After Returning Home, I Married My Ex by Agreement

[Powerful, influential top × cool, aloof beauty bottom]

Shi Jin lived abroad alone for seven years. The second time he saw his biological father after returning to China, he was forcibly dragged into a meeting with the business tycoon his father had picked as his marriage alliance partner.

Furious and startled, Shi Jin tried to escape but failed. Dozens of bodyguards cornered him in a stairwell, leaving him trapped with nowhere to go.

Just as he was pinned against the wall in a humiliating mess, his marriage partner finally arrived.

Shi Jin turned around and took a closer look.

*It was the high school boyfriend he'd unilaterally broken up with before leaving the country.

In his youth, Qin Yun lived however he pleased, never taking anything seriously. The biggest setback of his life was being dumped right after graduating high school.

Years later, he had made a name for himself, and that person had become the forbidden, haunting memory no one in their circle dared mention.

Then, at a banquet one day, someone deliberately tried to humiliate Shi Jin in front of everyone, raising a full glass of red wine to splash him.

Everyone watched as the ever-composed, cold, powerful man in charge suddenly changed expression. Before anyone could react, he spun around and stepped in front of Shi Jin, taking the wine across his whole body.

Years ago, Shi Jin was forced to leave the country. When he reunited with his first love, it was in the most humiliating of circumstances. He thought that after they married by contract, they could at least maintain a surface-level peace, while his ex-boyfriend took revenge on him behind the scenes. But to his surprise...

In winter, he was always cold and had trouble sleeping, so the temperature in the villa was kept warm as spring.

When he was sick, his stomach was delicate and he was picky about food, so dozens of chefs took turns coming up with new dishes to get him to eat more.

At a fancy gathering, someone made cutting remarks and gave him a hard time. The aloof man immediately stepped in front of him.

Later, as the contract term was about to end, his contract-marriage partner held him in the dead of night, eyes reddened as he quietly asked:

“Shi Jin, can we start over?”

1. One-on-one romance from start to finish, with intense mutual feelings. Chapters marked [Younger Days] take place before their reunion.

2. Updates are usually at midnight.

3. There is a secondary couple, and it's BL.

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A young, handsome new secretary recently joined S.K. Group. On his first day, everyone marveled at this masterpiece of beauty, yet the boss seemed to have it in for him.

Among other things, Secretary Ying wasn't allowed to drink the company's free, unlimited coffee. When the boss saw that the top two buttons of Ying's shirt were undone at the morning meeting, he glared and told him he was improperly dressed. Ying had to accompany him to every off-site meeting and even eat every meal with him. The boss would even interrogate him about where he went after work.

Soon, everyone in the secretary department was on edge, afraid they'd be the next one the boss picked on. Then, during a video conference, Secretary Ying accidentally knocked over a cup of scalding coffee. The very next second, the boss vanished from the screen. Two seconds later...

On Secretary Ying's video feed, a tall, handsome man entered the room, lifted the slender young man, and carefully set him on the desk. His voice was low and soothing:

“Be good. Stay up there and don't move.”

Then he carefully cleaned up the broken porcelain and coffee spilled all over the floor, never letting the cool, porcelain-like man set foot on the ground.

The people who had watched the whole thing unfold without warning:

What the hell? Don't you two hate each other?

Boss, why are you at Secretary Ying's place?

What the hell, boss, are you breaking into his home and kidnapping a man?!

Secretary Ying, why do you look completely unsurprised, like this is perfectly normal...

Ying Shixue realized very early on that his nominal older brother had an unusual desire to protect and possess him.

For example, when one of his friends came over to do homework, his brother would invent an excuse to look something up and stay in the study, keeping the friend from getting close to Ying Shixue. Knowing coffee gave him palpitations, his brother would ruthlessly throw out every coffee product in the house. During the practical training for his graduation project, he wouldn't let Ying Shixue go to another company, insisting on keeping him by his side and making him revise the final proposal again and again.

When Ying Shixue was nineteen, someone came to ask for his hand in marriage, bearing lavish gifts and earnestly promising to make him happy. Ying Shixue sat on the sofa behind Song Mingli as he watched his older brother, who had grown increasingly inscrutable with age, strain the veins in his arm and crush the glass in his hand.

When the Song family first brought home a young master, most people were ready to sit back and watch the drama unfold.

Without his father's favor, with an older brother whose influence had grown too powerful too soon, and in a century-old family where the waters ran deep, how long could a child without anyone to rely on survive in such a ruthless place? Outsiders watched coldly.

Then Pingcheng went through several brutal shifts in power, and everyone watched as the eldest Song son protected that beauty as if he were a priceless treasure, shielding him from every storm and hardship outside.

One day, in a high-rise bedroom, the jade-skinned beauty could barely stand, breathless from being kissed. Song Mingli looked at him, his expression dazed yet restrained.

“I love you.”

Even though he was already short of breath, Ying Shixue still smiled softly when he heard that.

“I know.”

I've always known.

Theme: Becoming better people together.