The Spring Tide Comes Late

Blurb

When Li Yang walks into the break room, her coworkers are discussing the kiss mark on their cold-faced boss's neck.

“It must have just happened last night. It wasn't there yesterday. They went at it that hard on a work night? If I hadn't seen the photo, I'd have thought I was imagining things.”

“Hard to believe this is our ruthless, cold-blooded boss.”

“Do you think he's only mean to us, but treats his little wife like a princess in private?”

Li Yang quietly pipes up, “He's not gentle at all.”

She speaks so softly that her coworkers, caught up in their lively discussion, don't hear her. But when they turn around, they see the very boss they're talking about standing behind them, his expression cool and unreadable.

Li Yang's heart leaps, and she doesn't dare meet his eyes.

Ten minutes later, Li Yang is called into the CEO's office to give a work report.

As soon as the door closes, Zhou Sunan pulls her onto his lap and kisses her. Between kisses, he asks, “I'm not gentle at all?”

Li Yang tries to pull away, then stubbornly answers, “You're not.”

Zhou Sunan bites her tongue and raises an eyebrow. “Last night, I stopped when you said you were tired. How is that not gentle?”

As the heir to the Zhou family, Zhou Sunan is known by everyone to be cold and heartless. To him, marriage is a business deal.

As long as his wife can bring him the benefits he needs, it makes no difference whether she's the eldest daughter of the Li family or their illegitimate second daughter.

All a married couple needs to do is treat each other with courtesy.

Then one night, his wife doesn't curl up in his arms as usual. Instead, she turns her back to him and lies far away.

Zhou Sunan frowns and pulls her into his embrace. “Are you upset? Why are you sleeping with your back to me?”

* A timid, sweet girl × a cold-faced CEO

* Two strangers fall in love after marrying first / both leads have no prior sexual partners / sweet, sweet, sweet

* Just a story about normal people falling in love

Theme: Love above all