A Day-and-Night Wedding

[Soldier x Doctor / Marriage First, Love Later / Love Grows Over Time] A month after they parted, Song Chengxi finally received a message from her newlywed husband: "Sorry, it's not very convenient to get in touch lately." Leaning against the folding bed in her department, Song Chengxi typed: "Would it be convenient to send me a photo?" Huo Tingzhou: "Hmm?" Song Chengxi: "I don't remember what you look like." Apart from the green military uniform on their marriage certificate, she had no recollection of his features. * They first met after getting married because of work. They went in and out together at mealtimes, and their colleagues teased them about it plenty. Huo Tingzhou was afraid she'd feel awkward, but Song Chengxi was perfectly calm. "We're both aboveboard, so what are you worried about?" In public and in private, she called him Captain Huo, and he called her Doctor Song. They were polite and proper, yet distant. * At first, Song Chengxi waited for him by the camp's main gate. Later, she started waiting beside a big tree a hundred meters outside the hospital. Huo Tingzhou pulled the furtive woman into a corner, his rough fingers circling her slender waist. "Didn't you say we were aboveboard?" His ramrod-straight back bent toward her, his breath warming the hair over her forehead. "What are you afraid of now?" Coming next: "Love Between the Tides," a story about the male lead's younger sister, featuring a powerful Beijing socialite x a Jiangnan beauty~ Blurb: Three months into her arranged marriage, Huo Xien learns that her husband has suddenly died at his own hotel. The coroner's report says he'd recently engaged in vigorous sexual activity with another person. Huo Xien can hardly summon the slightest grief for this strange husband, who rushed abroad after they got their marriage certificate and started cheating as soon as he returned. Looking at the body in the crystal coffin, all she can think is that karma always comes around, and no one escapes heaven's justice. May every man who can't keep it in his pants end up just like this corpse. On a dark, windy night, the branches in the funeral home's courtyard are stiff with cold, their leaves rustling like the cries of wild ghosts. Someone steps out of the back of a silver Bentley and drapes a coat, still warm from his body, over her shoulders beneath the cold starlight. "Sister-in-law, my condolences." * Huo Xien knows full well that not one of the Pei men is any good. The eldest is her unlucky, recently widowed, philandering, cheating husband. The youngest is an idle layabout who lives off his parents full-time. As for the one in the middle, they say he nearly sent his own father to prison to seize power. Now she can add one more thing to the list: Seduce his brother's widow. The day she returns to Jiangnan, the station is packed with people. Pei Yue buys her ticket and walks her to the platform. He watches the scrolling electronic sign showing Beijing-Suzhou, while her gaze falls on the pinky ring on his little finger. "After my brother died, you were no longer husband and wife." "You and I are aboveboard." "If you change your mind, come back to me." Later, Pei Yue travels to Suzhou alone. In a little Jiangnan courtyard tucked into an alley, Huo Xien is helping a guest hang laundry. White sheets sway and billow in the wind. A hand gently brushes the loose hair from the corner of her mouth. The pinky ring catches the light, sparkling like rippling water. "I forgot to tell you that day." "Even if you don't change your mind, that's all right. I'll come to you eventually." [Powerful Beijing Socialite x Jiangnan Beauty] Theme: Give sincerity, receive sincerity.