Marriage First, Love Later | Hong Kong Vibes | The Powerful One Bows His Head | A Push and Pull to the Extreme
The biggest news in Hong Kong lately is the marriage alliance between the Shen and Zhong families. Shen Huaixu, the all-powerful 32-year-old head of the Shen family, has married Zhong Lexin, the 21-year-old youngest daughter of Zhong Real Estate.
1. When Shen Huaixu first met Zhong Lexin, she was only ten, and he was already working.
So when he learned she was his intended bride, Shen Huaixu couldn't help feeling like an old bull eating young grass.
On the day of their engagement, Shen Huaixu stopped Zhong Lexin, who was looking down and too timid to meet his eyes. He told her plainly that if she didn't want to get engaged, he could explain things to both families and call off the match.
As soon as he finished speaking, the girl, who only came up to his chest, looked up abruptly. Her face was a little pale, but her gaze was resolute. "I'm not calling it off."
Zhong Lexin had liked Shen Huaixu since childhood, so when she found out she was going to be engaged to him, she was so delighted that she donated ten million to charity.
On the day of their engagement, Zhong Lexin was full of joy. But when Shen Huaixu politely and courteously asked if she wanted to call off the engagement, she realized that perhaps she was the only one looking forward to this marriage.
2. After they married, they slept in separate rooms, and their marriage seemed to have become a mere formality.
Zhong Lexin tried every trick she could think of to seduce Shen Huaixu, but to no avail. Resigned, she accepted that this was heaven's punishment for forcing her way into marrying him.
On their wedding day, Shen Huaixu realized his wife had someone she liked.
Afraid Zhong Lexin had married him under pressure from the alliance, he chose to sleep separately after a long silence.
Later, even when he saw his wife at home dressed in something revealing and felt so painfully aroused that he could barely stand it, he would politely escort her back to her room, then stay in the bathroom until two in the morning.
3. After Zhong Lexin was disappointed, she resolved to divorce Shen Huaixu.
Although Shen Huaixu had anticipated this day, when Zhong Lexin stood before him and spoke the cruelest words with an utterly innocent expression, he still couldn't suppress the anger welling up inside him.
Even Shen Huaixu, the entrepreneur whom the media had named the most gentlemanly and law-abiding, had a moment when he desperately wanted to throw the man who had seduced his wife into the open sea.
Zhong Lexin: He's a few years older than me, decisive and perceptive. Even when I dress like a mature woman, he only notices the youthful innocence in my eyes.
Shen Huaixu: I've simply seen the world a few years longer than she has, but she'll see it eventually. I've met all kinds of people, yet I love only her, for her passion and sincerity.
[Things to Know Before Reading]: Both leads are virgins.
Theme: Love alone is useless. What matters is loving each other.
