Name: Falling in Love After Getting Married
Author: Meng Jinkan

Synopsis

[Complete]

[Marriage before love / mutual pining / contract relationship]

Lin Zhifu, a well-known danmei comic artist, has two secrets.

First, he suffers from severe skin hunger.

He didn't want his boyfriend to look at him strangely, so he put up with it throughout their entire year together.

Then his boyfriend dumped him, saying Lin wouldn't let him touch him.

Second, he got married in a whirlwind wedding just three days after breaking up with his ex.

To a stranger he'd met once through a matchmaking arrangement.

The man's looks and personality were exactly Lin's type, and he was also a CEO worth over a billion.

When the man handed him a contract and asked him to pretend to be a loving couple in front of his parents, Lin didn't hesitate for long before agreeing on impulse.

Even if he couldn't get the man, getting to hold his hand for a little while would be nice.

But his plans fell through, because the man seemed to have no interest in sex.

Nearly three months after marrying him and bringing him home, the man had never once crossed the line. He was simply fulfilling the terms of their contract to the letter.

Instead, Lin was left flustered by his teasing, with no way to express his frustration.

His skin hunger had become an intense longing for one person alone.

He couldn't help putting some of his own feelings into his comics. His readers teased him that his recent work had become unusually sweet and full of yearning.

Then, one day, he had another episode and forgot to lock the door. He lay on his bedroom bed, breathing raggedly and in a sorry state.

Then he heard footsteps coming from the doorway.

The man stood at the door and asked in a low voice,

"A-Fu, what are you doing?"

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He thought he was the only one who'd been plotting this for a long time.

But he never expected this was actually a long, carefully laid hunting plan.

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Reader's Guide:

1. One-on-one, happy ending

2. Marriage before love / contract relationship / mutual devotion / slow burn

3. Just a story about two lovesick people getting married before they fall in love. Warm and healing, an indulgence for particular tastes, a short story, a sweet treat after a meal.

Please add my upcoming body-swap-with-yourself novel, Adopting Myself, to your collection!

Blurb:

1.

A car accident sent Jiang Hui back fifteen years.

The only way back was to fulfill the original owner's wish.

As he walked down the gloomy alley from his memories, he saw his younger self sitting on moss-covered stone steps, hugging his knees and gazing at the night sky in the drizzling rain.

He walked past, then turned back.

He stopped before his own bleak and painful memories.

The umbrella in his hand tilted toward his younger self.

2.

Jiang Hui adopted him.

He gave the boy a new name, keeping the original owner's surname: Zhao Xi.

Xi means brightness and radiance.

He went about completing his task, and in his spare time, helped raise his younger self.

He took care of everything the boy couldn't manage, and gave him trust, support, familial affection, and love.

Everything he himself had never had.

He let the boy grow up little by little, surrounded by love.

On the tenth anniversary of adopting Zhao Xi, the day Zhao Xi turned twenty, Jiang Hui was destined to return to his own time.