Sleeping Through Summer

Complete. Weibo: @Zhu Qinglang

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Shen Zhao got married to a man she had barely met, the son of a family friend.

She thought they would live together with mutual respect, like strangers passing in the night.

Then, one day, a year after the wedding, she suddenly realized that something about this man was off.

It seemed he was deliberately trying to seduce her.

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Shen Zhao had been unable to sleep for two or three days because she couldn't find inspiration for her painting.

"Want me to help?"

Just as she sighed, the man, whose face usually wore a gentle smile, walked out.

His black shirt clung to his chest. A few buttons at the collar had been casually undone, revealing his prominent Adam's apple and his fair, tempting collarbones.

"H-How would you help?"

She was so captivated that she swallowed without thinking.

Song Li bent down toward her, his warm breath dancing across her eyelids.

"How about I model for you, for free?"

Shen Zhao: !!?

Did he not know she'd been studying the human body lately?

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Ever since they got married, Song Li had always thought Shen Zhao liked men like Song Yu: gentle, polite, and restrained.

But after spending a year alone in their empty home, it was during a chance encounter that he learned from Shen Zhao herself that her taste had changed long ago.

Shen Zhao: Actually, I don't mind someone being a little clingy.

Song Li: So I spent the whole year pretending for nothing?

[You don't have to be like anyone else, because I love only you.]

-Female lead falls in love after marriage / male lead has been plotting for a long time

-Painter x CEO / cold as steel x flirtatious schemer

-The final line is adapted from Pablo Neruda's poem, "You are unlike anyone, because I love you."

-Synopsis saved on July 11, 2021

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