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[Uptight man breaks his vows / Married first, love later / Winning back his wife / Both leads are each other's first]
[Restrained, chaste daddy vs. gentle, beautiful sweetheart]
01
Everyone knows that the Qiao and Liang families of Beicheng arranged a marriage for business purposes. The marriage between the youngest daughter of the Qiao family and the eldest son of the Liang family is only in name.
Qiao Ci's task is to help the Liang family have a firstborn grandson as soon as possible, so that Old Master Liang can see his great-grandchild before he dies.
Though she has no feelings for her husband, she owes his family a debt of gratitude and is determined to fulfill her duty.
Their wedding night.
Liang Qinian looked at his petite, lush young wife kneeling in front of him. She was neither too full nor too slim, and dazzlingly beautiful. He felt nothing for her, but didn't dislike her either. "What are you doing?"
Her voice was sweet and melodious, her gaze resolute. "Having a baby."
"Other than wanting to have a baby with me, is there nothing else?"
"There is, there is."
"Raising the baby."
"..."
02
The eldest Liang son, Liang Qinian, was elegant and refined, wealthy and noble, and kept himself chaste. He was restrained and particular about marriage.
A week after he turned her down, Qiao Ci deliberately put on a sheer lace nightgown and knelt in the same position on the bed.
Liang Qinian sneered. "Is having a baby the only thing you think about?"
She bit her pink lips. "Let's hurry up and have a baby."
"Do you even know how babies are made?"
Her face turned crimson. She murmured, "I do..."
Then she slowly took off her stockings.
But the man ignored her completely and went to sleep in the other bedroom.
03
A full month after he rejected her, Qiao Ci caught a fever and babbled deliriously in the night, clinging to Liang Qinian's strong, well-built chest as she murmured another man's name.
Liang Qinian's usually calm, collected gaze instantly turned sinister and icy.
The day she recovered, he suddenly confronted her. "Xiao Ci, do you like me?"
The pastry in Qiao Ci's hand fell to the ground in shock. "I-I do."
"Liar."
His young wife was terribly nervous.
04
Qiao Ci knew she would never complete her task. To help Old Master Liang fulfill his wish as soon as possible, she decided to step aside and rekindle things with the man she had loved when she was young.
That night, kneeling just as she always had, she told him, "I know you don't love me. I'll explain everything to Grandpa. We can get a divorce..."
"I won't get in your way."
"Isn't it too late to bring this up now?"
"N-no, it's not."
"Weren't you going to have a baby?"
"..."
The man switched off the light. "Then let's have one."
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Ruffian troublemaker × honest girl
Blurb:
The Jiang and Fu families had been close for generations. When Jiang Mu was six, her grandfather passed away. The Fu family's old master made the decision to promise her to his own younger grandson as a bride.
The Fu family was enormously wealthy, and the young master was the same age as her. Just like that, she became Fu Xicheng's fiancee.
She didn't understand what it meant to be a wife. She only knew that from that day on, she had a future husband named Fu Xicheng.
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Fu Xicheng had always been the most eye-catching person in any crowd. He was handsome, with a slightly roguish smile, and girls were always flocking around him. She followed behind him like a little tail.
Jiang Mu secretly loved Fu Xicheng. She was shy by nature and carefully hid her feelings, while he had one admirer after another.
That year, he was madly in love with Liu Fangfang from the class next door. Jiang Mu was his obedient little sidekick, carrying his schoolbag and keeping watch. When they went to the arcade, she sat outside and waited. When they went to see a movie, she did her homework outside the theater, finishing one book after another.
She never expected anything else.
The engagement had been arranged by their grandfathers, and she more or less knew he didn't like her. If he didn't like her, so be it. At least she could still see him.
She thought her whole life would go on like that, until a gentle, aloof upperclassman appeared.
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The upperclassman was 183 centimeters tall, fair-skinned, beautiful, and long-legged. Most importantly, he was incredibly gentle.
Her heart began to waver. She had never realized that being looked at with such tenderness could make her heart feel warm.
Jiang Mu resolved to break up with Fu Xicheng and end this ill-fated relationship. It wasn't as if he liked her anyway.
-
One day, she came running over to him, beaming. "Brother Xicheng, when we graduate, I'll tell Grandpa to call off the engagement!"
Her eyes curved with her smile, like a little bird that had finally escaped its cage.
Now she could start falling for the upperclassman.
But Fu Xicheng's expression darkened. "A-Nian, I still have to marry you."
She froze, thinking he hadn't understood. "Haven't you always hated this engagement? Great, now we won't have to get married!"
"I'll explain it to the old master. I'll be the one to bring it up, so Grandpa won't blame you. Then you can be with Liu Fangfang. Isn't that great?"
"Jiang Mu." He suddenly called her by her full name, his voice ominous, as if he had become someone else. "There's a limit to how far you can take playing hard to get."
"I'm not!"
He stared at her, then suddenly seemed to understand. With a wicked smile, he asked, "Are you cheating on me?"
"..." Her heart raced, and her face burned.
"Your eyes are practically glued to him."
In the end, he told her, "A-Nian, give up on that idea."
"Who else do you think you can marry besides me?"
Both leads are each other's first / Winning back his wife
Male lead is a twisted, obsessive menace / a possessive ghost of a man
Theme: Life is a tree laden with possibilities.
