On the surface: [Taciturn, unfeeling female assassin x passionate, sincere, fabulously wealthy beauty of a receiver]
In reality: [Gentle giant puppy x fiery little fox]
These two are loaded...
[Blurb]
After accidentally taking a special drug, Jin Li, the most eye-catching beauty at the luxury brand's thank-you banquet that evening, charged into the restaurant kitchen like an animal in heat, in a completely wretched state.
A female bartender helped her secretly take care of the problem. Afterward, Jin Li remembered only that her savior was taller than the doorframe, had a comforting, pleasant scent, and possessed strong arms adorned with colorful tattoos.
Jin Li searched for half a year, but her savior was nowhere to be found. She was rumored to be a senior mercenary officer in a criminal haven in Southeast Asia, a runway supermodel in a fashionable Western European country, the chief bodyguard who had repeatedly killed would-be assassins trying to attack the secretary of state in Country S, or even a top female assassin on the international internet. No one knew the truth.
While looking for her, Jin Li fell for two romance scams and was kidnapped once. She met countless impostors who tried to swindle her out of money, but at last she found the real one!
But her savior merely listened to her tearful story, a flicker of confusion crossing her sharp phoenix eyes. Her M-shaped lips parted, and in a foreigner's accent she offered two idioms she'd just learned:
"It was no trouble at all. Don't mention it."
After Jin Li pursued her relentlessly, Lun Batu agreed to date her, then dumped her after only a few days.
Her blunt reason left Jin Li speechless and red-faced: she thought Jin Li couldn't take it.
Perhaps to keep Jin Li from pestering her, Lun Batu bought her several handbags, tossed her a card with twenty million on it, then boarded an international flight and disappeared for another six months.
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Later, the chairman of the Jin Group became critically ill, and Jin Li's repulsive older brothers all came to fight over the family fortune. Unwilling to hand over the business she'd worked so hard to build, she decided to find someone to marry into her family.
Lun Batu found her at just that moment, holding a baby in her arms. The child was the orphan of a fallen comrade, but under domestic law, unmarried people couldn't adopt.
The two went to the civil affairs bureau and registered their marriage that very day, each getting what they needed.
The news of the "Little Princess of a Ten-Billion Group Marrying Her Bodyguard" quickly made headlines across the media. The whole world was convinced Jin Li was hopelessly lovestruck, the sort who'd dig for wild vegetables after giving everything up for love, and adored Lun Batu beyond reason.
The truth was that in their enormous villa, a woman like a mighty eagle sang softly to soothe the baby. Once her daughter was asleep, she was left alone in the empty house, waiting for someone until dawn night after night, her handsome eyes dark with exhaustion.
The hand that had once held a gun was now washed clean and used to prepare meals. Every day she cooked a whole table of food, only for it to grow cold.
Her WeChat account was permanently blocked, and whenever she called the number saved under "Wife," no one ever answered.
Jin Li had the family empire firmly in hand and beautiful people surrounding her. She barely came home once in several months. When Lun Batu finally couldn't take it anymore and blocked her office doorway, Jin Li slapped her across the face.
"What is this, sis? Did you drink fake liquor in broad daylight? Did you forget that our marriage is fake?"
Lun Batu had gotten used to being slapped by Jin Li over the years, but this time she lowered her eyelids for a long while. Her thick, straight lashes veiled her dark eyes, and her voice revealed a bitterness she couldn't put into words. She spoke slowly, one word at a time.
"You never said it was fake."
[Reader's Guide]
1. One-on-one romance, both leads' first love. They reunite at the start, and Lun Batu will have to suffer to win his wife back. Happy ending.
2. Lun Batu is highly intelligent and has an unemotional personality disorder. Put simply, she's clueless when it comes to feelings, but she's a good person.
Theme: Love is patient, love is kind
