Coming soon: Indulging in Pleasure (Marriage Before Love). Add it to your collection! See the blurb below.
Shen Che never expected that the “grand gift” from the little girl he had protected and planned for over many years would be her leaving him without a second thought.
While he was away, she ran off faster than anyone.
That's fine. If you can run away, I can make you come back!
Reading note
1. They are pseudo-siblings, and are not registered in the same household.
Coming soon: Indulging in Pleasure (Marriage Before Love)
A refined, abstinent professor & a glamorous, unruly heiress
(I)
Ruan Tingyan, a rising young star, is known throughout the industry as a camera charmer and a national sweetheart. Her skin is as smooth as fine porcelain, and her figure is alluring. She won the Best Actress award at a young age, and in her three years since debut, she has had no dating scandals. To her fans, she is a one-of-a-kind treasure.
As long as she doesn't open her mouth and reveal her bold, wild, unruly nature, she's the most beautiful sight in the world.
Ruan Tingyan wholeheartedly agrees with the first half. After all, her marriage to Bo Siyan is all name and no substance. In their three years of marriage, the closest they have ever been was on that little red marriage certificate.
On the night she decided to get a divorce, she had a champagne tower set up to celebrate their impending singleness and dragged Bo Siyan along for drinks all the way to the bedroom. The next morning, the doorbell rang sharply.
The production crew of Your Heartbeat, a reality show about celebrity pretend dating, went live and showed up unannounced. Facing the dark camera lens, Ruan Tingyan stiffly hooked her arm around Bo Siyan's:
“That's right, this is the ordinary person who's about to be my partner on the show.”
(II)
As a renowned history professor at Jing University, Bo Siyan spends all his time immersed in academia. His students say he has no worldly desires and is a gentle bodhisattva on the verge of ascending to immortality.
No one in their circle thinks his marriage to Ruan Tingyan will work. Their personalities are worlds apart, and their values are completely different.
One of them learned from childhood to wonder whether a Dior fall-and-winter haute couture dress would go better with emerald earrings from Bulgari or Zambian emeralds.
The other started learning to read from An Introduction to Ancient Chinese History as soon as he could talk, skipped grades all the way through school, and became a doctoral advisor.
They were never cut from the same cloth. Sooner or later, they would tire of the pressure of this family-arranged marriage and choose to divorce and seek freedom.
Until the show Your Heartbeat aired.
Bo Siyan stood before a wall of bookshelves, impeccably dressed in a shirt, introducing the yellowed ancient texts that had long since fallen silent.
Off camera, a male celebrity from another team handed coffee to the alluring woman and took the opportunity to flirt with her.
Bo Siyan frowned, stepped forward, and pressed down on the man's wrist, blocking his probing gaze. His gentle expression turned faintly forceful. “My wife is allergic to coffee. Please keep your distance, sir.”
Fans: Aaaaaah! My ship, the abstinent professor x the enchanting beauty, is real!
Their friends: What does her coffee allergy have to do with him?!
[Bonus scene]
Before the show began, each pretend couple took a compatibility test.
Question: Write down the three things your partner likes most.
Everyone else: They glanced at each other, then wrote down whatever came to mind.
Ruan Tingyan: All kinds of books that can put you to sleep.
Bo Siyan: A 200-degree curling iron, 10-centimeter heels, and an orange night-light.
In the final episode, the guests had to write a letter to their past selves.
Ruan Tingyan: [Bo Siyan, how about I sneak you out of class and we go watch the last New Year's fireworks by the river?]
Bo Siyan: [Classmate Ruan, could we come home a little later after the last fireworks by the river that year?]
#MarriageBeforeLove
#TheMaleLeadHasBeenCarefullyPlanningAllAlong, #SecretLoveTurnsReal
Theme: Anything beautiful is worth waiting for
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The front part looks great, why is the ending so rushed?
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