He Insists on Remarrying Me [Pregnancy Before Love]

Next up: The Marriage Goes Off the Rails, CEO x junior employee, marriage first, love later!

Marriage first, love later / pregnancy first, love later / sweet romance / height and build difference / tension / healing each other

Radiant art-school heiress returned from overseas x cold-on-the-outside, warm-on-the-inside heir to an icy corporate empire

Jiang Rong never dreamed that she would get pregnant by her husband under contract right after divorcing him!

At twenty-four, for the sake of her family's business, Jiang Rong had just graduated from the art and design program at Central Saint Martins in London and returned home when she rushed into a brief marriage of convenience with Lu Chenyuan, going through the motions to get a marriage certificate.

All they had to do was wait until the following year, after her family's business had weathered its crisis, and then get their divorce certificates.

Besides, she couldn't stand her marriage partner, Lu Chenyuan, in the first place.

As the only son of the enormous Lu Group, he had taken over the family business and made his mark in the business world. Decisive and ruthless, he had achieved results every bit as dazzling as his father's generation. In Jingzhou, he was the most sought-after bachelor among the daughters of wealthy families.

But in Jiang Rong's eyes, the only things about him that passed muster were his six-foot-two frame and his striking, flawlessly handsome face.

Beyond that, whether it was his dull, boring personality, his deep and unfathomable thoughts, his rigid way of dealing with people, or his regimented, stifling lifestyle,

from the inside out, from head to toe, he was exactly the kind of man Jiang Rong disliked most.

A rich family's darling daughter with an older brother who doted on her, Jiang Rong had been born with porcelain-smooth skin and delicate, lovely features. She was a celebrated beauty,

but her personality was nothing like her appearance. She was bright and outgoing, impulsive and passionate, and always decisive in both love and action.

What's more, having been sent abroad to study in middle school because her family adored her, she had always admired freedom and abandon, passion and boldness.

And Jiang Rong guessed that he disliked her too: a spoiled, willful, difficult heiress raised in luxury.

After all, when they left the marriage registration office with their certificate, he had been as cold as ice and had barely wanted to say a word to her. After that, they lost touch and each went their own way.

At last, the year was almost up.

Jiang Rong had planned it well in advance. The next day, she would immediately make an appointment with her long-unheard-from "husband" to get their divorce certificates and happily reclaim her freedom.

But even the best-laid plans can't beat fate. The day before the divorce, her art exhibition hall was completed, and she was so thrilled that she had several extra drinks with her business partners.

She drank too much at the table and got so drunk she could barely remember anything.

The result was that on that snowy night, a friend who barely knew her and had no idea what was going on took her straight to the luxurious "bridal home" the Lu family had prepared for her and Lu Chenyuan, a place she herself had never once set foot in.

And, as luck would have it, her "husband" happened to be there.

Lu Chenyuan had just finished showering and hadn't even dried his hair. His tall, upright frame filled the doorway, black hair hanging over his forehead. Long, jointed fingers rested on the doorframe as he looked down at her flushed, drunken face, utterly bewildered.

And Jiang Rong, who tended to go wild after drinking, had no idea what had gotten into her that night.

She tilted her head back and not only failed to recognize the man before her, her "husband," whom she had met only once since they married, but somehow found him appealing all of a sudden.

For no apparent reason, she reached out, wrapped her arms around his long neck, kissed him, and threw herself at him...

The two of them turned out to be unexpectedly well matched in bed, and spent one outrageous night together.

The next morning, after sobering up, Jiang Rong opened her eyes and saw who was lying beside her. She couldn't believe it, and was consumed with regret.

She had slept with the man she hated most, the man she was supposed to divorce at the marriage registration office that very day!

Fortunately, Jiang Rong quickly composed herself and fled the "bridal home" in a panic.

After pulling herself together that afternoon, she calmly called him and told him the new appointment time she had arranged to get their divorce certificates.

Lu Chenyuan readily agreed. Clearly, he understood that the previous night had just been an accidental mistake.

A month later, they arrived at the marriage registration office right on time.

They successfully got their divorce certificates, and Jiang Rong felt a huge weight lift from her shoulders. As she walked out of the office, even her steps seemed lighter.

But as she descended the steps, her stomach suddenly lurched. She couldn't hold it back and crouched down, retching.

A dreadful suspicion came to Jiang Rong, one she didn't dare entertain.

Lu Chenyuan noticed something was wrong too. He strode over to her and immediately drove her to the hospital for an examination.

"Congratulations! You're expecting. You're four weeks along!" The doctor smiled and handed Jiang Rong the test results.

But neither of the two soon-to-be parents could smile.

Jiang Rong wished she could transmigrate back in time and beat the drunken version of herself from that night senseless.

She realized the truth in utter despair.

She was pregnant with the child of the man she hated most, a total stranger she barely knew, the "ex-husband" she had just divorced!

Unable to bring herself to end the pregnancy, Jiang Rong had no choice but to move into his villa at his insistence and start living with him.

Little by little, Jiang Rong realized that her husband was not quite right. He was nothing like she had imagined.

Without saying a word, he had her sign a family trust worth hundreds of billions for the child in her belly.

To put her at ease about her prenatal checkups, he had an entire hospital moved into their home.

To make sure she could breathe comfortably, he even replaced the air in the villa with fresh oxygen transported from a private mountain forest.

Her pregnancy cravings were particular. In the middle of winter, she wanted sweet tomatoes, naturally ripened in summer, with sandy, mealy flesh.

He immediately used his connections to contact an agricultural base in the Southern Hemisphere, find the best tomatoes on the farm, and have them flown over as quickly as possible, then cooked them for her himself.

The moment she said her back hurt, he gathered data on every well-known pregnancy pillow on the market. He personally built a model and ran the analysis, then had a complete support system made for her bed, tailored to the curves of her body.

More importantly, with her, he was nothing like the emotionless, cold, celibate computer of a man she remembered from high school.

Instead, he was practically an incubus and a fox spirit, coming up with new ways to seduce her every day.

One day, he accidentally got his shirt wet and showed off his eight-pack in front of her. The next, the dog wrecked his bed, so he had to squeeze into hers...

Jiang Rong, dragged aboard this ship whether she liked it or not, was won over!

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Lin Zhixia had always known:

This was a marriage that needed no love.

Shen Yanzhou needed a suitable, quiet wife who wouldn't cause trouble;

she needed money to resolve the difficulties in her life.

They married by agreement, each getting what they needed.

After the wedding, the boundaries were clear.

No going public, no intimacy, no interfering in each other's lives.

At the company, she was an ordinary junior employee in the Administration Department;

he was the high-and-mighty president of the group.

They seemed to have nothing to do with each other.

Until one day

Shen Yanzhou: "You don't need to handle these appointments from now on."

Lin Zhixia: "Should I hand them over to someone else?"

He frowned. "That's not what I meant."

She thought for a moment, then asked very seriously, "Then... do you just want me to go home and wait for you?"

The office fell silent for a second.

He looked at her, his voice a little lower than before:

"Don't say things like that during working hours."

She nodded and replied properly, "Understood, Mr. Shen."

Shen Yanzhou's voice remained calm, but his gaze lingered for a moment at the side of her neck.

There, her skin was almost unnaturally pale,

with a faint trace of red that had yet to fade.

His gaze suddenly darkened, and he added:

"At night, you can be a little more reckless."

Theme: Her body fell in love before her mind did, and she simply couldn't resist.