[Marriage First, Love Later] [Chasing His Wife to the Crematorium] [The Heroine Pretends to Be Weak]
Chu You is stunningly beautiful, her eyes bright and lively. She's the most famous beauty in Ren City, and widely regarded as the sharpest-tongued person around. Her ability to verbally eviscerate people is practically an art form.
A sudden business marriage turns Duan Shu and Chu You into the closest, yet most distant, people in each other's beds.
Outsiders don't know the details, and tease Duan Shu: "You've married a thorny rose. Just be sure she doesn't leave you covered in thorns and put the rest of us in danger, too."
Duan Shu smiled faintly and said under his breath, "A rose? Then I'll teach her how to behave."
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After they marry, Duan Shu provokes Chu You at every turn and goes out of his way to make things difficult for her. But she obeys his every word, as gentle as the heroine of a Qiong Yao melodrama.
Just as he begins to take their marriage seriously, a divorce agreement lands in front of him.
The sweet little flower has become a thorny rose. Her voice is resolute: "Mr. Duan, sign it."
It turns out she was gentle only because she couldn't be bothered.
At that moment, Duan Shu finally understands what it means to "teach someone how to behave," and learns firsthand what it's like to be pierced by a thousand thorns.
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Duan Shu always thought he'd married a spoiled heiress who cared about nothing but having fun. Then, at a charity auction, he saw an embroidered sunset masterpiece, coveted by a crowd of bidders, bearing Chu You's signature. Only then did he realize that the woman he'd married was a priceless treasure.
But this treasure has legs, and wants to run away.
[A scheming, calculating CEO who gets taught a lesson by his wife] x [A sharp-tongued, quick-witted rising star in the embroidery world who knows how to act]
Blurb written on 2020.05.12
Theme: Bickering lovers
