At Last, the Rain Fell

[Marriage First, Love Later, Second Male Lead's Unrequited Love Turns into a Win, Light and Sweet!]

[Beautiful, Dramatic Streamer x Aloof Physics Professor] Weibo: @Zhong Gua A

At twenty-five, Ji Meng caught her boyfriend cheating. Under pressure from her family to get married, she threw caution to the wind and went to Shen Hexiao, who had lived next door to her when they were children, proposing they get married in a flash and pretend to be a real couple.

To her surprise, he agreed.

Shen Hexiao was now the youngest associate professor in the Astronomy Department at Sucheng University.

He was exceptionally cold and taciturn, handsome, and icy toward everyone. He was the sort of unattainable beauty no one could ever hope to win over.

After they got their marriage license, people began gossiping.

They all said the two of them were mismatched in every way, from completely different worlds, and that their marriage was destined not to last.

One especially bold student even joked with Ji Meng, "Is Professor Shen a big block of ice at home, too?"

Ji Meng nodded absently and replied offhandedly, "Ah, more or less."

And so, the story spread from one person to ten, then from ten to a hundred. By the time it reached Shen Hexiao, it had become:

[Professor Shen and his wife are having marital problems. They might be getting divorced soon.]

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A few months later, during an online lecture attended by hundreds of people, Professor Shen "forgot" to mute his mic during the break.

In the quiet online meeting room, a sweet, coquettish voice suddenly rang out.

"Hubby, when will your class be over? You promised to feed me these cherries..."

Shen Hexiao's voice was low and tender. "Be good, it'll be over soon. It's break time now. Come over and let me hug you first."

In an instant, question marks flooded the chat, and group chats everywhere exploded.

-Who said they were having marital problems?

-Does Professor Shen always talk like that at home?

-Is this really the Professor Shen I know?

*

Ji Meng had originally thought their marriage was just a performance to appease society, destined to be all show and no substance.

Until one day, she unexpectedly found Shen Hexiao's diary from when he was sixteen.

Every page was about her.

"I drift like a ferry with no boat, lost beneath an empty, rainy sky."

"And I, at last, wait for you in the rain."

1. HE, sweet romance. The heroine has an ex-boyfriend, but he's a minor character and she has no feelings for him. The hero is her first love.

2. Blurb first posted on 2023.3.8, revised on 2023.5.24, revised again on 2023.7.28.

3. To each their own. The author puts their heart into writing, so please respect one another. If you drop the story, there's no need to announce it in the comments. If it's not for you, just click the X.

The next story I'll start is The Southern Hemisphere and Hokkaido, a sweet, everyday post-marriage story. Please add it to your collection!

"Clueless heroine x Grumpy hero"

"A slow-witted, sweet researcher x A ridiculously handsome, love-struck veterinarian"

"Marriage first, love later / married life / light and sweet"

While pursuing her doctorate, Wen Shuyu took her advisor's dog to get neutered and ran into her high school classmate, Lu Zhirang.

Lu Zhirang was now a veterinarian and the owner of a chain of pet hospitals in the city, young, handsome, and gentle.

Later, through an introduction by their families, she somehow ended up marrying Lu Zhirang.

After they got married, Wen Shuyu stuck to her old routine completely. Sometimes, she even forgot there was another person living with her.

Until one day, she noticed that Lu Zhirang seemed to be unhappy quite often, giving her the cold shoulder every few days.

Wen Shuyu shut her laptop and asked him directly, "Do you have a problem with me?"

Lu Zhirang lowered his eyes, looking at the books and papers piled high on the desk, and the small, fair face buried among them.

He turned away, his eyelids drooping. "Oh, no. You go ahead and work."

It's not like she had...

Spent three straight nights sleeping in the study to work on her thesis and ignoring him, forgotten their wedding anniversary, accidentally flushed her wedding ring down the drain, stayed up all night on the phone with a senior discussing research, or gone an entire month without having sex with him (300 words omitted here).

Right. He'd just have to put up with it.

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Two months into their marriage, Lu Zhirang couldn't take it anymore and decided to talk to her.

"Wen Shuyu, I don't think you love me at all."

Wen Shuyu was baffled. Utterly baffled.

She blinked, looked at the man's puffed-up face, then rose onto her tiptoes and kissed his cheek. Her voice was soft and delicate.

"Honey, I really do love you."

Lu Zhirang's heart raced. In that moment, his mind filled with pink bubbles.

What was he supposed to do? He felt like he could put up with it all over again...

Theme: Live life well.