After Successfully Forcing a Marriage in the Eighties

Blurb:

Tang Shuwei woke up in the body she'd had in her previous life, on her wedding day. She thought something was off, but her mind was still foggy.

The wedding was hurried and chaotic, her parents looked awkward and distressed, and the groom wore a forced smile...

The original owner had an adoptive older brother with no blood relation to her, the son of a family her parents had taken in. He was gentle, outstanding, and handsome. The original owner had long been in love with him, and when she learned he was going abroad to study, she threatened to kill herself unless he married her. He agreed.

Tang Shuwei believed that the person she had been in her previous life was still her. She had to correct her past mistakes in time and not let Xing Wang suffer for the rest of his life because of her selfishness. So, at the right moment, she asked for a divorce.

She sat up straight, her expression solemn. "Let's get divorced." She thought Xing Wang would happily agree, but something unexpected happened...

Xing Wang ate his meal slowly. He neither agreed nor refused, and never stopped smiling. The room was so quiet that all they could hear was the clink of chopsticks and bowls. Just as Tang Shuwei started to feel uneasy, he suddenly spoke. "You say we should get married, so we get married. You say we should get divorced, so we get divorced. What do you take me for? A plaything?"

His interrogation caught her off guard. Before she could think of how to answer, he suddenly came closer and gripped her wrist, pulling her toward him. They were inches apart, their breath mingling. He stared at her like a wolf, and his unchanging smile finally disappeared. Leaning close to her ear, he said quietly, "Divorce? Not happening. You were the one who got me involved, so you'll never get divorced for as long as you live."

That night, Tang Shuwei looked at the arm wrapped tightly around her waist and felt a little helpless. She gently tried to push it away, but the person behind her held her even tighter. She said weakly, "Y-you're holding me too tight. I can't breathe..."

The person behind her was silent for a moment, then slowly loosened the arm around her waist.

Tang Shuwei sighed inwardly. What else could she do? She was the one in the wrong. Even if he was a crazy obsessive type, she could only let him have his way.

[SC, one-on-one romance, many author-created details. Just read for fun, don't overthink it. All universities and locations in the story are fictional. Anti-piracy setting: 60%.]

[Upcoming story: The Cold, Neglectful Wife in a Period Novel Awakens. If you're interested, please add it to your favorites!]

Blurb:

Shu Ying and Li Guyan had been married for two years and always treated each other with respect. Then she discovered that she was merely a supporting character in a period novel starring Li Guyan.

In the book, Li Guyan was a business tycoon with a wife he'd been living apart from. After meeting the heroine, a whole series of entanglements unfolded.

Shu Ying was that wife, the one who'd lived apart from him for years before eventually divorcing him.

Shu Ying: ...

After finishing the book, Shu Ying patted her chest and said sincerely that, given the way the two of them treated each other now, it really wouldn't be surprising if they ended up living apart.

They'd been married for two years without ever losing their tempers or arguing. In a way, they were certainly a well-matched couple, sharing a strange and infuriating understanding: they both deliberately avoided arguments, hid every resentment and grievance in their hearts, then turned around and acted as though nothing had happened.

After reading the book, Shu Ying thought it over and over. They'd once been passionately in love, so how had things ended up like this? Maybe it was because she had rejected him time and again. Maybe they were both too proud to be the first to back down.

But in her opinion, she couldn't be blamed for turning him down. She had to work the next day, after all. How could they stay up fooling around until midnight every night?

Shu Ying wondered: Should they live apart and divorce, or should she take the initiative and break the ice?

*

Li Guyan and Shu Ying met through matchmaking. Because housing allocations were limited, he had to marry immediately to qualify, so their second meeting was at the marriage registration office.

Shu Ying was the first person he'd ever fallen for, which was why he'd agreed to marry her so quickly. But after the wedding, she rejected his advances again and again, and he couldn't understand why, until one day he accidentally learned that Shu Ying had a first love, who had just gotten married two days before her matchmaking date with him.

Now her rejections made sense. There was someone else in her heart.

From then on, Li Guyan gave up on romance and treated their marriage as a practical arrangement.

[Reader's note: It's all a misunderstanding.]

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