Sunlight on a Spring Pond

(@Yi Zhizhi Na. This is the revised version, completely different from the pirated one. If you like it, dear readers, please add it to your favorites~)

[Marriage first, love later | Long-planned romance | Ice queen descends to earth]

1.

She first meets Chu Qiyan at a lavish drinking party.

Li Yanshu had only meant to enjoy the free food and drinks, but unexpectedly gets dragged into an arranged marriage.

Under the bright lights, she boldly sizes up the Chu family's second young master.

The man lowers his eyes, his manner noble and distant. When he catches her looking, he only gives her a slight nod.

Li Yanshu: "I hear you hate vain, spoiled, showy women most of all?"

Chu Qiyan: "Hmm?"

Li Yanshu: "Well, that's me."

2

Two years into their loveless marriage, Li Yanshu gives up trying.

Maybe their ages and personalities are just too different. They married first, but love never followed.

Then filming begins for a dating reality show, and at the end of a path,

she sees the husband she hasn't laid eyes on in ages.

Chu Qiyan slowly turns around, his expression cool and distant, just like the first time they met.

Behind him, locust blossoms bloom, ushering in the first summer of the season.

"Yanshu, what did you say?"

A male guest knocks on the door and calls out.

Inside, the man holds Li Yanshu's hands tightly as she arches her neck to receive his unceasing, fervent kisses.

Between breaths, his slightly hoarse voice murmurs by her ear.

"Answer him."

3.

The news that Li Yanshu is married breaks, and the internet erupts.

Netizens: I knew this show was cursed. Every couple that gets popular is doomed to break up.

At Chu Qiyan's jewelry exhibition, a meddlesome reporter asks him:

"What do you think about your mutually chosen on-screen partner being revealed as married, and you seeming to be the other man?"

He has always refused to answer personal questions, but now he raises his eyes and says each word distinctly: "Li Yanshu is my wife."

A beautiful, spoiled trophy wife & a cold, calculating, devoted dog

Li Yanshu & Chu Qiyan

"She is like sunlight, stirring ripples in a still pond"

P.S.:

1. Both leads are each other's first.

2. The man is seven years older than the woman.

3. There is rivalry among women that isn't about competing for a man (skip if that bothers you).

Now serializing: Marriage First, Love Later, Lost Snow Mountain

[Marriage first, love later | Long-planned romance | Age gap]

1.

Mu Ci'en was born into the Mu family of the capital, where rules are strict. She detests its stifling conservatism. A romantic hedonist, she decides to fire the first shot in her rebellion.

But she never gets to start. After one night of passion, the first things she gives away aren't a check, but her ID card and household registration booklet.

Zheng Yesheng is the head of the Zheng family, a prominent clan in Hong Kong with a century of history. Refined, graceful, and coolly aristocratic, he is praised by the outside world for his self-discipline, propriety, and gentlemanly character.

On their first night as newlyweds, after reading through a family rulebook thicker than a magazine,

Mu Ci'en swallows her anger and points to the neatly folded pillow and quilt. "You. Go sleep in the guest room."

The man has just come out of the bathroom, his eyes still misted with moisture. He glances at her coolly and opens the master bedroom door.

Mu Ci'en is just beginning to celebrate when an arm suddenly wraps around her waist and hoists her up without warning.

"If you want, the guest room works too."

His voice falls coolly beside her ear.

Mu Ci'en: "!?"

2.

Married life is still far too boring.

After being reminded for the thirty-eighth time to sit properly, and the forty-second time not to talk while eating, Mu Ci'en decides to get a divorce.

Knowing how much Zheng Yesheng values the rules, she deliberately stomps all over the line.

Watching male models walk the runway up close, tipping handsome streamers seven figures every day for thirty days straight, inviting handsome guys to a uniform-themed party...

The good news: Zheng Yesheng agrees to divorce her.

The bad news: Zheng Yesheng gets into a car accident and loses his memory, reverting to the mind of his eighteen-year-old self. He doesn't remember agreeing to the divorce.

"We agreed on this before you lost your memory. Sign it."

In the hospital room, Mu Ci'en dresses extravagantly in a way Zheng Yesheng hates and arrogantly taps the divorce papers with her pen.

"We don't get along anyway. Let's end this on good terms."

Sitting on the hospital bed, the man gazes at her for a long moment and raises an eyebrow. "Is that so?"

The next second, he slowly unbuttons his hospital gown and points to a bite mark on his collarbone. "Isn't this yours?"

3.

To trick eighteen-year-old Zheng Yesheng into signing the papers,

Mu Ci'en endures all sorts of indignities, but somehow things go off track.

In the bright morning light,

a passionate kiss lands once more on her damp lashes.

"Between me and him, who's better?"

She answers instinctively, "You..."

"Baby..."

The man lets out a low, magnetic laugh, his actions more forceful than ever before.

"Wrong answer."

A free-spirited, romantic heiress of the capital & a realist Daddy from Hong Kong

Mu Ci'en & Zheng Yesheng

"Je t’adore toujours means, "I will always adore you""

P.S.:

1. Seven-year age gap.

2. His memory loss is real.

3. The male lead is of mixed Chinese and Swiss heritage, with one blue eye and one black eye.

Theme: A healthy relationship means choosing each other, then becoming better versions of yourselves