After the Contract Marriage Expires

[Tell Me You Love Me After the Divorce]

[Arrogant, tight-lipped man x emotionally oblivious woman / one can't speak, the other has no heart]

The heroine falls in love after marriage | The hero's secret crush comes true

Song Zhinuan, born into an ordinary family, is an urban planner. The old neighborhood where she grew up, Xiangshui Street, has been bought by Yunjing Group and is about to be demolished. Hoping to save the place where she grew up, Song Zhinuan goes to Yunjing Group, where she meets Shen Huaixu, the heir who has just returned from abroad.

She thinks it will be nothing more than a brief encounter, and that when they meet again, they will be people from two different worlds. But then...

A few days later, Song Zhinuan goes on a blind date with the person her family has arranged for her, hoping to appease her parents, who keep urging her to get married. But the person who shows up is Shen Huaixu.

He hands Song Zhinuan a marriage contract, as serious as if he were conducting a business negotiation:

"You're going to marry someone anyway. Why not marry me?"

Song Zhinuan has always thought that her marriage to Shen Huaixu is just a business arrangement.

She approaches her role as Shen Huaixu's wife with the attitude of an employee, going through the motions.

But she realizes Shen Huaixu is taking the role too seriously, doing far more than the contract requires.

He diligently fulfills his duties as her contractual husband, always gentle and restrained. In three years of marriage, he never crosses the line between a man and a woman, but does everything he can to treat her well.

But Song Zhinuan remains unmoved.

When their three-year contract expires, she prepares to divorce him as agreed.

Shen Huaixu asks with a dark expression, "Are you really that eager to divorce me?"

Song Zhinuan is confused. "It's not that I want to. It's what the contract says."

But Shen Huaixu tells her:

"Song Zhinuan, I told myself back then that if you fell in love with me within three years, I would tear up the contract.

If you didn't, I would let you go.

But now I want to break my promise. Whether or not you've fallen in love with me, I want you to be my wife for the rest of our lives."

Song Zhinuan wonders whether Shen Huaixu fell in love with her at first sight or over time, unaware that their connection began eighteen years ago.

On the day Xiangshui Street reopens, Shen Huaixu tells her at the place where they first met:

"Song Zhinuan, do you know?

The odds of two people meeting are 0.00487%. The odds of getting to know each other are one in five billion, and the odds of meeting, getting to know each other, and finally falling in love are 0.00049%.

Heaven gave me two chances to meet you. I don't want to miss them. With this contract, I want to fight for that 0.00049% chance of falling in love with you."

Reader's note:

1. Both leads are sexually inexperienced, and there's a happy ending! Sweet romance! Domestic newlywed life at first, then angst and emotional push-and-pull later.

2. The hero is completely love-struck! They met as children, but the heroine has forgotten.

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Theme: The beautiful things in life are worth holding on to