Originally titled Bitter Moon. I'll start posting when it reaches 300 follows. Please, please click the star 🥺
Gentle high school teacher x scum, arrogant heir to an aristocratic family
"She couldn't find spring, and willingly threw herself into the swamp of love."
Wen Songyue never imagined she would marry the man she'd had a crush on for eight years.
At her alma mater's centennial celebration, she heard from an alumnus that Kan Xun's family was arranging blind dates for him. Her career was going badly, her family was pressuring her to marry, and she was hiding in a supply closet, crying. He caught her in that embarrassing state and handed her a handkerchief.
He asked, "How about we try getting married?"
Wen Songyue always thought Kan Xun didn't love her, but since he was willing to marry her, at least he didn't dislike her. She could wait patiently for him to notice how she felt.
Until one day, at a dinner with friends, she heard one of them ask him why he'd married her.
Kan Xun answered indifferently, "She seemed well-behaved. I didn't expect her to be so much trouble."
She made things difficult for him.
It turned out that, in Kan Xun's eyes, Wen Songyue was a nuisance.
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Kan Xun and Wen Songyue married because circumstances forced them to.
She was quiet, obedient, and sensible, always going along with everything. She had a respectable education and job, and her family was pleased with her. Not only did the younger generation like her, but even his cat was always following her around.
Their married life lacked passion and excitement, but they were very compatible in one particular area. Whenever he saw her teary eyes and her flushed ears and neck, he couldn't help teasing her until she gave him everything.
For a while, Kan Xun thought he'd grow old with Wen Songyue in their unremarkable life together.
Until one day, Wen Songyue said she wanted a divorce.
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Wen Songyue and Kan Xun came from completely different worlds.
One was born into a family of wealth and status, a star in his social circle and a favored child of heaven.
The other came from an ordinary family and had a mild, quiet disposition.
No one would ever have thought to connect them, let alone believed they'd been married.
But later, people in their social circle began saying that the eldest young master of the Kan family had gone insane, begging a woman to take him back like a stray dog.
"Little Moon, please, take pity on me."
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2015.9.21
I want you to look at me, and yet I hope you don't.
I'm so conflicted.
2015.11.3
If I had a superpower, it would be invisibility, so I could stand beside you without you noticing.
2016.3.11
My birthday wish at sixteen was for the person I liked to notice me.
2016.12.31
I'm sorry I can't even make a confession without leaving out the subject. I wish you could figure it out.
Wen Songyue had a diary full of metaphors for loving someone, written in tiny, cramped lines.
By the time Kan Xun understood it, it was already too late.
Reader's Guide:
* Steady and honest vs. aloof and world-weary
* Marriage first, love later; they divorce midway, then the woman who secretly loved him is pursued by him. He gets trained like a dog later on.
* They fulfill their marital duties as normal, and are physically attracted to each other.
* Bittersweet angst | messy push and pull | both leads suffer | unleashed kinks
* Both leads have no romantic history. The male lead has no unrequited love or ex.
Theme: The weight of a tear depends on whose cheek it falls upon
