Spring's Sudden Snowstorm [Marriage Before Love]

[Add to your reading list: The Pearl of Luxury, a similar story featuring a status gap and marriage before love]

Blurb:

Li Xian is brought home by her biological parents, and the first thing they do is arrange a marriage for her.

Her new husband is the current head of the Meng family, a man of high standing who rarely appears in public.

After spending twenty-five years living among ordinary people, Li Xian doesn't give up her job as a reporter after marriage. She rushes around all night, looking worn and haggard, often bending over backward just to make ends meet. Compared with the society ladies at the same tea party, she's like mud beside clouds.

One day, while turning the soil in the garden, she glances back and finds someone drinking tea in the pavilion, moving in no hurry.

In the faint snowfall, Li Xian curls her mud-covered fingers and asks, "Mr. Meng, will you stay for dinner?"

The butler politely replies, "Mr. Meng will be leaving shortly. Please have dinner at your convenience, Madam."

That day, she suddenly remembers their first meeting.

The private room door had opened a crack. The person inside was surrounded by admirers. Then he turned his head to look over, lifting his chin and slightly lowering his eyelids.

Someone beside Li Xian hesitated before saying, "That's Meng Ke."

Through the gap in the door, the man inside seemed to look down on the world with an air of innate superiority.

No one knew that a man so aloof and proud would one day travel through the night for her.

A light dusting of snow lay on his shoulders, and mud dampened his trouser cuffs. His voice was weary as he said, "This marriage is just a marriage. You are you."

"If I can take it up,"

"I never intended to put it down."

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I am an endless blizzard.

If you look at me, I will melt gently.

Mia Couto | Jerusalem

| An arrogant elitist tycoon x a lucky little reporter

| Marriage before love, old flames rekindled, nine-year age gap

Upcoming: The Pearl of Luxury

The elders of the Zhao and Yang families go way back, but Yang Ying and Zhao Peiqian have had little to do with each other. She never expected him to suddenly suggest marriage.

It was snowing that day, and she had to go out to the suburbs. Zhao Peiqian sent a driver to take her there, then abruptly said something that left her stunned.

"Why?" he summed up her question.

"Because you're capable of handling things cleanly and discreetly, and you're respectable enough."

The lamplight flickered, barely illuminating the man's cool, distant profile. He reached out and slid a ring toward her.

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Later, after making enemies, Yang Ying is plagued by scandals, and the carefully maintained image she's cultivated collapses overnight. She blows a kiss at an actor, confirming the rumors that her marriage into the wealthy family has fallen apart.

Her gaze shifts to the man behind the curtain, who should be at a meeting in the Southern Hemisphere.

The wealthy family's head looks at her from afar, his smile faintly cold. He mouths, Fine. You've got some nerve, making me angry.

No one knows that in a cramped, dim stairwell, Yang Ying pants as she pushes away the man pinning her in place. "What did you come back for?"

Thinking he's come to confront her, she braces herself defensively.

"I came back to see you."

Zhao Peiqian lowers his eyes and brushes his thumb over the corner of her eye.

It was an unbearably difficult night. He was the only one who saw her vulnerability.

He alone, exhausted from traveling thousands of miles, wiped away her tears.

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Love is giving her a lifetime of dazzling luxury.

| A low-profile director x an arrogant man at the top

| Contract relationship / marriage before love

| Age gap / old flames rekindled

Theme: Be a free, brave, and passionate lover