Spring Tide Without Restraint [Marriage Before Love]

[Powerful, paternal head of a wealthy family x small bakery owner]

Li Niningxi is the liveliest, most carefree little princess in the Li family, and she hates being tied down.

But when she was twenty, she impulsively married a man known in Shanghai's social circles for being stiff and dull.

Shang Yu is disciplined and proper, elegant and self-possessed. He's the eldest son of the Shang family, the most steady and reliable of them all, and the heir the entire city of Shanghai has its eyes on. Li Niningxi, meanwhile, is just a young woman whose family has sheltered her from the dangers of the world. She hardly seems suited to the role of a wealthy family's eldest daughter-in-law.

No one had faith in their marriage.

Not even Li Niningxi.

For the first six months of their marriage, Shang Yu was busy expanding his business empire, while Li Niningxi focused on her bakery. They saw each other only once in all that time.

They met again at Grandpa Shang's birthday banquet.

Amid the clinking of glasses, someone asked Shang Yu why he had married Li Niningxi. After a long pause, he answered, "We were a good match."

That very night, however, Li Niningxi showed him just how incompatible they were.

Li Niningxi tossed and turned in her sleep, kicking him out of bed three times.

Li Niningxi loved spicy food, while he only ate mild home cooking.

Li Niningxi laughed loudly and cried loudly. She couldn't hide her emotions at all.

Shang Yu had taken care of many younger siblings, but none of them had been as hard to soothe as the little wife in his arms.

But then he discovered the unique pleasure in it, and once he got a taste, he couldn't get enough. He fell deeper and deeper...

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There weren't many things Li Niningxi was afraid of, but what scared her most was Shang Yu coming home after a few days away on business.

In public, he always acted serious and stiff, the perfect gentleman in his family's eyes.

But in private, he loved coming up with every possible way to turn her inside out and wear her out.

Li Niningxi grabbed his hand as it slipped beneath her skirt and asked timidly, "Shang Yu, have you ever considered that we might really not be right for each other?"

"How aren't we right for each other?" The man's low, husky voice carried a hint of amusement at her ear. "Baby, our personalities match, our tastes match, and our bodies... match too. We're the most perfect couple in the whole world."

Li Niningxi lay in his arms, flushed and weak all over. "…" He might have a point?

Theme: Don't abandon me.