You Are a Treasure

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Yan Shihan is notorious in his circle for caring only about profit. Business is all he thinks about; everything else leaves him cold.

When he reaches marriageable age, his mother busies herself arranging blind dates. Yan Shihan cooperates, showing up on time to every one and reviewing the background reports his secretary prepares as if he were interviewing job candidates. Each time, he manages to insult the young ladies until they cry.

Before long, he becomes the most undesirable bachelor on the blind-date market.

Even as the Yan family grows more powerful by the day, and even though his mother shamelessly promotes him, no one is willing to go on a date with him anymore.

Then one day, his mother suddenly throws a grand banquet and announces the happy news that Yan Shihan is about to get married.

The whole social circle is in an uproar. Which young lady passed his blind-date interview?

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The Lin family has recently had a wonderful piece of news: their daughter, who went missing over twenty years ago, has been found.

She was once a tiny little thing, and now she's grown into a round little dumpling. Chubby... er, to her real mother, she looks prosperous no matter how you see it!

She even has a lovely name: Zhen Bao.

The Zhen family has always cherished Zhen Bao, and they are happy for their adopted daughter now that she has found her birth parents.

The two families happily agree to change Zhen Bao's name to Lin Zhenbao.

Mrs. Lin says, "I've let Bao down all these years. I need to find her a good match."

Mrs. Zhen says, "Our Bao is so wonderful. She deserves the very best!"

After looking high and low, it seems only Yan Shihan of the Yan family, a top-tier star in their circle, has credentials strong enough.

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As Yan Shihan looks over the background report his secretary prepared, he realizes for the first time that this will be a difficult blind date.

The round young woman across from him is nothing like the noble ladies he's met before. As soon as she sits down, she starts eating dessert and chatting with him like an old friend about the weather. She even asks him what his dreams are.

When she's finished her first dessert, he asks, "What do you think you can bring to our marriage?"

The young woman puffs out her chest and proudly replies, "I can answer the national call and have three children!"

Yan's mother, eavesdropping at the next table, excitedly knocks over her chair and hurries over to clasp Lin Zhenbao's plump hand.

"Miss Lin, you're a teacher through and through, with such a high level of civic awareness! We have to answer the national call. Auntie supports you! If you have a child with Shihan, I'll donate a Hope Primary School! Why wait for the perfect day when today will do? Let's go register our marriage now. We can't let anything hold up the children's schooling!"

A profit-obsessed businessman X a devoted primary school teacher

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Upcoming novel: Men, Stay Away

After more than a year of marriage, Wen Yushu and Liang Chuan are still a couple in name only.

After enduring over a year of emotional neglect, Wen Yushu's love-struck brain finally clears.

She quits being a full-time housewife and returns to the workplace.

She invests in a drama, casts the actors, and stars as the female lead herself. It's not for money; it's just to make herself happy.

The male lead looks a bit like Liang Chuan.

The second male lead has a similar build to Liang Chuan.

The third male lead has a similar air to Liang Chuan when he isn't speaking.

She's got money. What kind of man couldn't she get? Even if she has to put one together herself.

He ignores her and gives her the cold shoulder?

No problem. It's not like he's the only man she could have. A sweet, attentive young stud is a delight.

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Lately, Liang Chuan keeps hearing people gossip about him behind his back, saying his head has turned into a whole meadow.

Wen Yushu, who used to put herself first in everything, has become a different person. She's investing in a TV drama and starring as the female lead.

He doesn't mind her acting, but what is she doing in scenes where she cuddles up to men?

Does she not know she's married?

Making soup for the male lead?

Carefully picking a shirt for the second male lead?

Flirting and getting close to the third male lead?

If she wants a divorce, she should just say so!

At a family dinner, their parents urge them to have a child. Before Liang Chuan can offer one of his usual tired excuses, Wen Yushu says something shocking.

"It's not that I don't want a child. Liang Chuan can't. We still haven't consummated our marriage."

Everyone in the room is struck dumb, as if a bolt from the blue has hit them.

Liang Chuan flies into a rage. "Wen Yushu, what nonsense are you talking about?"

Wen Yushu is frighteningly calm. "I don't want to cover for you anymore, and I don't want to spend my whole life as a widow in all but name. Let's get divorced."

Liang Chuan: "..."

This woman is not content with cheating on him; now she's making up lies to ruin his reputation!

Divorce? Dream on! He's going to have a child with her, come hell or high water!

Theme: Self-reliance