[Marriage first, love later | 15-year age gap | Both are each other's first]
The Shen family of Xicheng and the He family, a top-tier wealthy clan in Jingzhou, arranged a marriage years ago. But the engagement was put on hold because the Shen family had yet to have a daughter. By the time the two families finally had a boy and a girl, the only marriageable man left in the He family was its 35-year-old unmarried head, He Shuchen.
The Shen family's daughter had just turned twenty, still an innocent and carefree young woman. Marrying her to He Shuchen seemed rather unsuitable.
But the engagement could not simply be canceled, and the Shen family's eldest daughter, Shen Yunong, threatened to kill herself rather than marry into the He family.
Her parents couldn't bear to see their daughter suffer, and eventually planned to discuss ending the engagement with the He family. While they were desperately searching for a way to call it off, their younger daughter, Shen Xianyu, quietly raised her hand. "How about I marry him?"
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Shen Xianyu's dream is to live a carefree life, eating well, sleeping well, and spending freely, becoming a beautiful layabout, a fish content to lie flat.
She hears that women who marry into the He family live the most carefree lives as wealthy wives, so Shen Xianyu marries into the family without hesitation, hoping to lie flat in an even more powerful household.
On their wedding night, Shen Xianyu sits on the bright red wedding bed and nervously looks at her new husband, a dignified and elegant man, tall and composed. She quietly asks him to confirm once more, "If I marry you, I really won't have to worry about anything or do anything?"
He gazes at her and answers, "Mm."
Shen Xianyu sighs with relief, then raises her hands and begins to undress. "Then let's get started."
But just as she undoes the first button, the man's long, pale fingers stop her.
She looks up in astonishment.
He Shuchen says, "I won't touch you."
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Later, he revises what he said on their wedding night:
"If you marry me, there are only two things you need to worry about and do."
"The bed. Me."
A beautiful layabout of a young lady x a composed older man
P.S. He really is an older man, but he's handsome, a mature and charming older man, hahaha.
Theme: Stay positive and work hard.
