The Winter God's Garden

[Super-sweet upcoming novel in my collection: Sweet Persimmon, marriage first, love later | aloof and refined x soft and sweet girl]

[Marriage first, love later | Secret crush comes true]

1.

Lu Xuehe doesn't expect much from married life.

As long as her marriage benefits her family and gets under the skin of the Song family, that's good enough for her.

"Whether he's handsome or in love with you doesn't matter," she tells her best friend.

Her friend asks, "Your husband isn't handsome?"

"He is."

"And he doesn't love you?"

"That part's true."

Lu Xuehe answers without hesitation.

2.

Lu Xuehe is a famous streamer on a certain livestreaming platform. She has no friends in real life, and her only close friend is the top donor in her livestream.

Her friend is beautiful, kindhearted, and successful. Her only flaw is that she's a bit of a lovesick fool.

Whenever she mentions her partner, she turns into a lovesick whiner:

"He doesn't love me at all."

"He has no idea how much I love him."

Lu Xuehe tries to talk sense into her. "What's so great about that clueless shut-in who does nothing but play games? Find someone else already."

Her friend sighs. "I can't let him go."

3.

Lu Xuehe's husband, Mu Lingnan, is devastatingly handsome and proud. At a young age, he became head of the Mu family.

To outsiders, he's aloof and ascetic, dispassionate and self-possessed, yet decisive and ruthless in business.

Lu Xuehe thinks so too, except for the aloof and ascetic part.

Until one day, she comes across Mu Lingnan's account on a certain livestreaming platform.

His username is exactly the same as her best friend's.

What's more, he's also the top donor in Lu Xuehe's livestream.

Lu Xuehe: I'm losing it.

Some people are your husband in public and your best friend in private.

Sweet Persimmon, marriage first, love later | aloof and refined x soft and sweet girl

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1.

Fu Lingbai, head of the Fu family, is handsome and elegant, yet cold and indifferent. None of his countless admirers can catch his eye.

Even Su Youtang, who rarely mingles with the rich second-generation crowd, has heard of his reputation for avoiding women.

When word gets out that the Fu and Su families are arranging a marriage, everyone expects their life together to be loveless and passionless.

Even so, when work requires Su Youtang to get unusually close to another man, she still chooses to tell her husband first.

The man looks at her, his expression and tone unchanged. "You mean you're going to a nightclub to sketch?"

She explains, "They said the men I draw have no sex appeal, so..."

"Sex appeal."

He rolls the words around in his mouth. His low, lazy voice turns slightly husky.

"Come here. I'll teach you."

2.

Fu Lingbai agreed to marry into the Su family to appease his family.

Miss Su is lovely and adorable, but she's not his type.

At first, he thinks it will be enough for them to treat each other with respect.

Later, he decides that perhaps marriage has its merits after all.

Then, one night, sitting alone in his study, he stares at a scrap of paper covered in names and questions where his once-prized rationality, composure, and self-restraint have gone.

The butler comes to announce, "Madam is home."

Fu Lingbai gets up, lets out a heavy breath, straightens his clothes, and walks to the bedroom door.

Knock, knock.

The door opens.

For the first time, the pampered young master of the Fu family speaks with such humble desperation:

"Tangtang, can I come back to bed with you tonight?"

Theme: Strive to improve and become a better version of yourself.