Fairy-Tale Aftereffects

* First Love Sweetheart x Devoted Puppy

* No Getting Back Together After the Breakup / Wife-Chasing Crematorium / Second Male Lead Takes the Crown

1.

After her parents met with disaster, Cen Zhi was sent to live with the Cheng family. From the age of six to sixteen, during the years when she was a stuttering, insecure girl, it was Cheng Song who pushed open the tightly shut door and came toward her against the light, taking her hand.

"Stay behind me. They won't dare bully you."

Cen Zhi followed him for seven years.

When Cheng Song dated, she helped cover for him.

When Cheng Song pursued someone, she wrote his love letters for him.

In this secret crush that could never see the light of day, she faithfully played the part of an onlooker.

The young master of the Cheng family was an incorrigible playboy, yet a quiet, obedient little tail always followed behind him.

Everyone could see what Cen Zhi wanted.

Everyone except Cheng Song, who remained unmoved.

"I've thought of her as my little sister since we were kids." He crushed out his cigarette, his tone casual. "I just hope she doesn't get any ideas and knows her place."

Later, Cen Zhi really did give up.

When news broke that the Cheng family's adopted second daughter was to marry into the Xie family, the whole social circle was thrown into an uproar.

Cheng Song got blackout drunk in the middle of the night. His eyes reddened as he called her by her childhood nickname into his phone: "...When are you coming home, Zhizhi?"

A lazy, refined man's voice came through the receiver. "Calling my wife at one in the morning?"

He asked politely, "Sir, are you all right?"

2.

The two most outrageous things Cen Zhi had ever done were falling for Cheng Song and proposing to Xie Fengzhou.

"The Cheng family needs an alliance through marriage, and you're the best choice." She handed over the marriage agreement, feigning composure. "We both get what we need."

The man across from her propped his chin on his hand and lowered his eyes to her trembling fingertips. After a moment, he smiled at leisure. "Sure."

He signed his name, his peach-blossom eyes curving like a crescent moon. He was a big bad wolf in sheep's clothing, pretending to be harmless. "It's a pleasure doing business with you."

Much later, while sorting through her high school belongings, Cen Zhi found an anonymous love letter with yellowed edges.

It was from Xie Fengzhou, when he was eighteen.

At the end, it read: A mon premier amour

To my first love

- Every heart skips a beat by walking straight into its own trap.

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Reading Guide:

◎ One-on-one romance / Happy Ending / Both leads have only ever loved each other / The second male lead is the true male lead

◎ A playboy tries to reform, but fails to win his wife back

◎ The heroine was a little stutterer in school, but recovers later

◎ The heroine marries first and falls in love later; the hero's secret crush comes true

◎ [Warning!!!]: A fluffy, brainless romance, lots of fictional details, unrealistic logic, all related information was researched

◎ Synopsis screenshotted on 2022.6.9, revised on 2022.8.21

◎ Current anti-theft ratio: 90% for 72 hours

Theme: Don't focus only on what you can't have. Take a look at what you already have.