Lull You to Sleep

[Please add my upcoming novel, My Immediate Boss Is the Father of the Child Who Went Missing Years Ago, to your reading list~]

Three years ago, Wen Yao returned to Jiangnan with her grandmother. After studying there for three years, she came back to Ningcheng. Her father had remarried, giving her a stepsister two years older than her, while she had lost her fiance, Jiang Yao.

Her stepsister and fiance had joined forces and become husband and wife. They were constantly making cutting remarks at Wen Yao, but she didn't care and focused on her studies.

Her grandmother was so worried she was nearly sick with anger, and was determined to find her a match from an even more prominent family than Jiang Yao's.

She found the richest family in Ningcheng, the Qi family. Thanks to her lifelong friendship with the Qi family's grandmother, the family agreed to match Wen Yao with a man of fine character and exceptional looks.

The Qi family had three young men, each outstanding in his own way. The eldest son was already married with children, and the youngest was still in school. Only the second son, Qi Sili, was available. Exceptionally handsome and already a capable, independent man at a young age, he was aloof and so uninterested in women that his friends jokingly called him the Second Monk Qi.

Grandma Wen figured marrying a man who was like a monk was still better than marrying a two-timing scumbag. Besides, Qi Sili was far more capable than Jiang Yao, so she made up her mind: done!

So, just after her fiance betrayed her, Wen Yao became engaged to Qi Sili.

She didn't take this new fiance, who wasn't actually a monk but might as well have been, to heart. When people asked about him and she couldn't brush them off, she would smile and say, "Qi Sili knows more about this than I do. Go ask him."

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Friends heard Qi Sili had a beautiful, clever university student for a fiancee, so they asked him at a casual get-together at a bar whether she was pretty.

Remembering Wen Yao, whom he had never met, Qi Sili replied without much interest, "She should be... pretty?"

His friend: "What do you mean, 'should be'?"

Just then, a beautiful woman passed by downstairs. His friend pointed to her and asked, "Compared to that beauty, who's prettier, your fiancee or her?"

Qi Sili didn't even look. "My fiancee."

As soon as he said that, someone called to the beautiful woman downstairs: "Wen Yao!"

Only then did Qi Sili look up, meeting Wen Yao's eyes as she turned around to see who was calling her.

Her almond eyes were like clear pools, and her cheeks like lotus petals.

She really was stunning.

At the start of her engagement to Qi Sili, he never contacted her, not even adding her on WeChat. Just as she was about to forget about her monk-like fiance, she received a friend request one day.

It was from Qi Sili.

Then came the key to their marital home.

After that, an invitation to dinner.

One rainy day, Qi Sili picked her up and brought her to their marital home. Feeling embarrassed, she took a hot shower in the guest room and put on some freshly dried clothes. It was late, and she was about to say goodbye and return to her dorm at school.

Qi Sili handed her a cup of warm milk. His expression was aloof, but his eyes were dark as he said, "It's raining hard. Don't go back. Stay here tonight."

Wen Yao: "..."

He continued, "We're legally engaged anyway. Half of this house is yours."

Wen Yao: "..."

When Wen Yao and Qi Sili moved into their marital home, both grandmothers worried that the aloof, monk-like man and the gentle, easygoing girl wouldn't get along and would end up sleeping in separate rooms. They held it in as long as they could, but eventually agreed to surprise them one evening.

As soon as the two grandmothers entered the marital home, they came face to face with Qi Sili, who had just come out of the master bedroom.

Qi Sili was taken aback, but quickly straightened his shirt. There was still tenderness in his eyes as he greeted them. "Grandma."

Grandma Qi thought her grandson, who had never shown an interest in love, looked unusually gentle. Before she could take a closer look, a pair of slender, pale wrists wrapped around Qi Sili's narrow waist from behind. In a soft, sweet voice, Wen Yao pleaded, "Don't go. Stay and help me fall asleep."

Grandma Qi and Grandma Wen exchanged a look: Hey, it worked!

A sweet, pampered heiress x an aloof, celibate monk-like man

Sweet romance after marriage. The male lead isn't actually a monk. Before meeting the heroine, he simply lived a life as ascetic as one.

Some fictional details.

Upcoming novel: After Marrying My Sister's Blind Date

1. When Wen Ning's older sister was pressured by their father to go on a blind date, Wen Ning was also being forced by her mother to meet an executive earning tens of millions a year.

Before this, Wen Ning had already met more than ten wealthy men with all sorts of temperaments, arranged by her mother. Tired of putting up with rich men's unwanted advances and vulgar remarks, she heard from her sister that the sister's blind date was a respectable, gentle university professor who needed a marriage. In a moment of impulse, she messaged her sister.

Wen Ning: [Sis, let me go on this blind date for you.]

Her sister was against marriage, so she agreed.

With her mother controlling her so tightly that she could hardly breathe, Wen Ning made up her mind on her way to the date: if the man proposed, she would say yes without hesitation.

Things took a turn when Shen Yibai introduced himself as a professor at Jing University. Wen Ning suddenly remembered that the previous year, after graduating from university, she had applied to Jing University for graduate school. Her mother had deliberately stopped her from attending the second-round interview, so she had missed it.

Shen Yibai was the graduate advisor she had contacted after the written exam. She had even added him as a contact through email.

Looking again at the refined, scholarly Professor Shen sitting across from her, Wen Ning became extremely uneasy.

As the date was drawing to a close, Shen Yibai seemed quite pleased with her. He said, "Miss Wen, to be honest, I need a stable, long-term marriage. I like you very much. If you feel the same, please forgive my forwardness, but could we register our marriage soon?"

Marrying her sister's blind date was fine, but marrying the graduate advisor she had once planned to study under was not.

Wen Ning's palms grew sweaty. She was about to refuse.

But just as she opened her mouth, she thought of her mother's years of control. She bit her lip, changed her answer, and said, "All right."

2. Shen Yibai was thirty-two, a chemistry professor and an important member of a renowned national research institute. Successful in his career, handsome, and from a wealthy family, he had no interest in marriage. But when both his parents threatened to take their own lives, he had no choice but to agree to a blind date.

To stop his parents from threatening suicide again, Shen Yibai decided to find a suitable woman to marry. Beyond love, he would be the perfect husband and give her a perfect marriage.

He recognized Wen Ning the moment he saw her.

She was the woman who had missed the second-round interview the previous year. Her ID photo in the application materials was so beautiful that it had stuck in his mind.

Shen Yibai hadn't planned to marry someone who had once applied to study in his department, but as they talked, he found Wen Ning obedient and gentle-tempered, the perfect candidate for a harmonious marriage.

He changed his mind and asked her about getting married.

3. Wen Ning didn't expect her marriage to Shen Yibai to last. She had hidden the fact that she'd applied to graduate school, their marriage registration had happened in a rush, and on their blind date, Shen Yibai had said that he would be a perfect husband, but couldn't give her love.

She thought they would eventually divorce.

Until one day at a class reunion, she had too much to drink and nearly fell while walking. A male classmate caught her in his arms, and Shen Yibai happened to see it when he came to pick her up.

When they got home that night, Wen Ning thought there was no need to explain and started for her own bedroom. But before the door had even closed, Shen Yibai crossed a line for the first time and stepped inside, pinning her against the door.

The room was pitch-black, the lights still off. His hot breath came close, and for the first time, he kissed her lips with a hard, possessive bite.

He lifted her by the buttocks as their lips and tongues were forced together. Wen Ning heard Shen Yibai's voice, low and hoarse, brimming with possessiveness, as he warned her: "Ningning, you're married. Don't see him again."

*The older man falls for her step by step.

*Dance instructor x university professor

*An innocent, reserved, naturally seductive little flower on the outside and inside x a mature gentleman on the surface, but a cunning old fox obsessed with his wife underneath

Theme: Take charge of your own happiness.