A Flower-Fruit Marriage

Please give this one a favorite, everyone~ Much appreciated~ The groveling-to-win-her-back trope is back again~

Lately, all the gossip at the traditional Chinese medicine hospital has centered on one person. The aloof and handsome Dr. Ji dumped his girlfriend of many years and turned around to marry a woman he'd known for only a few days.

Dr. Ji is handsome, tall, and skilled at medicine. If he weren't so unapproachable, he would have no shortage of women around him. Yet this quiet man had done something so scandalous, moving straight from one relationship to another, that people couldn't stop talking about it behind his back.

Xiang Zhimei wasn't sure whether the path she was on was the so-called “marriage first, love later,” but she had indeed met the man on her marriage certificate only four times.

So when they gradually fell in love, it was completely outside her plans.

Leather dress shoes and canvas sneakers sitting side by side in the shoe cabinet didn't actually look all that out of place.

Who would have thought the icy Ji Aijing could cook so well? He fed the carefree Xiang Zhimei until she was rosy-cheeked and healthy. He'd won her stomach, and her heart followed.

Their fourth wedding anniversary was their fruit-and-flower anniversary: blossoms and fruit, with both sour and sweet moments.

The hospital's favorite topic of conversation was Ji Aijing once again.

Some said they never expected the seamless transition from one relationship to another to be followed by rekindling an old flame. Others said that playing both sides was bound to end in disaster. Still others insisted that divorce was a required course for men who were too handsome.

Just when Xiang Zhimei thought things between her and Ji Aijing were going well, she finally discovered that he'd learned to cook to take care of someone else, that he and that person had never really lost touch during those four years, and that Ji Aijing had just ended a relationship when he married her.

So Xiang Zhimei took out the divorce papers she'd prepared when they got their marriage certificate.

The first half is marriage first, love later; the second half is groveling to win her back and rekindling an old flame~

The story opens with a divorce. The male lead is a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, and the female lead is a laid-back little editor.

Friendly advice: If you're particular about the leads having no romantic past, this one might not be for you~

Theme: Staying together isn't easy