There Is No Such Thing as Divorce

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Author: You Bei Ya

Lin Ruobing's whirlwind marriage took everyone who knew her by surprise.

As the law firm’s prettiest and most charming woman, she was remembered as quiet, polite, hardworking, introverted, and dignified.

Until one day, her new husband pulled up outside the firm in a luxury car. Dressed in black, he looked tall and long-legged, with a sharp, unstoppable air about him. He lifted his chin slightly and called out to her in a cocky drawl, “Wifey.”

Everyone exclaimed, “So that’s Lin’s type!”

Lin Ruobing’s ex-boyfriend asked, “What type?”

A colleague replied, “Her husband’s name is Xiong Ran. Just hearing that name tells you he’s no ordinary man.”

The first time Xiong Ran met Lin Ruobing, he had much the same impression as her colleagues.

A fair-skinned woman, neither too young nor too old, sat properly beneath a glass window gleaming in the sunlight. When she saw him, she merely lowered her gaze and gave a slight nod, the corners of her lips lifting faintly.

He recalled the one requirement he’d told a friend he had before the blind date: she had to be filial.

His friend said, “Lin Ruobing is the most filial girl I know. She’s pretty, and she’s honest.”

Xiong Ran thought, Do people still use “honest” to describe women these days? Is that a compliment or an insult?

He asked his friend what Lin Ruobing was looking for.

His friend said her requirements were simple too: she just wanted someone independent.

Xiong Ran raised an eyebrow. “Isn’t she basically describing me?”

His friend urged him on. “You two are perfect for each other.”

As the blind date came to an end, Lin Ruobing asked, “Can I ask you something?”

Xiong Ran was puzzled, but grinned roguishly. “Go ahead.”

Lin Ruobing leaned toward him, her warm breath brushing his cheek. With a calm expression, she asked him something intimate.

By then, Xiong Ran had already formed a fixed impression of her: just as her name suggested, she was wooden and stiff.

But when she said those words, he realized he was wrong. A sweet warmth seeped through his skin and into him, like a strange current of electricity that instantly coursed through his whole body.

She didn’t get home until very late that night.

On the day they registered their marriage, Xiong Ran held a cigarette and said to her with a serious expression, “We may be getting married on a whim, but divorce is not an option.”

Lin Ruobing thought it over. “Then maybe we shouldn’t get married.”

Xiong Ran’s hand shook. Ash spilled down, scorching his shoe until it quickly turned black. He dragged out her name in disbelief. “Lin Ruobing?”

She, who usually showed little emotion, suddenly burst into laughter. Her voice was sweet and alluring. “I’m joking. There’s no such thing as divorce in my life either.”

In every intimate day and night that followed, Xiong Ran felt that marrying her was the best decision he had ever made.

Lin Ruobing felt the same way.

A roguish boss and a cool, beautiful lawyer

Marriage first, love later / Male lead’s perspective / A realistic, sweet romance about marriage / Both leads have no prior sexual experience

The title means that divorce is out of the question.

"Playing in the Rain"

Huang Xiyu saw You Ye outside the boys’ dormitory.

He was tall and long-legged, wearing a black windbreaker. Sunlight filtered through the leaves, dappling his shoulder. Huang Xiyu couldn’t help taking a few more looks at him.

Then he raised his chin slightly in greeting, turned, and walked over to a flashy convertible. There was another man and two women inside.

Her boyfriend told her that he was his rich second-generation roommate.

Later, during a trip to the countryside to gather material, Huang Xiyu went to the boys’ dorm to look for her boyfriend.

You Ye stood with his back to the stairs, looking relaxed as he told her:

Her boyfriend had gone to a hotel with someone else.

You Ye came from a wealthy family. He was arrogant and unruly, a true heaven-blessed favorite. The quiet and reserved Huang Xiyu never dreamed someone like him would get tangled up with her.

That is, not until after she broke up with his roommate.

On the night of a friend’s birthday, he used a game of Truth or Dare as an excuse to confess to her. His tone was casual, but his words were pointed. “Want to go out with me?”

As if suddenly remembering that he ought to be responsible, he added, “If you agree, just nod.”

Huang Xiyu got carried away and kissed You Ye, but she had only just broken up with her boyfriend and didn’t want people to think she’d immediately moved on to someone new.

She turned her face to the side, her eyes shimmering. She looked troubled, yet unexpectedly gentle. “I’m not looking to date anyone right now.”

“You kissed me.” You Ye’s eyelids drooped halfway as he spoke softly. “And you say you’re not interested?”

Huang Xiyu: “...”

What she didn’t know was that after she left, You Ye’s friend teased him with a grin.

“When did this happen?”

“Don’t tell me you already had your eye on her the last time you came to see me?”

A story about a guy coveting his roommate’s girlfriend, then waiting patiently for them to break up before stealing her away.

Both leads are sexually inexperienced / Both are single throughout their relationship

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