A Summer Night Wedding

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[Marriage Before Love, Secret Crush Comes True]

A musical genius the likes of whom the music scene sees only once in a century.

The moment news broke that Zhou Yunchen was getting married, it instantly took over the headlines of entertainment news outlets.

Not only because he had chosen to marry at such a young age, but because his bride was a dance instructor at a training center.

As ordinary as they come.

While everyone speculated about what made this dance instructor so special,

Zhou Yunchen suddenly announced that he would appear on a couples' variety show.

During the livestream, hoping to draw viewers, the host asked Xu Sinian the sharpest question:

"Someone claims Zhou Yunchen married you just to put the rumors to rest. Is that true? After all, there's such a huge gap between you two."

Xu Sinian froze.

Before she could think of what to say, Zhou Yunchen spoke first. "I was the one who proposed getting married. That rumor is completely baseless. We'll take legal action against anyone spreading malicious lies. And the idea that we're unequal in status is laughable. My wife's worth shouldn't be confined to marriage and love."

Xu Sinian stared at him in disbelief. It was the first time she'd ever heard him give an answer like that.

She was the one who had secretly loved him for years, waited ten years, and never dared hope he'd look back at her.

At the concert that closed the show, Zhou Yunchen performed his original song, A Reply.

When the host asked what had inspired it, he stood at center stage, bathed in countless spotlights. Looking past the crowd to the person among them, he spoke in a code only the two of them could understand: "It's a reply to my wife."

He hoped the reply, delayed for so many years, hadn't come too late.

He set down the microphone, spotted the woman in the front row, and dropped to one knee amid the roaring cheers, a ring in his hand.

Xu Sinian watched him quietly. Just like back then, when the handsome young man bent down and held out a milk candy in his palm to shield her from the sun, smiling softly as he stole half a lifetime of happiness from her.

I want to gather all the stars in the universe and, with a purity untouched by worldly ways, be your moon.

2022.12.28

Reading tips

1. The story starts a little slowly.

2. Each other's first love.

3. Pure sweetness, no angst.

4. Hope you enjoy reading, and have a happy day, every day.

Manual divider

Mutual Pretenses | Strangers Marry Before Falling in Love | Hidden Identities Revealed After Marriage | One-on-One Romance

In public, Jiang Shiyu is a gentle, sweet flower-shop owner. In private, she's a foul-mouthed, hot-tempered cosplayer who can knock out three burly men with one punch.

To fend off her family's matchmaking pressure, she puts on a demure act and goes on a blind date, only to run into a total catch.

He's the youngest specially appointed professor at A University: cool and gentle, restrained and aloof, with an even temperament so flawless that no one can find fault with him.

Each with their own agenda, they hit it off, quickly get their marriage license, and begin a loveless life as a polite couple.

Until one late night, Jiang Shiyu locks her bedroom door and loses herself in the irresistibly seductive voice of the mysterious top-tier star CV she's admired for years, listening through her headphones.

Just as she's about to reach the peak, the bedroom door swings open.

Her "gentlemanly" husband walks in with a cup of hot milk and locks the door behind him. In the same deep, commanding voice as the one in her headphones, he drawls:

"Honey, what didn't I do well enough last night? Do you still need to take matters into your own 'hands'?"

Jiang Shiyu: "???"

Everyone knows Professor Song is as gentle as jade, living a quiet and peaceful life.

Only Jiang Shiyu knows that beneath his gentle exterior lies an extreme possessiveness.

Gentle on the surface but hot-tempered and looks-obsessed cosplayer VS gentle and abstinent on the surface but secretly scheming and possessive CV professor

Theme: Looking forward to becoming a better version of myself