1.
Jiang Sining is a wealthy woman. She owns two apartment buildings that bring in rent, has eight figures in savings, and has a boyfriend who loves her and is ready to marry her. She thinks she has life all figured out.
She never expected even a winner like her to hit a snag. One day, she overhears her boyfriend complaining to his buddies: "Jiang Sining has such a spoiled princess attitude and such a dumb personality. She uses medicated oil as eye drops, hair dye as toothpaste, and once booked a hotel for the same date two years later. If she didn't own so many assets that my future kids will inherit, how could I stand marrying her?"
Jiang Sining immediately makes him an ex. "Let your kids inherit your run-down old house instead."
To hell with true love. He was after her money and her buildings. She might as well marry a handsome, well-bred man as rich as she was, so their child could inherit his high IQ, tall nose, long legs, and assets worth hundreds of millions from birth.
Jiang Sining hears that one of her father's old friends is also looking for a match for his son. She goes straight to Cen Yan. "I heard you're going on a blind date too. I used to think you were arrogant, but compared to the two buildings you own, a little arrogance is nothing. What do you think, should we get married so our kid can inherit four buildings from birth?"
2.
Cen Yan is thirty, cool and refined, decisive and invincible in the business world. At a young age, he founded a private equity investment firm and used an iron fist to carve out a bloody path through the capital markets.
He's proud and looks down on everyone. Over the years, every beautiful woman who tried to curry favor with him got turned away. His friends all know he married the Jiang family's young lady in a flash marriage only to appease their parents. It was simply a marriage of convenience.
One day, a unicorn company Cen Yan invested in goes public. At the celebratory banquet, his business partners raise their glasses to congratulate him, but he declines. "My wife at home doesn't like the smell of alcohol."
Everyone is astonished. At an event filled with clinking glasses, the haughty Mr. Cen doesn't touch a drop. Could even Cen Yan have become a henpecked husband?
3.
One day after they are married, Jiang Sining posts anonymously on a social platform: [I'm too shy to brag about my happiness to people around me, but I really can't hold it in anymore. I'm using a burner account as a diary. I think I'm so lucky to have married my husband...
... He's decisive and ruthless out in the world, but to him, I'm just an adorable little princess. He pampers me like a baby. I'm so happy. I love my husband so much!]
A commenter replies sourly: "You and your husband must have just gotten married. Come back after a year." Jiang Sining replies: "We've been married for three years now, and we're trying for a baby."
-- I only wanted to stack all the newbie-village buffs for my kid. I never expected to meet a husband who has maxed out his buffs in every way, letting me win big.
Financial reporter VS investment tycoon
Reader's guide:
Marriage first, love later. Both leads are each other's first and only.
Five-year age gap.
Blurb screenshot saved on May 11, 2023.
Theme: Love is salvation for ordinary people.
