Spoiled little princess x cunning old fox | “You are the bright moon I seek across thousands of miles, and the precious pearl I would hide away even amid raging storms.”
1. Ji Mingyue was the little princess of the Ji family of Wucheng, born with a silver spoon in her mouth and cherished by the elder Jis. Spoiled from childhood, she grew up willful, capricious, and utterly uncontrollable.
Then, overnight, the Ji family fell from power. Her parents, who had always doted on her, handed her a marriage contract with trembling hands, intending to marry her off to the useless son of the Wen family, a man who did nothing but eat, drink, and have fun.
Everyone in Wucheng's upper circles knew that Wen Shuo was an uneducated playboy who frequented places of pleasure and flirted wherever he went.
Her parents were actually willing to push her into a fire pit.
Ji Mingyue stared at the gold-embossed marriage contract, finding it painfully glaring.
On the day of the engagement banquet, Ji Mingyue smashed the cheap pearl crown sent by the Wen family. Under everyone's watchful eyes, she walked straight to the main table, where a man sat as serenely as a god.
She slapped the marriage contract down in front of Wen Siheng and met his amused gaze without fear. “Three years ago, when you acquired the Ji family's shipping routes, Mr. Wen, you said that a true pearl should never be hidden away...”
“Now I'm here to ask you to honor that promise. Does it still stand?”
2. Wen Siheng controlled more than half of Wucheng's major shipping routes and ports. He was the true head of the Wen Group, and Wen Shuo's uncle.
His dignified, gentle appearance was only a facade. His true nature was cold and imposing, allowing no one to challenge him.
Everyone thought that although Ji Mingyue had succeeded in forcing Wen Siheng into marriage on the spot, he would kick her out of the Wen family sooner or later.
They all waited for her to become a laughingstock.
But the years went by.
By Ji Mingyue's twenty-fourth birthday, not only had Wen Siheng arranged a global birthday tribute for her, he had also opened a series of exhibition halls displaying the exquisite jewelry she had designed on a whim.
At the very center of the starry-sky dome exhibition hall stood a one-of-a-kind crown of stars and moon, designed by Wen Siheng himself.
Later, that crown rested on Ji Mingyue's head.
3. After they married, Ji Mingyue was curious. Given Wen Siheng's decisive nature, why had he agreed to her forcing his hand at the engagement banquet?
“If I hadn't come to you myself, would you really have watched me marry that useless Wen Shuo?” Ji Mingyue straddled him, winding his wine-red tie around her fingers again and again.
Wen Siheng looked languid, letting her hold his life in her hands. “Why do you think I went to his engagement banquet?”
Of course he went to steal the bride.
What made Wen Shuo think he had any right?
Theme: Be positive and keep moving forward.
