A Wedding Like the Old Days [Marriage Before Love]

[Marriage First, Love Later] [Six-Year Age Gap] [Abstinent Daddy Lowers His Guard for Love]

[Pure, Classically Beautiful Woman x A Powerful Figure in Beijing's Elite Circle]

A new Hanfu beauty named Song Tangshu had arrived at Queqiao Xian, a street themed around traditional Chinese culture. People said her guzheng playing was so captivating that audiences were utterly entranced.

Sadly, she always covered her face with a thin veil, and no one had ever seen what she really looked like.

After one of her performances, Song Tangshu was told that a distinguished guest from the capital was offering a high price to hear her play solo.

She put on her veil, cradled her guzheng, and calmly agreed.

Behind a screen, the man stood in a sharp suit, wearing delicate gold-rimmed glasses. He looked cultured and refined.

That was the first time she met Pei Xingyan.

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The next time she saw Pei Xingyan was at the city hospital.

Her grandmother was sick and, more than anything, worried about her granddaughter's marriage. Song Tangshu sat blankly in the hospital corridor when a pair of elegant handmade leather shoes appeared before her.

She raised her eyes. All she could see was the man's handsome, gentle face. "Miss Song, I need someone to marry."

To put her grandmother's mind at ease so she could focus on her treatment, Song Tangshu nodded. "All right."

Only after they left the Civil Affairs Bureau did she realize just how powerful Pei Xingyan was.

He came from the Pei family of Jingbei. At just twenty-eight, he had seized firm control of the family with an iron hand.

Song Tangshu knew she wasn't good at dealing with people and had always understood her place. She never intended to overstep, and simply planned to take the title of Mrs. Pei as agreed, help fend off his admirers, and leave peacefully when their three-year contract ended.

But on their wedding night, the man caught hold of her hands as she tried to take her blanket and sleep separately.

"You're already Mrs. Pei, Tangtang. Are you still going to hide from me?"

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Pei Xingyan, CEO of the Pei Group, always carried himself like a gentle, refined young nobleman. But he was known for being aloof and abstinent, cold-hearted and dispassionate. People outside the family said he would never fall in love with an ordinary woman in his life.

But lately, the reclusive Mr. Pei had been making frequent public appearances with the beauty who topped the rankings for traditional Chinese culture. He even used his main account to post a "Wife" comment during her livestream. The media were stunned: Was Mr. Pei actually a fan of the guzheng goddess?

That night, the Pei Group's official account posted an image with a caption:

The wedding ring on the delicate fingers of Song Tangshu as she plucked the guzheng strings was unmistakably the same design as Pei Xingyan's.

Pei Xingyan: I'm a fan of my wife, and she's also the woman I married properly and publicly. @GuzhengSongTangshu

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