Love After Marriage

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Uno:

Two weeks after going to the countryside for a field study, Xia Mian and her colleagues are sent to the hospital after being poisoned by toxic mushrooms at their farewell dinner.

She doesn't remember the details. She only remembers her friend saying that day she'd thought she was a panda, grabbed a cloth doll from a little kid, and desperately shouted for the doctors to save her child.

She'd also said she was a national treasure, and that anyone who refused to save them was breaking the law.

When it looks like no one is really going to save her, she kneels on the ground and wails about how cold and cruel the world is. Just as everyone is at a loss, a doctor in a white coat, with a cool and striking air, hurries out.

The eyes behind her gold-rimmed glasses seem dangerous as she pinches Xia Mian's cheek and asks who she had an illegitimate child with.

Xia Mian is shocked. She slaps the ground and says how dare the doctor insult her like that. She swears she'll sue her and file complaints until she's ruined!

Only later does she discover that the doctor is the wife she married two weeks ago.

Deux:

The second time their families officially meet, Xia Mian and her blind date go straight to the Civil Affairs Bureau and get married. Both sets of parents are pleased with the match. Her wife comes from a wealthy family, and she's beautiful and refined. In every way, Xia Mian seems to have married above her station.

Less than two months after getting their marriage certificate, they move into their new home, and Xia Mian starts to have some complaints. It's nothing else: the marital duties she has to fulfill are so demanding that they seriously affect her sleep.

After she's caught dozing off at work yet again and gets a concerned talking-to from her boss, Xia Mian thinks it over carefully and decides to talk things out with her wife.

That evening, Xia Mian cooks a whole table of dishes herself. Her wife comes home, looks a little surprised, washes her hands, and sits down to try a few bites.

Xia Mian holds her breath and quickly explains what she wants. After a while, with no answer, she sneaks a glance up.

Her wife elegantly wipes her mouth and looks at her too. Her red lips part as she says, unhurriedly, "You can just talk to me about this directly. You don't need to threaten me by cooking."

Xia Mian's brain freezes for a few seconds. She tries a bite of her own cooking and spits it out.

Trois:

During the second semester of her first year of high school, Xia Mian is seated next to a new transfer student. Her seatmate is beautiful and elegant, with a lovely personality.

They sneak snacks during class, whisper to each other, read comics and novels, and nap. After school, they go to the arcade together, and at night they play video games together at home. They even copy the same homework.

At the time, Xia Mian thinks of her as her "soulmate."

But after exams, Xia Mian ranks last in the class, while her seatmate ranks first in the whole grade. Then Xia Mian cries and transfers schools. Much later, she remembers that this girl's name is exactly the same as her wife's:

Yu Langqing.

* Marriage first, love later

* May lean toward everyday life

* Gentle, obedient little ray of sunshine x slightly germaphobic orthopedic surgeon

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She Added Me Back After I Deleted the Late-Night Snack Stall Owner:

After being kept awake at night by how broke she is, He Qingxi opens her budgeting app and starts reviewing where all her monthly earnings have gone.

She never would have guessed. When she looks, her whole world falls apart.

Her monthly take-home pay after tax is 8,800 yuan. Two thousand goes to her mortgage, 800 to her dog, and of the remaining 6,000, a full 4,000 has gone to food...

And she really does mean food: barbecue, hot pot, little cakes, milk tea, snacks, and so on. The biggest expense of all is listed in the budgeting app under just five characters: "Tonight's Leisure Bar."

He Qingxi remembers. It's a late-night snack shop that opens at seven every evening. The owner posts tempting food photos on her Moments whenever the shop opens, along with customer reviews and photos. He Qingxi often can't resist and places an enthusiastic order.

The owner also occasionally posts glimpses of her daily life: mirror selfies at the gym showing off her abs, selfies on mountain peaks with her collarbones still damp from the climb, and photos on vacation showing off the logo of her luxury car and the name of the toll station she's at. In other words, not only is the shop's late-night food delicious, its owner is also disciplined, beautiful, and rich.

When He Qingxi opens WeChat and tallies up her conversations with the owner, she discovers that in the year since adding her, she's spent over 10,000 yuan on her and gained ten pounds.

For the sake of her weight and her wallet, He Qingxi steels herself and deletes the owner.

She thinks her wallet will surely get fatter as she loses weight. But the next day, the owner suddenly adds her back and sends a short message: "Changed your taste? Got a new boss?"

At that moment, He Qingxi inexplicably feels like she's been caught cheating: she often visits one particular shop, but one day the owner catches her going to a different one.

Still, to explain herself, He Qingxi adds her back and takes the initiative to explain that she'd only deleted her because she wanted to lose weight.

Owner: "I can sell you diet meals."

He Qingxi: "?"

A diet meal for herself at eleven at night?

Theme: Always be passionate, always love life, and be your own sunshine.