Mind the Day-Night Temperature Gap [Marriage Before Love]

/Strangers to lovers after an arranged marriage | Seven-year age gap

/Clear-headed, slow to warm up x mature, paternal type

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It had been ten years since Wen Mingxu came with her remarried mother to live with the Song family. Fresh out of college, she was arranged to marry Gu Yanzhou, a man she had met only a handful of times, and they registered their marriage.

Wen Mingxu knew perfectly well that this marriage was nothing more than an exchange of benefits. She and Gu Yanzhou were each getting what they wanted and putting on an act.

After the wedding, Wen Mingxu joined a subsidiary of Gu Yanzhou's company. She worked diligently every day, and just as diligently pretended not to know her boss.

But she never expected things to gradually get out of hand.

One day, the company's VIP elevator needed repairs, so Wen Mingxu and a female colleague returned from lunch and happened to run into Gu Yanzhou, who was taking the staff elevator.

The elevator rose slowly. In the cramped space, you could hear a pin drop.

After they got out, her colleague wrapped an arm around Wen Mingxu's and let out a long breath. "Maybe it's just my imagination, but it feels like President Gu has been coming to our department a lot lately."

Wen Mingxu: "…I guess he has."

She answered vaguely, distracted. Without thinking, she moved her hand behind her back and curled her fingers, trying to ignore the warmth left on her fingertips when Gu Yanzhou had held her hand in the corner of the elevator.

*Blurb written on January 20, 2025

Theme: Work hard to grow, and resolutely pursue happiness.