Why Won't You Fall for Me?

*My new novel, I Forgot My First Love, is now available. It's super sweet, so go read it!

A sweet marriage-before-love romance, one-on-one, both are each other's first and only.

[A gentle, virtuous wife who won't fall in love x a devil of a CEO in the industry, with a head full of inner monologues]

To escape her family's arrangements, Tao Liaoliao decided to get married on impulse.

The matchmaker told her that her prospective husband came from a wealthy and powerful family, but was cold and heartless by nature, and was known as a devil in the industry.

After marrying him, she would play the role of a virtuous wife and improve the group's public image. They could divorce after three years. To avoid trouble later, she mustn't fall for him.

Tao Liaoliao did everything flawlessly.

She absolutely would not fall in love.

One day, Mu Bozhou came to knock on his new wife's door, his face expressionless. "I feel awful. My heart's burning."

Tao Liaoliao held out the glass of water in her hand. "How about... a little warm water?"

Mu Bozhou laughed in exasperation. "Is this what they call a virtuous wife?"

Tao Liaoliao glanced at the half-empty glass she'd already drunk from. That really was too much. "I'll pour you a fresh glass."

Only then did the CEO notice the lipstick mark on the rim. His ears turned scarlet. "Wait, I want this one."

So much for being a devil in the industry!

Mu Bozhou discovered that Tao Liaoliao had applied to a university abroad for a doctoral program that would take four years.

He thought, It's only a little far away. I can fly over to see her whenever I have time.

One day, his assistant asked if he wanted to handle some news. A reporter had photographed his wife going for a prenatal checkup.

Mu Bozhou's hand trembled, and he knocked over his glass.

It seemed his wife wasn't really going abroad for a doctorate. She was pregnant and planning to run away from him!

She was always easygoing and unconcerned with the world.

He was always torn up inside.

Faced with Tao Liaoliao, who always seemed to get things she never meant to, Mu Bozhou reminded himself eight hundred times a day: A racing heart isn't a racing heart, it's the sound of war drums closing in from all sides!

Three seconds later...

"Honey, love me a little more."

*Fairy-tale author x CEO, one-on-one, both are each other's first and only, marriage before love.

*He's gentle only with you. The male lead is the type who wins himself over.

*Just the daily story of a big fox flirting with his wife, lighthearted and silly.

Also known as: Falling in Love After Marrying a CEO with Too Many Inner Monologues and The Domineering CEO Is Only Gentle with Me.

[The author's new novel, I Forgot My First Love, opens in January. Please add it to your favorites!]

Theme: See true love beyond appearances.