A Promised Year

[Coming next in the author's column: White Daydreams of the Starry River, with a refined, gentle hero and a cool, socially anxious heroine. Please add it to your to-read list QAQ]

[Synopsis]

Ye Zhinian was cold and taciturn. Hailed as a child prodigy since he was young, he planned to do nothing in life but research. Even his parents had given up on the idea that he would ever marry.

Cheng Jiaqi was eccentric, doing whatever she pleased, domineering and unreasonable... She was the very antithesis of the sort of daughter-in-law wealthy families wanted.

Yet when Ye Zhinian returned to China, he brought back not only world-renowned achievements, but also his new wife, Cheng Jiaqi.

He cherished her in the palm of his hand, built her a magnificent castle, and made her the envy of everyone.

Even though spending money, being willful, and spending money while being willful were all she knew how to do.

Opinions of Cheng Jiaqi in their social circle were sharply divided. Those who liked her said she was genuine. Those who disliked her were sure that, with her lawless personality, Ye Zhinian would dump her sooner or later, leaving her penniless and sending her crawling back to the countryside to fish.

Under ordinary circumstances, Cheng Jiaqi rarely heard such opinions.

One reason was that those people didn't dare cross Ye Zhinian, so they only whispered about her behind her back.

The other was that they couldn't beat Cheng Jiaqi and were afraid she'd hit them.

Jiang University invited internationally renowned biotech expert Ye Zhinian, known as "Professor Ye," to give a speech at its centennial celebration.

His speech was concise, totaling fewer than eight hundred Chinese characters, the standard length of a school essay.

Afterward, the Q&A proceeded in an orderly fashion. The students chosen to ask questions had all been arranged by the university, so there was no chance of anyone asking something inappropriate.

Unexpectedly, Professor Ye didn't follow the script. He called on a woman who wasn't on the list.

She took the microphone, smiling with an unmistakable meaning in her eyes. "Professor Ye, I remember you said at the CL-2 launch two years ago that CL-2 would never have come into existence without your wife. So I'd like to ask: in your heart, which matters more, your wife or your research career?"

Ye Zhinian answered without hesitation. "Research is my life."

Amid the audience's murmurs of disappointment, his gaze fell on the woman beside the student. The cool sharpness in his eyes softened like a spring breeze.

"My wife is dearer to me than life."

Reader's guide:

A cool genius who dotes on his wife like mad × a beautiful, flamboyant heroine with a maxed-out combat ability and two very different sides

The leads are each other's one and only, body and soul. The plot doesn't need to make sense, so feel free to read without thinking too hard. All professional knowledge is made up for the story, because I couldn't come up with the real stuff. It's just a short story about a couple doting on each other in their everyday lives~

Theme: Love means giving to each other