My Contract Husband Is Both Scheming and Unhinged

Blurb:

A: The receiving partner's perspective

After his father died unexpectedly, his stepmother and her adopted son tried to take over the company. Tan Ziyi, who was studying abroad, was forced to put his studies on hold and return home to deal with the family affairs.

A year later, just as he'd finally gotten the company back on track and secured a massive project to develop the Zhaohai scenic area with investment from the Xiao family, he discovered that the person named to carry out the proposal he'd submitted had been changed to his adopted stepbrother.

How could he let that stand?

Tan Ziyi immediately took his revised proposal to Old Master Xiao.

After hearing the whole story, the old man accepted his new proposal. Just as Tan Ziyi thought everything was settled and was about to breathe a sigh of relief, the old man asked, "How old are you this year?"

Huh???

Do I look like the kind of person who'd be forced into marriage for the good of the company? Or the kind of person who'd marry a lunatic?

That's right. Tan Ziyi looked into it afterward and found out that the old man's newly recovered legitimate grandson was a lunatic, always doing bizarre things no one could see coming...

How could I possibly fall for a lunatic like that???

But later, not only did someone fall for him, he fell for him hard...

B: The pursuing partner's perspective

The first time Xiao Xingzhou saw Tan Ziyi, all he could think was, "Wow, this guy's bold. He's actually stopping a car in public."

Since Old Master Xiao wanted to find him a suitable match, Xiao Xingzhou had an idea. Rather than let the old man arrange things, why not find someone who wasn't part of the plan?

But no matter how carefully he'd plotted, he never expected an ordinary business marriage to become something he couldn't pull himself away from.

He gazed gloomily at the sky, thinking to himself: I need to figure out what to do. What if my wife finds out one day that I pretended to be crazy to trick him and wants a divorce?!

Seemingly crazy but secretly scheming pursuer * Seemingly cold but actually soft-hearted recipient

A warm, everyday story about two mature men gradually falling in love

PS: Modern alternate setting, same-sex marriage is legal, one-on-one romance, both are each other's first, updated daily at 11:30 a.m. I will never abandon this story.

Oh my god, I'm really terrible at writing blurbs. It's my fault, I really need to learn. I spent seven whole days and managed to come up with just six characters.

Waaah, this is my first story of 2024. I, He Ergou, have finally crawled back out of my hole~ I swear I won't ever miss an update. Okay, go, Ergouzi!!!

Theme: Even when mired in the mud, keep your heart turned toward the light.