[Free-spirited, cheerful heiress VS proud, pretentious, brooding schemer]
Yu Ling is the eldest daughter of the Yu family. The man sitting across from her is her arranged-marriage partner, Pei Jingchuan.
Pei Jingchuan is the real young master of the Pei family, who was lost years ago.
He's also one of the three male leads in a 1V3 story. All three men fall for Wen Tong, the ditzy, beautiful secretary.
Yu Ling is the ex-wife of one of the male leads, who divorces her to be with the heroine.
She barely registers in the story, more like a background character, and Pei Jingchuan doesn't pay her much attention either.
They meet only a handful of times over the course of three years.
Yu Ling cheerfully signs a three-year marriage contract, pays the final installment, and then waits to say goodbye.
She can't understand this kind of love, but she respects it.
She feels that whoever gets to marry her must have had their ancestral graves explode with good fortune in their past life.
After all, sensible wives are hard to come by these days.
Arranged marriage is so awful. You can't even pursue true love as you please, just endless money. Her cheeks are going to split from smiling.
Pei Jingchuan is a shrewd, calculating businessman. People say he chose the Yu family's marriage partner to secure a business deal.
So many families had sought the hand of the Yu family's eldest daughter, a pretty, quiet, reserved young woman. No one expected her to end up with Pei Jingchuan.
Everyone came up with all sorts of conspiracy theories.
That is, until the first day after the wedding, when he heard the thoughts of this seemingly obedient young woman, and then he couldn't stop listening.
[This is so annoying. Can I blink and skip straight to three years from now?]
[Someone else told me they like me today? I'm married and they still won't stop chasing me! My charm is as amazing as ever.]
[Why would Pei Jingchuan and those other two men all fall for the same woman?]
[Oh no! If I want a divorce early, will I have to pay compensation? I'm clearly the one who got hurt.]
Pei Jingchuan really wants to see what's inside this airheaded heiress's head.
He does the laundry and cooking every day, goes to that dead-end job to give her spending money, and went to the ends of the earth to marry her. Yet all she thinks about is divorce. Like hell he's letting her go.
He should stop cooking for her and let her starve.
Reader's guide: The male lead clawed his way out of a mountain village. His background is not as simple as it seems, and there are twists later on.
The male lead is more scheming than a strand of hair.
Theme: Persevere and strive for self-improvement.