Sneaking Through the Spring Night [Marriage Before Love]

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[Composed, aloof, and calculating] x [Radiant, passionate, and spoiled]

#Keywords: Marriage before love / Two powerful families / Angsty drama / Two men vying for her / Feel-good story / Sweet Mary Sue romance / Family secrets#

Wei Jia, daughter of a Jingzhou property tycoon, is dazzlingly beautiful and headstrong, with a wild streak. She was born with a defiant attitude and is one of the most formidable women in Jingzhou's elite circles. What she hates most is a pompous young master.

Lang Jindu, head of a distinguished Jingzhou family, is noble and illustrious. He's renowned as a man of lofty virtue, as tranquil as a deep pool and as imposing as a mountain. Cool and restrained, he's an untouchable flower atop a high peak. He, in turn, usually keeps his distance from spoiled, high-maintenance heiresses.

No one would ever connect two people who disliked each other so much.

But in truth, they've been married for two years.

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In the final year of her contract marriage with Lang Jindu, Wei Jia finished her studies abroad, and the two began living together for the remainder of their marriage.

Wei Jia didn't know much about her husband. While she was studying abroad, he would cross eight time zones every month to spend a few days with her, send her gifts regularly, and win over all her relatives. Like other men, he was a perfectionist who maintained the image of a decent, perfect husband in public.

They each had their own reasons for marrying. She assumed they'd get divorced once their three-year contract was up.

Until one day, her mother-in-law paraded around with another woman, pretending to be Wei Jia...

"Let's part on good terms. Don't make this ugly," Wei Jia said. "We're only in a contract marriage for three years, after all."

The man, always so dignified and unfeeling, gently grazed his teeth over her swollen red lips. His voice was cool and detached. "Who told you it was only three years? Hmm?"

Content warnings:

※ The female lead has had boyfriends before; the male lead has not.

※ Bittersweet romance, one-on-one.

Theme: Love is an undying desire.