Journeying to the Snowy Mountains

[Pre-Release: Not Close After Marriage] Please add this to your collection, sob!

Gentle, delicate traditional Chinese medicine clinic owner vs. coldhearted heir to a wealthy merchant family | Intense, flirtatious push and pull x marriage first, love later | The male lead looks refined and gentlemanly, but is actually gloomy, obsessive, beautiful, tragic, and ruthless

Pei Mansheng was born into a scholarly family in Jiangzhou. She was beautiful, gentle, and refined.

Reserved and dignified, she once became an internet sensation after giving an interview. Some people even came from afar, pretending to be ill just to catch a glimpse of her, much to Pei Mansheng's dismay.

Then a man traveled all the way from Jingxi, carrying a medical record and wearing a gentle, distinguished smile.

"Hello. I've suffered from a chronic illness for years. Dr. Pei, do you have any insight?"

At the man's request, she took his pulse. He moved with elegant ease as he removed his coat and rolled up his sleeve, revealing a pale, slender wrist with a prominent bone. His long, beautiful fingers looked like a carefully sculpted work of art.

Pei Mansheng was dazzled at first sight. She lowered her head to hide the turbulent desire in her eyes. Her jade-like fingers lightly touched his arm, and even her breathing grew uneven.

Because he was Jingxi's youngest man in power.

2.

On the night the Pei family was rocked by a shocking scandal, Pei Mansheng had nowhere left to turn.

As thunder and lightning raged, Pei Mansheng knocked on Ji Qinglin's door. It was the middle of the night, and the man answered in a languid, casual pose.

His eyes lowered to take in Pei Mansheng, soaked and disheveled from head to toe, and he asked coolly what she wanted.

"Can I borrow your influence again?"

Pei Mansheng lowered her eyes, rainwater staining her fair cheeks. "I'll repay you."

Ji Qinglin was silent for a long moment, then smiled gently. "Of course."

"You can borrow it however you like, Dr. Pei."

3.

Later, Pei Mansheng became an online sensation for her traditional Chinese medicine recipes and wellness advice, and netizens couldn't stop gushing.

[Elegant scoundrel in a suit, savage in the streets x healing beauty in a qipao, if you don't ship this couple, you're missing out!]

[Pei is so gentle and beautiful, and President Ji is devoted and rich. Mom and Dad, I want to eat only three meals a day for the rest of my life.]

[My first choice is for Pei and President Ji to have an only daughter, sob.]

[Don't ship them just yet. If I'm not mistaken, President Ji is based on that man from the Fu family in Jingxi... But he's already married, and he's not even from Jingxi, okay?!]

[Pei really isn't from Jingxi...]

As netizens celebrated and shipped the couple, the car door opened in front of Minghe Hall on a rainy night.

The man came through the rain, his brows lowered and his expression icy. His polished shoes landed in measured steps on the gleaming black stone of a villa in the outskirts of the capital. The chill in his eyes faded as he looked at the terrified Pei Mansheng, who was trying to leave.

Without changing expression, he stepped inside and turned his wrist slightly.

He hooked a finger into Pei Mansheng's thick, dark hair as it trembled softly. His voice was cool and detached. "Are you leaving?"

"It's foggy tonight. Why don't you wait a little longer?"

"Mr. Ji! The divorce papers are already in the study!"

But he picked her up and pressed her onto the desk, his burning breath nearly swallowing her whole.

The man, usually so cool and composed, looked utterly defeated. His voice, murmured by her ear, was filled with unbearable obsession. "Dr. Pei, don't treat me like this."

"My heart is sick, and it's hard to cure. You can save me."

Not long afterward, the Fu family of Jingxi made a special appearance to clear things up on the social media platform.

Verified Fu Family Account: [Retweet this post if you ship Dr. Pei and our boss, and enter to win a Jiangzhou mansion worth a million! Our boss's wife is Dr. Pei!! Please, everyone, ship them! If you don't, our boss is going to hijack the company account to profess his love to his wife!]

Tips

- Older dom male lead vs. highly sensitive, delicate female lead

- Both leads are a little messed up, with extremely wild and twisted tastes.

- A purely sweet and sensual romance. Yes, that kind of sensual (hey!)

- The female lead is highly sensitive. If you don't like my heroine, please leave right now, or this will be painful for you to read!!

- Lots of headcanon. The only thing I guarantee is that my leads are absolutely, madly in love, the kind who want nothing but each other. Pure romance-brained idiots.

Theme: Love is truth