Gentle Tides [Marriage Before Love]

[The male lead has had a crush on her for a long time and has been plotting this for ages. The female lead falls in love after marriage.]

[Gentle, powerful, restrained, and dangerously obsessive x cool beauty / four-year age gap / both leads are each other's first and only]

Blurb:

At twenty-seven, An Zhiyu did the craziest thing of her life. To get back at her cheating ex-boyfriend, she married his direct superior.

Jin Zhou, head of the Jin family, was a man with good manners ingrained in his very bones. He was gentle, reserved, and elegant, yet extremely guarded around women. No woman had ever breached his personal boundaries.

Before the wedding, An Zhiyu had heard all sorts of stories about how discreetly he kept his strength hidden. Who knew that the day after they got their marriage certificates, he would take her hand and kiss her forehead by a crowded elevator, then proudly announce, "I'm here to see my wife off to work."

"..." Could the rumors really be wrong?

It was only a marriage of convenience, and An Zhiyu assumed he was just putting on a show. But after they married, he was gentle and attentive, and endlessly patient with her.

On a bitter winter night, he chased after her to the city where she was staying, still wrapped in the cold, his voice so hoarse it barely sounded like him. "You're here alone. I can't stop worrying about you."

Only later did she find out that all the flights that day were sold out, so he had driven for nine hours. All because the weather forecast said there would be a torrential downpour in her city.

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No one would believe that a man like Jin Zhou, standing at the top of the pyramid, could have a secret, unspoken crush.

But before meeting An Zhiyu, he had always been a man of exceptional self-discipline and propriety. Then he heard she was about to get married, and the passion, obsession, and deep love he'd kept buried finally became impossible to hide.

So at her ex-boyfriend's wedding, he let go of the restraint he'd maintained for so long and asked her, "Would you marry me?"

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Love at first sight should happen in an instant. But her appearance shook his whole world. The impact went beyond anything he could have imagined, and every time they were alone together, she easily stirred up a storm inside him.

Theme: Love and harmony