After Marrying My Childhood Friend by Agreement

Wen Sheng and Xiang Wan were born into wealthy families and grew up together as childhood friends.

After being urged to get married time and again because they were so close, they decided to simply move in together and make a life of it.

On the day they signed their marriage agreement, they laid down three ground rules:

1. We will not fall in love.

2. We will not sleep together.

3. Our friendship will last forever.

After registering their marriage, their wonderful life as a married couple began.

Their marital home was several hundred square meters, with an unlimited supply of snacks and takeout.

They could stay up all night playing games online, then hide together under the covers and sleep in the next day.

When they were invited to appear on a newlywed reality show, they would even call each other "hubby" now and then, enthusiastically playing the part of a sweet married couple.

Before long, hashtags like #TheRichGuysAreTooSweet, #WenShengKissesHisEarlobe, #ClingyBack-HuggingKoala, #XiangWanSoothesHimToSleep, and #TheHusbandsGoAtItUntilDawn were trending one after another.

Looking at those two handsome, aristocratic faces on screen, the whole internet was hopelessly smitten.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last.

While out on a trip, Wen Sheng and Xiang Wan were trapped in the mountains by a typhoon.

By accident, they got utterly drunk.

And then, by another accident, they spent three days and three nights in bed together.

When they came back, everything had changed.

They stopped cuddling, could barely get half a sentence out without stammering, and nearly got into a fight just from touching hands.

The CP fans panicked: A marital crisis? Sleeping in separate beds? The sky is falling! 555

Then one day, they accidentally picked up each other's phones.

In Wen Sheng's search history were some records he had forgotten to delete:

"Zodiac compatibility analysis," "Do I need to ask permission before kissing my spouse after marriage?" "What do I do if I don't like my husband smiling at other people?"...

And in Xiang Wan's notes was a record of his nearly decade-long secret crush:

"I fell in love with sixteen-year-old Wen Sheng at first sight."

"I secretly hugged him from behind at night."

"I'm almost unable to hide my desire anymore. I want him every single day."

Ever since their school days, Wen Sheng and Xiang Wan had been the stars of the show.

Nearly 190 centimeters tall, so handsome it was almost offensive, and scoring far above everyone else, with a gap of nine places between them and third place.

They ate together, slept together, and studied together, even getting the same score on the college entrance exam.

Plenty of people at school shipped them, but theirs was the real deal: brotherly affection.

It wasn't until their newlywed reality show aired that everyone found out they had registered their marriage.

Every day it was "Hubby, give me a hug" and "I want hubby to carry me," sweet enough to send the whole internet rolling around in delight.

But at a class reunion, the two handsome men coolly revealed the truth: it was all an act.

Yet, just after the reunion ended, someone happened to see the newlyweds wearing rings, dead drunk and clinging to each other's hands:

"When are you going to confess to me?" - "I love you."

"Will you marry me?" - "We've already been married for two years."

#BonusScene

Xiang Wan: We aren't dating. We're just jealous of each other, just pinching each other's cheeks and touching each other's ears, just married, that's all.

Wen Sheng: The sofa, the floor, the bathroom mirror, the desk, the car after work... all fair game, right?

Reader's Guide:

1. Sweet, mutually doting story with Wen Sheng as the pursuer and Xiang Wan as the pursued. No role reversal or switching.

2. A sweet marriage-first, love-later story, with a newlywed reality show woven in.

3. Two equally matched leads, with almost no difference in build or physical strength. Two extremely handsome men.

Blurb revised on 2023.10.15

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