Spoiled but Not Coddled

[My next book: Hiding a Pregnancy While Married to My Powerful Ex]

Secret marriage in the entertainment industry / married first, fall in love later / six-year age gap / unrequited love turns mutual

Professor of Traditional Chinese Medicine X A-list rising actress

Blurb:

During a livestream introducing traditional Chinese medicine, Shen Jingmo caught everyone's attention with his refined, elegant looks and gained countless fans.

Born into a family of traditional medicine practitioners, he is the youngest professor of traditional Chinese medicine at his medical school. Plenty of young women secretly admire him, but he is extremely aloof and firmly rejects every advance. His cool, celibate demeanor makes people wonder if he even likes women.

Later, after Shen Jingmo attended an academic conference and closed his presentation, everyone was surprised to discover that Professor Shen's computer wallpaper was a selfie that rising star Yu Yan had posted just the night before.

The livestream comments flew by: “Professor Shen is a fanboy in private too?!!”

One person raised an eyebrow at the comments and bragged nonchalantly, “I'm not a fan. That's my wife.”

Netizens: The professor isn't just a fanboy! He's a delusional boyfriend, too!

As a top-tier star in the entertainment industry, Yu Yan is not only beautiful and dazzling, but has also won so many major awards that she can barely keep track. She's known in the industry for being fiercely dedicated to her career.

Recently, news broke that this treasure of a goddess had once been publicly rejected by the person she had a crush on.

Netizens were dying to know what kind of man could turn down a confession from the beautiful Yu!

She replied, “He's very tall and handsome. I think he's a professor of traditional Chinese medicine now.”

Asked about their current relationship, Yu Yan answered calmly, “He was just passing through. I stopped caring a long time ago.”

Netizens who saw through the truth relentlessly tagged a certain professor.

“Face reality. You have no chance anymore.”

Then one day, a marketing account dropped a bombshell.

[TOP-TIER STAR CAUGHT SHARING A SWEET KISS WITH HER BOYFRIEND IN PUBLIC~]

Even though the footage was blurry, it wasn't hard to recognize Yu Yan as the one rising on her toes to kiss Shen Jingmo.

The news sent shockwaves across the internet!!

Netizens: Shen Jingmo and Yu Yan! The least likely couple ever?!

Did the delusional boyfriend's dream come true, or has the goddess always cared?

As a trending topic filled with people insisting the news was fake, one of the stars in question quietly chimed in.

Shen Jingmo: @Yu Yan, when are you going to make our relationship official?

Yu Yan: Everyone, don't scare him. He's my husband. He's my legally married husband, and he worked really hard to win me over.

#The aloof beauty I've had a crush on for years is now pursuing me relentlessly#

Celibate foxlike man X dazzling beauty

Sweet romance! Both leads are each other's first and only.

Coming next

Hiding a Pregnancy While Married to My Powerful Ex

Xie Zhiyuan and Zhou Yu dated in college. Their relationship was passionate and everyone knew about it.

The more deeply they had loved each other, the uglier their breakup had been.

They parted on bitter terms and vowed never to see each other again.

Five years later, they met again.

After one reckless night fueled by alcohol, nobody knew whether they had been sober when they lost themselves in each other.

A month later, Xie Zhiyuan stared at a pregnancy test with two lines. She had just one thought.

Tell Zhou Yu and get an abortion.

Because she knew they had no future together.

At twenty-seven, Zhou Yu was young, successful, and an exceptional talent in investment banking.

His life had been planned as meticulously as a business formula and had never gone off course, except when it came to Xie Zhiyuan.

Staring at the pregnancy test report on the table, he fell into thought.

He knew that no matter what, his life was bound to circle back to her.

At the hospital entrance, Zhou Yu pulled Xie Zhiyuan away. “Let's get married.”

That unexpected night forced the two who had been apart for so long into a marriage.

One day after their wedding, as usual, Zhou Yu waited until Xie Zhiyuan fell asleep, tucked her in, and gently wrapped his arms around her from behind.

In the middle of the night, Xie Zhiyuan woke groggily. The person beside her seemed to be having a nightmare. His arm held her tightly, and he mumbled something indistinctly.

Zhou Yu's voice was quiet but firm. She had to lean closer to hear him.

“Xie Zhiyuan, don't leave me again.”

#When you show up, nobody else compares#

Coming after that

Married Today

Zhou Nian'an was born beautiful into a wealthy family, and, like many women her age, faced pressure to get married.

Unwilling to settle for that, she decided to try another way. She and an online friend she'd known for years, who was struggling with the same marriage pressure, hit it off and made a plan.

From meeting in person to meeting each other's parents, registering their marriage, and moving in together, the whole process took less than three months.

But over those three months, they never exchanged more than three sentences a day.

On the first day after her company was acquired, Zhou Nian'an joined her coworkers in the lobby to welcome the new president.

Rumor had it the new president was a management expert sent from headquarters to stamp out the laid-back attitude at the subsidiary.

Her coworkers sighed that work would surely get harder, since the boss was said to be extremely difficult to approach.

Twisting her wedding ring, Zhou Nian'an joined in.

“He's cold inside and out, like a block of wood. Rotten wood, at that.”

When she looked up again, Qin Shuli was standing in front of her.

The man did have a cold expression, looking unapproachable even as people welcomed him.

When their eyes met, Zhou Nian'an froze for a long moment.

After all, he was the husband she'd just met in person after dating online.

So now her husband was her boss?

After a nerve-racking day at work, Zhou Nian'an walked out of the company. A car parked by the entrance slowly lowered its window.

Qin Shuli leaned toward the passenger seat and opened the door for her. “Get in.”

When she stayed rooted to the spot, he patiently explained, “It's on my way. I'll take you home.”

Zhou Nian'an pursed her lips and got in, since it really was on his way.

Qin Shuli was unusually talkative today, his cool questions tinged with exasperation.

“Am I rotten wood just because I'm not much of a talker?”

“Is this how you talk about your husband when you're out?”

Theme: Be brave enough to express what you think