A Blissful New Marriage

Weibo: Today Is Xiao Jing

Please bookmark my next books, Winter Fairy Tale and Always Letting Me Go

Zhou Suiyi thought she and Jin Yan were just a couple who had gotten their marriage certificate and saw each other three times a week.

After all, she'd worked late nights for half a month straight and earned 1,800 yuan in night-shift bonuses. When she returned to the top-tier luxury home they shared in the capital's CBD, her husband's friends were having a party there, and they'd opened five bottles of Romanee-Conti.

When she walked in, Jin Yan was sitting on a custom-made Italian velvet sofa, smoking. He merely lifted his eyes to glance at her, his expression indifferent.

They really were people from different worlds.

-

But later, after a false alarm and a narrow escape, he kissed her forehead as though she were a treasure.

Zhou Suiyi looked up in disbelief. Jin Yan gazed at her with smiling eyes.

"Strangers in public, all over each other in private."

Gentle doctor x sharp-tongued CEO

-

Reading Guide:

1. Set in Beijing, but the details are fictionalized.

2. Both leads are each other's first.

3. Secret marriage, married first and fell in love later. A grounded, everyday story.

Please bookmark my married-first, fall-in-love-later story, Always Letting Me Go~

1.

The first time Shen Huaining met Xie Shiyan, she became so afraid of him that the fear sank into her bones.

She attended the eightieth birthday banquet of Old Master Xie with her elders.

The Xie family's sprawling estate covered dozens of hectares, its paths winding this way and that. Her elders went off with her younger sister and forgot about her, so Shen Huaining accidentally wandered into the back garden through the misty rain.

White walls, dark tiles, and sweeping eaves.

That day, a gentle drizzle fell over Nanjiang. In a covered pavilion, she saw a man in a brand-new suit that seemed completely out of place. His expression was cold and detached, his bearing imposing.

Several members of the Xie family, usually arrogant and domineering, stood before him.

As he brewed tea, Xie Shiyan calmly scolded them until they hung their heads, their faces turning pale and red by turns.

When his narrow eyes glanced over, Shen Huaining, watching from a corner, was too frightened to make a sound.

Later, he walked over, unhurried, his voice devoid of warmth. "Are you really that scared?"

Just then, her elders found her. "Ningning, this is Uncle Xie."

She was sixteen that year, too afraid to look him in the eye.

She never imagined that, as the years turned, she would become the wife of the Xie family's heir.

2.

The marriage alliance between the Xie and Shen families of Nanjiang, joining Shen Huaining and Xie Shiyan, came about by accident.

The Shen family's neglected daughter married into the Xie family, and no one thought much of the match.

Shen Huaining heard the Xie family's arrogance and indifference, along with the rumors circulating throughout the city.

In the year they'd been married, she could count on one hand the times she'd seen him. She went to the capital to study alone, and he truly never came to visit her, not once.

Even then, Shen Huaining knew she was Mrs. Xie, but Mr. Xie would never love her.

3.

That changed during the year of the Xie family's ancestral rites, attended by their vast clan.

On the mountain path's stone steps, he lifted the hem of his coat and carried her up all 1,118 moss-covered steps.

Everyone watched. No one dared look down on her again.

Before the resting place of their ancestors, he held her hand, solemn and tender.

"Ningning."

"I was the one who asked you to become Mrs. Xie."

Later, she happened to find two additional lines on their marriage document.

They were in his powerful handwriting.

"Ningning, I will be with you through frost, wind, snow, and rain."

"In life and in death, I will follow you."

Her heart suddenly gave a wrench.

Their long years together stretched ahead, and she would stand with him to protect the grandeur of the Xie family.

Theme: Treat one another with tenderness