Cherry Blossom Sugar, Pale and Sweet

Marriage before love | Sweet romance

Noble, refined, fatherly man x gentle, steadfast designer

At twenty, Chu Ying did something utterly reckless: she married a stranger she'd met only once.

The man was blessed with striking looks, noble and composed, elegant and refined. His blue apatite cuff links looked understated and subdued under the lights.

At the time, Shi Yubai was the group's chief operating officer and the renowned sole head of the Shi family of Beicheng, while Chu Ying was merely an ordinary design intern.

After their wedding, they hardly ever saw each other unless it was necessary.

Until one day, at a dinner gathering, the bar lights glowed in a dazzling haze.

When Chu Ying went out to the terrace, she saw the composed, noble man casually clinking glasses with his friends.

One of them asked him about his marriage.

"It's not like I love her," Shi Yubai said carelessly through the blue-gray smoke. "Grandma liked her, so I married her to have some fun."

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Everyone in Beijing's elite circles knew that Shi Yubai was famously indifferent to women and cold-hearted. He'd married a young woman only to fulfill his grandmother's wish.

Everyone around them assumed she'd surely be mistreated, destined either to spend her life in a loveless marriage or to be abandoned by Third Master Shi before long.

But after an auction, someone saw the man bend down and put the priceless pink crystal necklace he'd just won around the neck of the woman in his car.

Chu Ying sniffed and looked at the delicate crystal around her neck. "Was this expensive?"

The tenderness and adoration in the usually restrained and aloof Shi Yubai's eyes nearly overflowed.

He leaned in and pointed to his lips, coaxing her. "If you like it,"

"then kiss me right here."

Reader's Guide:

1. Marriage before love

2. Happy ending

3. Six-year age gap between the leads. The heroine skipped two grades in high school

4. Both leads are each other's first and only

Theme: Pursue a beautiful life