★ Marriage first, love later: flirtatious little charmer x refined young gentleman
The Chen family is poor, but their daughter, Chen Jiayin, is as lovely as a fairy. Her family has doted on her since childhood, and everyone around her likes her too.
Everyone, that is, except for Meng Yinli, the haughty young heir of the Meng family, who has always looked down on her.
When Old Master Meng said he would find her a match, the red thread he tied ended up binding her to the elegant and refined Meng Yinli.
The old master asked if she was willing.
She replied, "I am."
At a party, Chen Jiayin showed up alone, though she was supposed to bring a date.
People gossiped: "I heard Meng Yinli and his wife got married just to fool his grandfather! They're about to divorce. They're fighting about it now."
As everyone waited to see Chen Jiayin make a fool of herself, Meng Yinli appeared with a cold expression and put the high heel she had lost back on her foot.
"So this is what you meant when you said they were about to divorce?! The dignified Meng Yinli kneels to put his wife's shoe on. You call that getting divorced?!"
His grandfather wanted him to marry Chen Jiayin, and he had no objections.
It made no difference who he married.
Meng Yinli didn't have a particularly good impression of Chen Jiayin, but it wasn't bad either. All he remembered was that she was an extremely pampered girl.
After their wedding, the pampered Chen Jiayin became a vivid presence in his life.
His dull days began to change.
One day, Chen Jiayin suddenly said, "Let's get divorced. Name your terms."
"Have a child with me."
"If we're having a child, why get divorced?"
Meng Yinli turned the Buddhist beads on his left wrist, his eyes dark with turbulent desire. "Exactly. If we're having a child, why get divorced?"
Written on 2024.4.15
Theme: Happiness, day after day
