My Childhood Friend Is Trouble [Marriage Before Love]

[Childhood Friends Turned Lovers Overnight + A Secret Crush Comes True]

1. At their class reunion, Jiang Zao sees Shen Que, her childhood friend, who is still in the middle of a cold war with her.

A little tipsy and swept up in the hazy spring night, she does the boldest thing she has ever done in her twenty-five years.

When she sobers up, she panics and immediately hops on a flight to get away.

As luck would have it, they run into each other again that same winter, at a coffee shop.

Jiang Zao asks, refusing to give up: "The blind date Mom mentioned... is it you?"

Shen Que gives a calm nod. "Mm. It's me."

Jiang Zao's eyelids twitch again and again. "I don't think we're right for each other."

"I understand that you don't want to take responsibility." Shen Que's refined, ascetic face breaks into a considerate smile.

Then, unhurriedly, he raises a hand and undoes the top button of his collar. "Then help me check whether the tooth marks you left here that night have faded."

Jiang Zao: "..."

2. One day after they get married, Jiang Zao looks through Shen Que's phone.

To her surprise, her fingerprint unlocks it.

And, to her further surprise, she finds a post visible only to her:

#ElevenYearsOfSecretLoveUntilShePulledMeIntoTheRoom#

Jiang Zao's face instantly turns red, and she bristles. Without even putting on her shoes, she rushes back to the bedroom. "Shen Que! We need to get the order of events straight. If you hadn't taken your shirt off and shown off your abs first, I never would've lost my head!"

Shen Que raises a hand to steady the waist perched on top of him. His thin lips curl into a languid smile. "Didn't you come here to settle accounts? Why is your face red again?"

Jiang Zao: "..."

Because, because she has spotted the tooth marks she left on his shoulder last night~

*This story is also titled Married by Contract to My Childhood Friend After One Night Changed Everything

*An arrogant princess with a sharp tongue but a soft heart, undone by his good looks × a refined, scheming, tea-dog childhood friend

*A lighthearted post-marriage story

Blurb dated 241107

Theme: Loving someone sincerely