Married Life Notes

- Marriage first, love later / everyday married life / vb@Xi Wu Bu Qi Wu

1.

Chen Jiayu was supported by the Wen family and worked her way into a top university.

Her professor was an old friend of Old Master Wen, so she had accompanied him on several visits. She often heard the old man mention Wen Yan.

Wen Yan was the current head of the group, born into a prominent family and strikingly handsome. Rumor had it that he kept women at arm's length, and he was widely regarded in their circles as a gentleman of impeccable character.

Chen Jiayu first met him at an academic conference.

The scheduled opening kept getting delayed. They waited until the man entered the venue surrounded by people, then calmly took his seat in the center of the front row.

Someone leaned in to flatter him. When he turned his head, his expression remained completely indifferent.

They were worlds apart, and Chen Jiayu had never imagined getting involved with him.

But sometimes the unexpected happens without warning.

Caught up in an unwarranted disaster, she decided to enter into a marriage in name if not in spirit. As it happened, Wen Yan had his own reasons and was at the last possible moment of his deadline to get married.

Outside the eaves, a light rain pattered down. Wen Yan looked at her calmly. "I heard you've been going on blind dates lately."

"Would you consider me?"

2.

Wen Yan had prosopagnosia. To him, people were distinguishable only by gender. His childhood friend changed girlfriends as often as he changed clothes, and Wen Yan thought his IQ was practically zero. He could hardly understand dating someone over and over who had the same face.

So his friend had never approved of his marriage.

Until one day, Chen Jiayu went away for a course. After three months apart, they ran into each other in a bar.

She had just had a little too much at a dinner party and came up to him to ask for his contact information.

As his friend stared in shock, Wen Yan recognized his wife at a glance. He steadied Chen Jiayu by the back, then brushed his fingers over the flushed corner of her eye and said patiently:

"Mrs. Wen, you've had me on your friends list for a long time."

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[In the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the natural weather phenomenon of persistently cloudy, rainy days in early summer is called the Plum Rain season.]

[Meteorologists call the rains that begin after late June the Late Plum Rain season.]

At a financial interview several years into their marriage, Wen Yan, who had always been tight-lipped about his private life, made a rare remark: "Before I married my wife, my world was dark, as if it were trapped in the Plum Rain season year-round."

"Then my wife appeared, and I finally saw the sunshine after the rain that had come so late."

- Bright, clear-eyed first love × refined, proud, doting older man

One-on-one, both leads are each other's only partner

22 × 28 / six-year age gap, he is older

Synopsis archived on December 10, 2024

Please add my pseudo-siblings story, "Lost Warmth," to your collections!

- Reunion after a long separation / seemingly obedient × genuinely unhinged

1.

After her parents died unexpectedly, sixteen-year-old Meng Baozhu was all that remained of the old-money Meng family. As power slipped from her hands, people mocked her behind her back and to her face, saying she had gone from phoenix to sparrow.

Then Meng Yuzhuo, who had been studying overseas, gave up his advanced studies and returned to the country overnight.

Meng Yuzhuo was the Meng family's adopted son. Just hearing his name was enough to make people tremble. Rumor said he came from underground fight clubs, and that his methods were so cold-blooded he had no regard for human feelings.

As others secretly became infatuated with her older brother,

Meng Baozhu, who had never had any improper thoughts about him at first, couldn't help but follow suit.

But it all ended on the snowy night Meng Yuzhuo discovered her secret. Sitting dazed against the headboard, Meng Baozhu met his eyes across the doorway when he unexpectedly came home. His dark gaze swept over her as he ordered her out without mercy: "Get out of my room."

2.

After her confession was rejected, Meng Baozhu spent countless days and nights trying to give up. But falling in love with Meng Yuzhuo again and again was easy.

So she decided to make him hers, to possess him.

Until she discovered that Meng Yuzhuo had started seeing potential blind dates.

At a long-planned yacht party, Meng Baozhu used herself as bait. After that night of passion, Meng Yuzhuo lost all trace of her.

All that remained was the warmth beside him on the pillow and the torn stocking he had ripped apart.

Years later, they met again at the tenth anniversary memorial for their parents.

Meng Baozhu left the cemetery with her boyfriend. Meng Yuzhuo suddenly appeared and pulled apart their tightly clasped hands, then slowly wiped the skin he had touched with a handkerchief.

Her boyfriend demanded to know who he was.

"Tell him who I am."

Meng Yuzhuo pinched her fingertips, his eyes shadowed and his smile edged with menace. "If you don't tell him now, then go home and say it for my ears alone."

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- Losing you is like suffering severe hypothermia.

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