Wen Ning didn’t return to the Wen family until she was eighteen. As the least favored of the younger generation, she knew exactly why, and understood all too well how difficult the road ahead would be.
At twenty, she accepted her family’s arrangement and got engaged to the second son of the Yan family.
After the ceremony, Yan Zhengming tossed aside the ring. “It was just for show. We were only playing around.”
After he left, she picked up the ring by her feet and rubbed her aching ankle, muttering, “...You’re not the one I want to marry anyway.”
As for the person she wanted to marry... the third uncle of her playboy fiance, Yan Ting Shen, was much more to her liking.
But he was already married, and she had no say in a major life decision like marriage.
Only later did she learn that his marriage was a misunderstanding.
Yan Zhengming got caught up in a scandal, and both the Wen and Yan families expected her to deal with it.
The day of the press conference, the sky was overcast. Soon thunder and lightning filled the air, as gloomy as she felt.
She wanted to return to the life she’d had before, even if it meant going hungry and sleeping rough.
Suddenly, the door was pushed open, and her devastated expression unexpectedly met a pair of dark eyes.
As the light and shadows shifted, she quickly composed herself, curved her brows in a smile, and called him Third Uncle.
The man stopped beside her. His gaze, once looking down at her, drew closer and closer
He knelt beside her, lifted the hem of her dignified, elegant dress between his fingers, and said in a cool voice that brooked no refusal, “If you don’t like him, why marry him?”
After Wen Ning broke off her engagement, she spent her days “fooling around” with him.
It was their secret, something they couldn’t tell anyone.
Until one night, she fainted in the Wen family courtyard. When she woke, he had her fingers clasped tightly in his.
“You’re pregnant.” His Adam’s apple bobbed as he swallowed, and his voice sounded faintly apologetic. “It’s mine.”
In the three years since she returned to the Wen family, the first time Wen Ning defied them was because of him.
After that, he took responsibility every time she defied them.
Eight-year age gap / both virgins / shotgun marriage / marriage before love
Blurb dated 2024.01.29
Theme: Growth
