Wen Yeyu [Marriage Before Love]

#I married my childhood friend, who had a crush on me, before we fell in love

#Childhood friend beats the newcomer; friends become spouses

Blurb:

Shi Yu started dating Gu Jiangze, the golden boy she'd secretly loved since high school. She gave him her whole heart, but less than six months later, all she got in return was, "You deserve someone better." Then he dumped her.

Heartbroken, Shi Yu followed her family's arrangements and married Lu Wenye, the boy she'd never gotten along with since childhood.

Most of Shi Yu's memories of Lu Wenye were unpleasant. When she was sent to stay with his maternal grandmother for a while as a child, he was always picking fights with her and joining everyone else in looking down on her as a pampered city girl.

Lu Wenye: "Back then, who was it that played until late every day, then wouldn't walk home alone in the dark, so I had to carry you?"

Knowing he had a point, Shi Yu accepted her bad luck and married her nemesis.

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One day, during a break at an academic conference,

Gu Jiangze approached Shi Yu with a heartfelt look, holding a stack of love letters she'd once written. Moved to tears by her years of secret affection, he asked her to get back together.

Before he could say a word, Lu Wenye pulled Shi Yu into his arms and asked, "Wife, who is he?"

The scene of an ex asking to get back together embarrassed Shi Yu. When they got home, she played innocent. "Do I look like the kind of person who writes love letters?"

Lu Wenye only smiled. Knowing what sort of man he was, Shi Yu realized he was keeping score.

She thought men really could be petty. Everyone had been young once, and she didn't believe he hadn't written a few love letters himself.

Later, she discovered that Lu Wenye really had written some.

Ever since he went abroad, he'd sent her gifts and letters every year. She'd gladly accepted the gifts, but tossed each sealed letter into a cabinet, where it gathered dust.

The letters she'd assumed were bragging about his carefree life abroad were actually filled with how much he missed her.

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| One-on-one, happy ending; he had a crush on her

| Idea: 22.12.20

| Female lead's job to be changed (I'll think about it)

| Blurb to be revised, setting may change at any time; the story itself takes precedence

Premise: Building a happy family