A Marriage After Making It Ashore

Daddy Dom | Age Gap | Marriage First, Love Later (Strangers, No Secret Crush) | Tension and Push-Pull

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After Zhu Ni's boyfriend graduated in his senior year, he passed the national civil service exam with flying colors. Zhu Ni, meanwhile, failed her interview by 0.02 points, coming in second on the waiting list.

His first act after landing the job was to dump the girl he loved. He broke up with Zhu Ni before the results were even officially posted.

After graduation, Zhu Ni returned to Jiangwu City. Facing her family's relentless pressure to marry, and her own wish to get married before her zodiac year, she embarked on a series of blind dates.

But they didn't go as smoothly as she'd imagined.

With neither her career nor her love life going well, Zhu Ni went to a bar to drown her sorrows. The low-alcohol drinks left her pleasantly tipsy. Through the haze, she spotted a man sitting not far away, dressed in a finely tailored suit. His long, well-defined fingers lazily loosened his bow tie. Perhaps sensing her gaze, he turned his head, and Zhu Ni's eyes met his without warning.

His gaze was cold and deep. Zhu Ni felt she was about to drown in those ocean-deep eyes.

With the alcohol emboldening her, Zhu Ni walked over, grabbed the Windsor knot at his collar, and kissed him hard.

The world spun. A night of passion followed.

The next morning, once sober, Zhu Ni fled in a panic, hoping to leave the man from last night behind, lost somewhere between mountains and sea.

But when she got to work, she heard that a new leader had been sent from above to inspect the office. Distracted, Zhu Ni stood at the back of the line. She happened to look up and met the new leader's eyes. Zhu Ni was stunned.

The new leader was him?!

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Pei Jinze has a distinctive style at work, just like he does in person: cold and serious, swift and decisive, never dragging things out. Yet he also has a dangerous, captivating face, aloof as snow and beyond anyone's reach. His appearance is a perfect contrast to his restrained, ascetic temperament. It's hard to imagine what sort of person someone like Pei Jinze would walk down the aisle with.

Even Pei Jinze himself never imagined that one reason he transferred to Jiangwu for work was to escape his elders' pressure to marry.

But one day, a young woman who was pretending nothing had happened came to him in a panic, tears in her voice as she said she might be pregnant.

Pei Jinze's heart softened all at once.

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