Meng Chuchu had been single her whole life for 22 years. She was timid, cautious, and studious. Yet in her senior year, on the first snowy day of winter, an accident led a stranger to propose to her.
Attached was a one-year marriage contract.
The man was Qin Zhi, a business tycoon in Jiangcheng and the heir to a family with far-reaching influence, a famously distinguished young master.
Meng Chuchu, meanwhile, was a recent college graduate whose job applications had been rejected more than a dozen times.
She had never dared imagine that one day she would live under the same roof as this impeccable, dazzling favorite of heaven.
So Meng Chuchu was on edge.
For the year they were married, she and Qin Zhi saw each other only during the day. They never crossed paths at night, and never came within half a meter of each other.
On the first snowy day of the following year, they signed the agreement and went their separate ways.
They met again on another snowy day. Meng Chuchu entered a conference room with the audit team, and the two of them looked at each other in silence across a mountain of reports and vouchers.
Meng Chuchu looked away first.
Late one night, Meng Chuchu was alone in a temporary office, organizing the working papers, when someone knocked on the door.
Qin Zhi wore the same seemingly gentle smile as always. His dark eyes fixed on her. "Are they pushing you around, making you work overtime alone?"
Meng Chuchu explained, "Your accounts are such a mess. I suggest you get a new accountant."
She paused, then added, "I want to finish early and go home for New Year."
"Why the rush to go home?" Qin Zhi asked, his dark eyes on her.
"To go on a blind date."
Qin Zhi chuckled softly. "How about you skip the blind date and marry me again?"
-
Qin Zhi had been in poor health for those few years, yet he unexpectedly got married. Everyone thought he had found true love.
But nobody ever saw him attend an event with his new wife. He never flaunted their affection, and they divorced after just one year.
Later, his health gradually improved. Beautiful women still made advances, but he remained the same smiling devil, never stopping for anyone.
Several years later, he married again. Everyone thought this marriage might not last a year either.
But from then on, he was nowhere to be seen at drinking parties or dinners, and even his friends couldn't get him to come out.
A friend went to his home to look for him, but the person who opened the door was Qin Zhi's familiar ex-wife.
Wearing a loose bathrobe, Qin Zhi pulled her into his arms. Before closing the door, he answered, "I'm not going. I have to help my wife organize her working papers."
[Married first, love later / Contract marriage / Slow burn / Sweet romance]
[The male lead falls first and pursues the female lead.]
[Refined, distinguished, and calculating X gentle, hard-working sweetheart / Tech tycoon X auditor]
- It was your mercy that set me free.
Theme: Love cannot be measured in terms of gain and loss.
