Submission After Marriage

1.

Shu Zhanpeng, the richest man in Sucheng, is infamous for doting on his daughter to an absurd degree. Rumors abound in their social circle that Chairman Shu has prepared a ridiculously lavish dowry for his beloved daughter, Shu Yao: rare jewels, a private jet, a luxury yacht, a Pingcheng courtyard residence, a townhouse on New York's Upper East Side, and company shares are all just the beginning. Suitors arrive in an endless stream, nearly wearing down the threshold of the Shu family home, while Shu Yao's reputation for being spoiled and extravagant is every bit as formidable.

Everyone expected Shu Yao to carefully choose her future husband. Instead, the young heiress got married at lightning speed as soon as she graduated. Her wedding of the century cost hundreds of millions, and she even bought an old castle in England specifically for the ceremony. The bride price alone reached tens of billions.

Everyone envies Shu Yao, but only she knows how cold the heir to the Mu family of Pingcheng, the man she married, can be. When they first ran into each other at the airport, he was anything but welcoming. Before the wedding, he even laid down a long list of rules she had to follow.

Ugh, this man is so annoying!

But he's handsome! And super rich! And, as she got to know him, she discovered he had impeccable manners!

Besides, he was the one who asked for this marriage!

After weighing it all up, Shu Yao closed her eyes and married him.

2.

In the third year of their marriage, Shu Yao had finally had enough of their uneventful, stagnant relationship.

Three years ago, she had obeyed her parents and married Mu Jinchen, expecting an ordinary business alliance. Instead, she got a marriage in which she was practically a widow.

Less than two months after the wedding, Mu Jinchen went overseas to develop their international markets. She barely saw him all year, and Shu Yao came to feel that she and Mu Jinchen hardly knew each other at all.

On the day Mu Jinchen returned to the country, his wife showed up at the airport to pick him up for the first time ever.

They hadn't seen each other in three years. Shu Yao was just as he remembered her: a thoroughly naive, clueless girl with nothing to do.

But unlike three years ago, his wife, who had married him when she was barely twenty, had finally grown into her looks. Now, her beauty was impossible to ignore.

Under the astonished gaze of the flight crew, Shu Yao ran up the stairs to Mu Jinchen's private plane and threw herself into his arms like a gust of wind, then clung to him like a koala.

As the heir to a top-tier family, Mu Jinchen had always been a media darling.

The entertainment reporters staking out the scene to dig up gossip were ready to photograph his disgusted, world-weary expression as his wife clung to him. Instead, Mu Jinchen took Shu Yao by the waist of his own accord, bent down, and kissed her several times.

The media and Shu Yao: "…???"

./Slow burn / everyday life / lots of sweetness / happy ending/

./Spoiled, adorable heiress x refined scoundrel CEO / both from wealthy families/

./Marriage first, love later / 7-year age gap/

./Not an entertainment-industry story/

Theme: Hard times pass, and the road ahead is bright and beautiful