[The story is complete~ Starting a careful edit, with bonus side stories dropping at random! Please leave a completion rating~ My next story is Qing Shi Lane. The blurb is below↓ If you like it, please add it to your favorites! *sob.jpg*]
Jiang Ruoqi had only met Meng Shang four times before deciding to marry him.
The first time was at a friend's wedding in Hong Kong. He was the groom's childhood friend and best man, while she was the bride's coworker and close friend. At the after-party, the bride took advantage of being on home turf and insisted on playing matchmaker. So Jiang Ruoqi named Meng Shang outright.
The second time, Jiang Ruoqi accepted an assignment from a Hong Kong conglomerate that was a promotion in title but a demotion in practice. She returned to Xinhai as the marketing director of a subsidiary, while Meng Shang came to show her around apartments at someone else's request.
It was a difficult time, and her friends were all urging her to change jobs. Jiang Ruoqi wavered, but in the end she gave up on the idea. She was lazy by nature and couldn't be bothered to adjust to a whole new workplace and new coworkers. Besides, she wasn't from Guangdong or Guangxi and didn't want to settle in the Greater Bay Area. She would have to return to the mainland eventually.
The third time, Jiang Ruoqi treated Meng Shang to dinner to thank him for helping her move. After dinner, the two went for a walk and talked about love and marriage.
Meng Shang asked her, "How long do you think people should date before getting married?"
Her answer was frighteningly direct: "If you're asking me, tomorrow would be fine."
The fourth time, Jiang Ruoqi arranged to meet Meng Shang at a premarital screening clinic. Dr. Meng, a renowned cardiac surgeon, hesitated briefly at the entrance, while Ms. Jiang calmly and frankly explained herself.
"The premarital screening is free. Since we'd be legally married and long-term sexual partners, getting checked and ruling out any risks is essential. Is there a problem? Or do you have another regular sex partner? If you do... then we'll have to reconsider this marriage. I can't accept a third person..."
Jiang Ruoqi had no filter, and the people around them were clearly eager for gossip.
The usually reserved and refined Dr. Meng gritted his teeth, almost wanting to cover Jiang Ruoqi's mouth right there. "I don't have a sex partner, and I have no objection to getting checked! Let's go in now."
After they married, Meng Shang thought they would support each other through life. But Jiang Ruoqi was so independent that he began to feel he had no purpose as her partner. She never needed him for anything, except when they shared a bed.
Until one day, Dr. Meng finally realized that his seemingly even-tempered wife would pick at the calluses and dead skin around her nails whenever she got anxious, unless she had a manicure. She picked at her long, fair fingers until the skin around her nails was mottled and red, leaving only a thin layer of tender flesh to cover the bone.
Meng Shang's heart ached at the sight.
He knelt in front of her, caught her struggling hands, and carefully wrapped each finger with protective bandages.
Jiang Ruoqi stared at the silly cartoon pattern on her fingertips and, clearly displeased, held them up to Meng Shang. "Director Meng, how am I supposed to go to work tomorrow looking like this?"
Meng Shang stood up and pulled Jiang Ruoqi, who was perched on the arm of the sofa, into his arms. His well-defined hand enclosed hers.
"This is your punishment. When you remember to go to Dr. Meng when you get anxious, you won't have to wear these to work anymore."
Meng Shang fell in love after they married.
Jiang Ruoqi, on the other hand, fell for him on a rainy day sometime after she transferred schools.
Mature leads, marriage first, love later
Both are each other's first
A fairy tale for two overworked adults
Blurb dated 2024.8.15
#Coming next# Qing Shi Lane blurb↓
When Ji Shuhe was fourteen, she found a little puppy.
The month-old puppy was weak and would die without anyone to care for it, but she couldn't take it home.
Ji Shuhe's parents both worked out of town, so she had no choice but to stay with her grandparents. Their old house was in one of Xinhai's old lanes, dim and damp all day long. Her room was so cramped she could barely turn around, and there was no private bathroom. Even the kitchen was shared.
Young Ji Shuhe was at her wits' end and nearly in tears when the neighbor next door walked by, took the puppy from her, and arbitrarily named it Chestnut.
His name was Wen Shaoyu. He was a year older than Ji Shuhe and lived with his grandmother in Yong'an Lane. The boy was handsome and refined. When he ran into Ji Shuhe, he had just come back from somewhere. His fringe and school shirt collar were damp and disheveled, and he had a scrape on his face, the skin broken and bleeding.
Fourteen-year-old Ji Shuhe was afraid of him.
They first met at a bend in the lane. She watched Wen Shaoyu pin down a chubby boy half a head taller than him and beat him up, his expression fierce and every punch landing hard. She'd heard none of the kids in the lane dared to mess with him.
As luck would have it, they were neighbors. Wen Shaoyu had seen Ji Shuhe standing by the door several times in the middle of the night, too afraid to walk alone to the public restroom at the entrance of the lane. So every time, he would swing his flashlight around and mock her, saying she was as timid as a cat.
Years later, twenty-four-year-old Ji Shuhe was still afraid of him.
She left the puppy with the puppy, abandoned them, and left Xinhai. For years, there was no word from her.
The day they unexpectedly met again, Wen Shaoyu held the leash of Chestnut, whose coat had faded but who still tried to rush excitedly toward Ji Shuhe. His expression was cold, as if she had never appeared before his eyes.
"When Chestnut turned ten this year, I promised him that if he couldn't wait for you, then I... wouldn't wait for you either."
"Ji Shuhe."
"I'm glad you didn't make us wait for nothing."
Theme: Balancing work and love
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2025.9.8
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