Longing Until the End of Time

The Sheng family found their biological daughter, who had been living away from home. Their adopted daughter was engaged to the Chu family's young master, Chu Chengfeng. The biological daughter was supposed to fulfill the engagement instead, but no one expected the newly returned daughter to have a child out of wedlock, a three-year-old in tow.

The Sheng family didn't dare ask Chu Chengfeng to become a stepfather, so they thought they might as well discuss having the adopted daughter marry him instead.

But Chu still insisted on fulfilling the engagement with the biological daughter.

Sheng Muning took her son's hand. "Huh?"

Chu Chengfeng looked at her with those soulful eyes. "It's perfect. I'll get a kid, and the Chu family will have an heir."

The moment he said it, the Chu family elders glared at him, their faces dark with anger.

When Sheng Muning heard him say the Chu family would have an heir, her heart began to race. No one knew that her child really was Chu Chengfeng's, and he himself had no idea.

Their marriage was an agreed-upon transaction. They also agreed that after the divorce, Chu Chengfeng would give Sheng Muning and her child everything they were entitled to, along with their freedom.

Since that was the arrangement, Sheng Muning had no intention of telling him the child's true parentage.

After the wedding, she dutifully played the role of Mrs. Chu, while Chu Chengfeng remained completely unaware and played stepfather.

Everyone in their circle knew that the young master of the Chu family was willful and proud. He'd rather tinker with his directing career than inherit the family's vast business empire.

When his friends heard he'd married a woman who'd brought along a three-year-old, they all assumed the mother and child were just for show.

But no one expected what happened next.

Not long after the wedding, the place where workaholic Director Chu spent the most time each day was no longer the film set.

Before wrapping up, he even went out of his way to take amusing props from the production crew.

"Oh, my son is really into this stuff lately. He asked me to bring one home."

The crew stared in amazement. Then they saw him come back and ask, "Do you think a clingy husband would be annoying?"

[Bonus scene]

After they married, Sheng Muning and her child filled Chu Chengfeng's entire life.

At first, he wasn't used to it. He'd only married to appease his family. Sheng Muning was suitable, and besides...

Everyone on set knew Director Chu had a strange temper. If you interrupted him while he was working, he wouldn't give you the time of day.

Until everyone saw how the iron-faced King of Hell, Director Chu, clung to his wife in the car, who was on the news, and coyly begged her for a kiss. Beside him, their well-behaved child folded his arms and made a dry remark: "Dad, when Mom's really angry, even I can't calm her down."

"You'll have to figure it out yourself!"

[Romance after marriage, both leads have no other partners, male lead pursues his wife and child]

[Gentle biological heiress x proud, sharp-tongued young master]

Next book on the upcoming list: Will You Come Comfort Me Tonight?

Zhu Xinlu was thrown out of her home for avoiding an arranged marriage, and her family cut off her financial support. She'd never been one to respond well to force, so she clenched her fist and vowed, "I'd rather starve to death than spend another cent of the Zhu family's money!"

She found a job to keep herself fed. Her boss arranged room and board, then told her that a handsome new employee hired the day before was living there too, so they could look out for each other. But that night, the only instant noodles in her suitcase were stolen. Furious, she went to confront her neighbor.

The guy who opened the door wore a simple black T-shirt, with broad shoulders, a narrow waist, and long legs. His looks were model-perfect, but so what? He was still the thief who stole her instant noodles!

The handsome, cold-faced guy dismissed her accusation. "What makes you think your instant noodles would tempt me?"

Hmph. So what if he looked like an elegant young master? His room looked even poorer and more miserable than hers.

Jiang Yicheng had refused an arranged marriage out of sheer rebelliousness, so his family kicked him out, seized all his money, and cut off his chance to freeload at the companies under the family business.

He found a job that offered room and board, but the girl who'd just moved in was unbelievably stupid. Did she really think the dignified young master of the Jiang family would crave her instant noodles?

He hadn't argued with her because he was too well-mannered, restrained by his own excellent character. Jiang Yicheng hated people clinging to him. Hadn't she just run out of money for food and decided to mooch off him?

To make his life as a temporary worker more comfortable, he had no choice but to share all the bread and instant noodles he'd painstakingly saved with the girl next door, even though he was too broke to afford meals himself.

Before long, she'd started treating him like a meal ticket.

And then, somehow, they crossed the line.

Neither of them remembered who kissed whom first. Jiang Yicheng enjoyed the sweet life of supporting his girlfriend while they were both poor and broke. Whenever he earned a few hundred yuan, he'd give it to her. Whenever he found something tasty, he'd save some for her. His girlfriend had never eaten anything good and had lived a hard life since childhood. He had to take care of her.

Zhu Xinlu knew her boyfriend was broke, so every day she came up with all sorts of ways to spoil him. Even when she earned just a little money, she saved it to buy him nice clothes. Dressing her boyfriend up until he looked gorgeous was a virtue!

When they were especially in love, she'd make grand promises: "One day, I'll buy you a car."

Jiang Yicheng promised even more: "Baby, one day I'll get you a mansion worth hundreds of millions."

They laughed, but neither ever took the other's promises seriously.

Until one night, at a lavish banquet full of powerful elites, they saw each other dressed in custom couture and surrounded by admiring guests.

Zhu Xinlu: "?"

My boyfriend isn't broke?

Jiang Yicheng: "?"

I thought she was supposed to be a delicate, poor little white flower?

[Sharp-tongued, stubborn rich guy x energetic, dramatic, spoiled princess]

[Romantic tug-of-war between secret identities, antagonistic at first, mutually doting later]

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