The Poor Little One Was Forced into an Arranged Marriage and Became the Apple of a Powerful Man’s Eye

+++++Blurb:

Because his stepfather's company was in trouble, Gu Xingfu was forced to marry into the Shi family, to the head of the family. Rumor had it that Shi Wen Zhe was mercurial and sinister, and no one dared even look him in the eye.

When Gu Xingfu's mother sent him to the Shi family, she told him he had to ingratiate himself with Shi Wen Zhe so that his stepfather's family could get through this crisis. Gu Xingfu knew everyone had abandoned him.

The first time Gu Xingfu met Shi Wen Zhe, Shi Wen Zhe was wearing a black suit and gold-rimmed glasses. Standing against the light, his expression was unreadable. Gu Xingfu was afraid of him, tears welling in his eyes as he timidly called him Mr. Shi.

Shi Wen Zhe paused, then walked past him without expression.

At the Shi home, Gu Xingfu was constantly on edge.

But he noticed that ever since he arrived, the classmates who used to bully him at school had stopped, and even his stepbrother no longer dared order him around.

He'd thought life at the Shi home would be miserable, but unexpectedly, everything went smoothly.

Gu Xingfu was allergic to cilantro, so from then on, cilantro never appeared in the Shi household again.

Gu Xingfu liked chocolate milk, so the Shi family stocked every brand of it.

When a sudden downpour trapped him, Shi Wen Zhe held an umbrella and took his hand in a warm one, leading him out of the rain.

When Gu Xingfu sprained his ankle and was secretly treating it by himself, Shi Wen Zhe came over, swept him into his arms, and set him on the sofa. Then he knelt in front of him and carefully, gently applied medicine.

Only then did Gu Xingfu realize that Shi Wen Zhe wasn't as frightening as the rumors made him out to be.

Later, Shi Wen Zhe's friends came over. He had just lit a cigarette when a sweet voice rang out: "Shi Wen Zhe, if you smoke again, you're sleeping on the sofa by yourself tonight!"

Shi Wen Zhe immediately put out the cigarette and said ingratiatingly, "I won't smoke, I won't smoke."

At his friends' astonished looks, Shi Wen Zhe smiled blissfully. "My husband keeps me on a tight leash. You wouldn't understand how wonderful it is."

And so everyone learned that the Shi Wen Zhe everyone feared had someone he was "afraid" of.

Gu Xingfu thought no one would ever care about him or look after him, never realizing that he was Shi Wen Zhe's most precious treasure.

An older man who spoils his younger husband, spoils him a lot, and spoils the poor little thing until he can do whatever he wants.

Ten-year age gap.

++++ A slow-burn, everyday-life romance.

Theme: With love in your heart and light in your eyes, everything you see is beautiful.