The Cherished Rose

"It is the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so precious."

To Fu Siyan, Rong Xi was that rose.

Rong Xi was the eldest daughter of the Rong family, a top-tier beauty and heiress in high society. Her parents had spoiled her rotten since childhood, and she was willful and capricious, with every bit of princess syndrome imaginable.

To save her family's failing business, Rong Xi had no choice but to marry Fu Siyan, a powerful business tycoon: a refined and handsome man who was utterly clueless about romance and more than half a generation older than her.

The older man had no sense of fun and a terrible temper. When she felt wronged and wanted to cry, all he ever did was coldly say, "Rong Xi, wipe away your tears. I'm not your parents, and I won't indulge you."

Rong Xi was so stunned she stopped crying. Deep down, she swore that once she turned things around, she would make Fu Siyan work like an ox and a horse for her!

Everyone in their circle knew that Fu Siyan, the leading socialite of North City, had always been aloof and self-possessed. He was a heaven-blessed prodigy, born to be admired.

How could he possibly fall for a spoiled woman like Rong Xi, who made a scene at every turn? Even after she became the envy of everyone as Mrs. Fu, she was nothing but a wife in name.

Rumors that Rong Xi had been abandoned surfaced from time to time, and everyone waited to see her make a fool of herself.

At an auction, an unknown artist's oil painting sold for the astronomical price of 100 million.

A reporter nervously asked the buyer, Fu Siyan, "Mr. Fu, why did you pay such an outrageous price for a painting by a nobody?"

Fu Siyan lifted his eyes, his voice low. "To make my wife happy."

Everyone: ??!!!

So this famously cold and ruthless young tycoon was throwing money around just to make Rong Xi smile?

Later, Rong Xi appeared on a variety show, where the cast discussed how married couples got along.

Everyone turned to Rong Xi, the youngest person there and the only one who was married.

She answered lightly, "My wife sings, and my husband follows."

Netizens thought she was talking nonsense. After all, the Rong family now depended on the Fu family to survive, so Rong Xi was surely a pitiful little thing who had to walk on eggshells around Fu Siyan.

That is, until Fu Siyan showed up on set.

Rong Xi ordered him around with practiced ease:

"Fu Siyan, my feet hurt. Give me a foot massage."

"Fu Siyan, I want sweet-and-sour pork ribs on the dinner table tonight."

"Fu Siyan, carry me to the car."

The crew and the netizens were dumbfounded. Was this for real?

That night, Fu Siyan, president of the Fu Group, made his first public response: [It's not an act. The way we do marriage in our family really is: Mrs. Fu sings, and I follow.]

* A spoiled little princess who makes a scene at every turn x a domineering CEO who dotes on her

* A sweet, fluffy marriage-first-love-later romance / an extremely possessive, fatherly boyfriend

* Just a sweet romance, with only the tiniest hint of him chasing her after she leaves

* Both each other's first and only, six-year age gap, 20 and 26

* She loves acting out, he spoils her without question, spoiling first and falling in love later

Theme: Respect marriage