After Marrying the Actress in a Flash Wedding Deal

● A little sweet treat / bonus chapter updated / please leave a good review when it's finished!

● New story, My Wife, So Frail She Can't Manage on Her Own, now open for advance reservations~

[Entertainment Gossip: A certain rising star surnamed S and last year's Best Actress were spotted meeting in private. It seems their relationship may have thawed.]

Netizens: Oh, absolutely!

Everyone in showbiz knows that Sheng Mingtang and Bai Qingyu are sworn enemies.

They never got along as students, and kept fighting all the way into the entertainment industry. They always refused to appear together, and their fan groups took every chance to bash each other... Their feud was an all-out war!

The next day, at a press conference, a reporter asked one of them about it.

"Nothing's changed," Bai Qingyu said coolly. "We just found time to get a certificate, that's all: a marriage certificate."

Everyone: ???

The news exploded across the trending searches, crashing the platform.

The public was desperate to know what was going on, and theories ran wild. The top-tier celebrity couples' variety show, We Got Married, paid a fortune to bring them onto the program.

In her solo interview, Sheng Mingtang wore a face as radiant as a begonia flower, with a languid, flirtatious gaze.

"A distraction in plain sight, while secretly making plans? Were we acting in front of the cameras all along? You've got it all wrong."

"It was a business marriage, a quickie wedding under contract. There's no way we could fall for each other."

"Why did I come on the show? They offered a lot of money."

Bai Qingyu had an event to attend and wouldn't arrive until evening. The comments had just finished lamenting that the two of them were obviously fake, with nothing worth watching.

What a waste of the production team's money!

That night, Bai Qingyu pinned Sheng Mingtang against the wall and kissed her. The two wives, so at odds in appearance and even more so in spirit, clung together and kissed like entwined snakes.

Bai Qingyu's thumb brushed Sheng Mingtang's lips. The once cool and radiant beauty, Yu Meiren, was finally tinted with begonia's vivid color. Her voice was bewitching.

"My Tangtang, where else are you going to run?"

!!!

The whole internet erupted!

As the show continued to air, viewers uncovered more and more details...

[You call this a marriage of convenience?]

[Bai Qingyu has had a secret crush all along. No, wait, Sheng Mingtang's just tsundere. She clearly likes it too! I'm so into them!]

*

One day, Sheng Mingtang was sorting through a drawer.

By then, their marriage of convenience had become real. Knowing how jealous her wife could get, Sheng Mingtang teased her by showing off the thick stack of love letters she'd received as a student.

Bai Qingyu pulled out one of them. "You don't need to throw this one away."

Sheng Mingtang was puzzled. She looked down and saw the signature on the letter:

Class 1, Senior Year, Bai Qingyu

Sheng Mingtang immediately smiled, eyes curving with delight. "Well, well~ So you've been after me for ages! Confess!"

"Yes." Bai Qingyu pulled her into her arms and kissed her lips. Her gaze was tender, her voice full of affection. "I've loved you for a long time."

[From school days to the wedding aisle, she planned and schemed, moving carefully at every step. At last, the prized flower she'd so carefully cultivated bloomed in the palm of her hand.]

* A bold, willful, pampered beauty X a frosty beauty on the outside, with plenty of naughty thoughts within (begonia flower X poppy), switch couple.

* Marriage first, love later; secret crush becomes reality.

* Cover character art used with permission: Shi Fei (non-exclusive). Many thanks~

* Synopsis screenshot saved on May 18, 2022; first half revised and screenshot saved on August 28.

----- Advance reservation: My Wife, So Frail She Can't Manage on Her Own

A rumor has been circulating in Liangcheng lately:

The fiancée of Zhou Yiyin, the second young lady of the wealthy Zhou family, is coming here from the countryside!

Rumor has it that the fiancée was originally promised to Zhou Qisheng, the eldest young master and next head of the Zhou family. But since he had no interest in the match, it was transferred to Zhou Yiyin, the idle second daughter of the second branch.

Tsk, tsk.

Everyone imagined that this country girl would have sallow skin and rough features, with thick calluses from working in the fields. Perhaps she was even a little slow, unable to read a single character, and utterly unsightly...

They'd already decided how they were going to mock her.

But on the day Zhou Yiyin arrived with her fiancée, Sang Yuan, the latter wore a qipao that accentuated her graceful figure. Her skin was as pale as snow, her hair as dark as ink, and her lips red as blood. A single glance from her was enough to make people lose their wits.

She was so beautiful that words failed to do her justice.

The eldest young master Zhou was there that day, too. When the beauty linked arms with his cousin and walked past him, he clutched his chest, consumed by regret.

*

In the years that followed, the love story of Zhou Yiyin and Sang Yuan spread to every corner of the city.

It even included an interlude about the eldest young master trying to win Sang Yuan back, only to be thoroughly humiliated.

Wherever she went, Zhou Yiyin would say, "My wife is so frail she can't manage on her own. Don't bully her."

"..."

She built pharmaceutical, beauty, and clothing companies from the ground up... Are you sure she's frail? Could we even bully her? Isn't she the one bullying us?

We can't afford to mess with her. Let's get out of here.

Meanwhile, with Sang Yuan's help, Zhou Yiyin seized power from the eldest young master, who was left utterly ruined and sick with regret.

*

At first, seeing Zhou Yiyin protect and dote on her fiancée, and knowing that Sang Yuan's name was one of the rarer ones, everyone assumed Sang Yuan had put a spell on Zhou Yiyin.

Later, as Sang Yuan's business empire kept growing and she never left Zhou Yiyin's side...

#So Sang Yuan is the one under a spell, right?#

#Please, we want to learn how to do that too#

#Could it be that she's just a hopeless romantic?#

*

Zhou Yiyin was cheerful and generous, but sometimes, late at night, she'd get caught in a spiral of overthinking and despair. Then Boss Sang would come cling to her and give her a quick kiss on the lips.

"Stop overthinking. The person I wanted to marry for the alliance from the very beginning was you."

* Domineering CEO X Miaojiang Gu woman (all misconceptions)

Theme: Stay true to your original aspirations, and you'll reach your destination.