Crossing the Boundaries of the Heart [Marriage Before Love]

Mutual Pretenses | Strangers Marry First, Fall in Love Later | Their True Selves Revealed During Marriage | 1v1

In the eyes of others, Jiang Shiyu is a gentle, gracious flower shop owner, the well-behaved young woman elders adore.

Nobody knows that beneath her gentle exterior, she's a popular cosplayer in the community.

She's straightforward and perceptive, quick-witted and sharp-tongued. She never lets herself suffer even the slightest injustice, and is nothing like her docile public persona.

To fend off her family's endless pressure to marry, she clings to her ladylike image and goes through the motions of blind dates, hoping to find a decent, reliable stranger to marry for convenience.

Then she falls for Song Xingyu at first sight.

A University's youngest specially appointed professor: cool and composed, gentle yet ascetic, so restrained that he seems almost indifferent. Every gesture makes him look like a refined gentleman, the perfect partner in everyone's eyes.

She wants to fend off pressure to marry. He wants to avoid trouble.

Two strangers, each hiding their cards and wearing a mask, hit it off and rush to get their marriage license.

They'll be a couple who treat each other with polite respect and never cross the line, putting on a show of wedded bliss for the world.

Until one quiet night.

With the bedroom door locked, Jiang Shiyu puts on her headphones and loses herself in the deep, seductive voice of her favorite mysterious top-tier star CV, who has never shown his face.

The voice is irresistibly intimate, stirring up desire. Just as her emotions reach their peak, the bedroom door quietly opens.

Jiang Shiyu freezes in terror. Before she can take off her headphones, a large, elegant hand grabs her wrist and pins it above her head.

Professor Song, usually as gentle as jade, now has his tie hanging loose, his gold-rimmed glasses casually dangling from his lips.

He takes her headphones with one hand and tosses them onto the carpet. Then he guides her hand onto his warm, firm abs.

In the exact same deep voice as the one in her headphones, he leans close to her flushed ear and says with an unhurried smile, "Listening isn't much fun. Since you have a need, I'll give you a live performance myself tonight."

Everyone says Professor Song is a perfect gentleman, living a peaceful and tranquil life. Only Jiang Shiyu knows what intense possessiveness and obsession lie beneath his gentle exterior.

She thought they were simply marrying for convenience, but she doesn't know that he's been carefully plotting every step, indulging and tempting her, waiting for her to walk right into his trap.

He watches her play her part without letting on, until she discovers that the man she married was never still water, but a deep sea cloaked in moonlight, luring her into its depths.

A seemingly gentle but actually fiery, looks-obsessed cosplayer x a seemingly gentle, ascetic professor and CV who is actually scheming and obsessive

Theme: Building a happy family and maintaining lasting social stability