Crossing the Line

[Chapter 66 was an accidentally posted extra chapter. You can read it for free on Weibo at @Ban Jiang Xia]

[An early, immature work with some genuine logic bugs. Please go easy on me.]

This story: How to Get Your Wife to Cross the Line Willingly / His Unrequited Love Comes True, She Falls in Love After Marriage / A Cliched, Sweet Little Romance

[Gentle, deceptively composed Cen Chuyu x Proud, genuinely tsundere Xu Zhuo]

In the second year of Cen Chuyu's marriage to Xu Zhuo, they could count on their fingers the number of times they had seen each other. Everyone in Shencheng knew their marriage was a business arrangement.

So, at Xu Zhuo's birthday party, he appeared in a perfectly tailored suit, a charming young woman on his arm. As the two of them walked toward the guests, everyone held their breath, waiting to see how Cen Chuyu would react.

But Cen Chuyu merely took a slow sip of wine, her expression unchanged.

When Xu Zhuo brought his female companion over to her, Cen Chuyu reached out to stop them.

Poised and graceful, she smiled and glanced at the woman beside Xu Zhuo.

"Be safe tonight, will you?"

"Should I head back to Qianhai, then, and give you two some space?"

Everyone: ...?

Later, amid wavering lights and dim shadows, no one noticed Xu Zhuo take Cen Chuyu by the wrist and whisper in her ear, "Should I remind you that you're Mrs. Xu?"

Cen Chuyu didn't pull away. Instead, a smile played on her lips.

"Then should I remind Mr. Xu..."

"That this marriage expires in a year?"

After the birthday party, the female companion walked up beside Xu Zhuo, smiling innocently.

"Hey, bro, it seems like your wife doesn't really care about you."

Xu Zhuo ground out the glowing end of his cigarette, raked a hand through the hair on his forehead, and snapped irritably, "Shut up."

As if I needed you to tell me.

This is driving me crazy : (

[Cen Chuyu, who keeps her promises and never crosses the line by even half a step x Xu Zhuo, who can't figure out what he needs to do to get his wife to cross the line]

Reader's Guide

1. Contract marriage, fall in love after marriage, one-on-one romance, both leads' first sexual partners

2. I welcome any constructive criticism. Please don't insult me.

3. The female companion is Xu Zhuo's biological younger sister :)

Theme: Be patient, but know how to seize an opportunity.