After Being Forced into Marriage, He Became a Little Green Tea

Liang Zimo has been the model child everyone else's parents point to since he was young: excellent grades, handsome looks, and, even after growing up, the hardest-working corporate drone.

But he has a gambling, abusive father.

To pay off his gambling debts, his scumbag father accepts an exorbitant bride price from someone and sells Liang Zimo to a man he barely knows.

After they marry, Liang Zimo is emotionally clueless, while his husband, Cheng Du, is cool and distant toward him. So Liang Zimo assumes Cheng Du doesn't like him.

He comes up with a plan for dealing with the husband he barely knows and tells him, "Let's stay out of each other's business and leave each other alone."

At dinner with friends, one of them says there's a secret to tell him and asks him to guess what it is.

He jokes, "It's not that my husband is cheating, is it?"

Until one day, he really does catch his husband keeping a 2+1 on the side...

Just when he thinks their marriage is over, Cheng Du taps his fingers on the table and says with stern seriousness,

"You didn't marry me as a sham. Please take this marriage seriously."

Liang Zimo is baffled. What does that mean?

Is he telling him to behave himself and not cheat? The hypocrisy of demanding that the other person follow rules you don't follow is something else.

So the next day, he runs off with his suitcase. He can't get a divorce, but surely he's allowed to leave?

However, life on his own is hard. Without money, he can't eat or dress warmly. A friend suggests that he act like a manipulative, helpless green tea girl to win his husband's heart back!

He searches online for a pile of guides: how to act like a green tea girl, the ten classic green tea lines, how to cultivate the green tea girl mindset, how to manage the green tea girl image...

After memorizing everything until he thinks there's not a single flaw, he cautiously calls his husband:

"Honey, I was just scared. You're all I have now... Could you give me some money?"

As soon as the call ends, the other man transfers the money.

Liang Zimo counts the zeros in his bank balance. Wait... does acting like a green tea girl really work?

The first time Cheng Du sees Liang Zimo, he's watching him take photos by the sea. Fireworks burst into bloom that night, hiding the indescribable feelings stirring in his heart.

At twenty-six, for the first time in his life, he learns what love at first sight means.

Later, when he sees men and women bringing Liang Zimo flowers and trying to win his favor, Cheng Du quietly forces Liang Zimo into marrying him.

Only a handful of Cheng Du's closest friends know he got married. Everyone is shocked that this iron tree has finally blossomed! Some even sigh that he's lost his mind, marrying so young. The aloof CEO Cheng appears unmoved by it all.

But in his heart, he thinks: You have to marry early. If you wait until someone else has won his heart before you start pursuing him, it's going to be a problem.

But three months into the marriage, Cheng Du breaks down as he stares at the back of his wife's head, turned away from him in bed.

When will this idiot, who lies beside him every night with a heart harder than stone, finally catch on?

One snowy day later on, Liang Zimo gets drunk and video-calls Cheng Du.

The moment Cheng Du answers, fireworks soar into the sky and burst open behind Liang Zimo. Their golden glow lights up the snowflakes drifting through the night and Liang Zimo's delighted smile.

In that instant, Cheng Du seems to fall in love all over again. His heart races uncontrollably until his ears ring.

He hears Liang Zimo say, "Cheng Du, let's watch the fireworks together."

Ding! You have a new reading guide!

1. Same-sex marriage is legal in this setting. One-on-one, mutually devoted, happy ending. One can't figure out how to love, while the other thinks he's unloved.

2. The pursuing lead has no one on the side. He's completely devoted to the receiving lead, with absolutely no angst.

3. The volunteer work in the countryside draws some inspiration from real life, but I don't have relevant experience, so a lot of it is fictionalized. Just enjoy it without taking it too seriously! If you have relevant experience or professional knowledge, please feel free to point out any mistakes. I'd be grateful for your guidance!

4. This is a new author's first work, so please be forgiving if the writing or plot has flaws. (^3^)

Theme: No one is an island.