With a Marriage Contract

[Steadfast, gentlemanly wealthy-family daddy × a delicate, Lin Daiyu-esque parasitic flower]

[Size difference | Marriage first, love later]

Blurb:

Chi Yuning’s marriage to Wen Shiqian began with jealousy toward her two cousins, along with a little admiration for him.

When the elders remarked, “Both your cousins made good marriages,” she had only just started working, but rushed into marriage in a panic and married Wen Shiqian after someone arranged the match.

Wen Shiqian is the head of the prominent Wen family in the capital, a man of impeccable character and bearing. After leaving the military, he became even more steady and composed. He not only wields great power within the group, but is also a visiting professor at a century-old university.

Chi Yuning thinks he must have reached the age to settle down and needed a gentle, virtuous wife to bear his children, which is why he chose her, a preschool teacher.

But she has always kept three secrets from Wen Shiqian.

First, she has a scandalous past involving being forced to model for revealing photographs.

Second, after spending a day and a night in the freezing river, her periods became irregular, and her chances of conceiving are slim.

Third, she has an ex-boyfriend who is kind-faced but cruel at heart, and he continued to harass her after she got married. She isn’t the blank slate Wen Shiqian thinks she is.

Put bluntly, she deceived him into marrying her.

These dark, contemptible thoughts make her feel inexplicably guilty whenever she faces Wen Shiqian.

When the truth comes out, she expects Wen Shiqian to be angry. Instead, he comforts her: “You did make a mistake. The mistake was thinking so little of yourself.”

Whenever someone sneers and asks, “What kind of people get married these days?” a stubborn light shines in her eyes as she answers in her heart: People like me.

Theme: Love can fill someone living in despair with hope.