My Heart Beats a Little Late [Marriage Before Love]

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About this story:

Lin Zhiyi has always been an ordinary girl. She comes from a humble family, gets average grades, and has never had much luck.

Gu Jingshi is different. He was born into a wealthy, distinguished family and has always been the kind of child other parents point to as an example. After graduating, he was recruited by a hospital as an attending physician.

These two people could hardly be more different.

And yet one day, he sat across from her and politely asked, "I heard your family is putting a lot of pressure on you to get married, and I happen to need someone to marry. What do you think of me?"

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After they married, they treated each other with respect and courtesy. Deep down, their friends all thought the marriage wouldn't last. They were mismatched in every way, and it was only a matter of time before they split up.

Then, at a dinner with her coworkers, Lin Zhiyi accidentally drank too much.

The private-room door opened unexpectedly, and the First Affiliated Hospital's renowned master surgeon walked in. Without a care for anyone else, he lifted Lin Zhiyi, who had passed out on the sofa, into his arms. His eyes were gentle as he said, "There's no need to trouble anyone else. I'll take my wife home."

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A little scene:

When they registered their marriage, the two made an unwritten agreement: this marriage was a partnership. Lin Zhiyi believed that not falling in love was the basic rule for keeping their partnership intact.

So, the day she realized she had fallen for him, she took the initiative and asked him for a divorce.

But she never expected the usually elegant and courteous man to lose his composure for the first time. He held her chin and met her gaze. Though the exhaustion of a night shift was clear on his face, he gazed steadily at her as if she were some priceless treasure.

He said, "Zhizhi, I was the one who fell in love first."

Reader's guide:

A marriage-first, love-later story between two strangers

Surgeon x medical school counselor

Both are each other's first, happy ending

Theme: Growing up