Sleepy Weather

[Complete] [Secret Crush | Marriage First, Love Later] [My next story, Butterfly Mark, is now open for preorders~ Please add it to your collection, dear readers qvq]

Su Zhi saw Zhou Yanshi again after many years at a dinner three days ago, with both their families in attendance.

The gathering was practically a matchmaking dinner. He arrived late, his coat draped over his wrist, pulled out a chair, and apologized without a hint of urgency.

Su Zhi had never imagined this scene. In her mind, she and Zhou Yanshi were two parallel lines that could never cross.

He was like the moon hanging high above, distant, cool, bright, and dazzling. Then one day, it was suddenly placed right in front of you, and you were asked, "Will you reach out and take it?"

"What about you?" Their families had no objections to the marriage. Zhou Yanshi was asking her.

"...I don't object either." Su Zhi's heart pounded with fear, but she didn't hesitate. She reached for the moon.

He was being pressured by his parents, while she had her own unspeakable reasons.

Zhou Yanshi nodded and said, "I'll come visit your family another day."

"..."

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Zhou Yanshi had never imagined himself getting married.

But when he found out the woman was Su Zhi, he simply didn't turn her down as he usually would.

Everyone around him who knew what he was like thought this forced match wouldn't last.

That is, until one rainy day, someone happened to see Zhou Yanshi, normally so aloof and reserved, standing drenched at someone's door and coaxing gently, "Honey, let's go home."

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Years ago, Zhou Yanshi accidentally picked up a book. On the back page, someone had written, "I think I've fallen for Zhou Yanshi." The name on the cover was Su Zhi.

Years later, someone innocently erased the words "I think."

[Her secret feelings were like a dusky, dreamlike day. Someone happened to glimpse them, and after that, there was no turning back.]

A calculating, composed, lofty medical professor x a sweet stage-play actress

| Everyday romance, sc, HE

| Seven-year age gap / the female lead falls first / marriage first, love later

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Please add my upcoming story, Butterfly Mark, to your collection [Dear readers, give that little hand of yours a tap and add it to your collection qvq]

Lin Ni was eleven when she moved into the Zhou family home. Alone in the world, she came to think of every member of the Zhou family as her own kin.

Especially her older brother, Zhou Zeyu, even though he always wore a cold expression.

He had stood up for her before.

"If they bully you, why not tell them my name?"

She simply didn't want to cause him trouble.

Later, she foolishly fell for Chen Jing, the wild and carefree eldest son of the Chen family.

In a bar booth, she watched another girl light his cigarette for him.

She wrote him a love letter, but someone threw it in the trash. In the middle of the night, she sat curled up on the balcony and cried in secret.

Zhou Zeyu came downstairs for a drink and saw her. His voice was cold. "Do you really like him that much?"

Later, Chen Jing regretted everything. One night, dead drunk, he called Lin Ni. A cool, refined man's voice answered: "Calling my little sister this late? Should I report you for harassment?"

Chen Jing scoffed with a sneer. "So you do know she's your little sister?"

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Lin Ni later agreed to marry Zhou Zeyu because their elders arranged it, and because she wanted to repay his kindness.

Zhou Zeyu was cold and unfeeling. Their original relationship made it possible for this marriage of convenience to remain stable and last.

It would also keep the Zhou family's vast fortune from going to outsiders.

Lin Ni said, "Brother, you don't have to worry about me. Don't worry, I won't interfere in your personal life."

"Mm." Zhou Zeyu gave a faint smile and readily agreed.

That was the true nature of their marriage.

But then, for some reason, everything changed. They had agreed not to interfere in each other's lives, but if she got drunk and stayed out too late, he would angrily drag her home.

He would also kiss her like a madman and demand her.

Lin Ni had never understood him, until one day she knocked a book off the shelf in his study. On the flyleaf, it said: Ni Ni, stop liking him. Why don't I marry you instead?

[Lin Ni has a butterfly mark on her shoulder. Zhou Zeyu wants it to flutter freely in his palm.]

Theme: If you have something to look forward to, you'll have something to gain.