couldn't she at least play along? And why does she have a gorgeous blonde foreign friend who looks so much like me? Am I just a stand-in? What a tired old trope!

And then she has to take a bullet for her, spend three months in the hospital, and come home only to get divorced. The more Dai Nai thinks about it, the angrier she gets, so she starts counting down the days until the divorce!

On the day they divorce, she leaves the words "scumbag top" behind and walks away in style.

Di Li: "What does 'scumbag top' mean?"

Underling: "You're a scumbag, and you're the top."

Friend: "Your little lover was so passionate about you, and she still ran away. Tsk, tsk."

Di Li: "She's my wife!!!"

To save face, Di Li returns to her home country to ask her ex-wife what a "scumbag top" is, only for the tables to turn. She is forced to sign a lover's contract with her darling wife and flaunt their affection in front of her rival.

Di Li: "... What? Aren't I the scumbag top?"

The funny part ends here

A story about a stiff, awkward scumbag top who isn't actually a scumbag, and a sweet, lively, strong-willed bottom who is not at all a pushover.

At heart, it's a contract marriage that turns into love, with a scumbag top and a feisty bottom, but without the usual tropes.

Same-sex marriage is legal where Di Li lives, but not where Dai Nai lives.

Theme: How do I put this? If you assume this is a scumbag-top-and-feisty-bottom story, you won't be happy. But if you don't like that kind of story, just think of it as a story where the beautiful wife is the top, and you'll enjoy it. That's what I did, anyway. (Author's note)