After Marrying My Childhood Nemesis

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An unconventional married-first, love-later story | Childhood friends and sworn enemies become bedfellows | He has a secret crush

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After You Xianhao's date with her moonlight senior was ruined, she got into another cold war with Chen Jiany​​u.

The day after their fight began, her parents told her she was expected to marry Chen Jiany​​u. You Xianhao couldn't believe it. She declared she would never agree and stormed out of the house.

But one moment she was making bold declarations, and the next her cards had been frozen.

With tears in her eyes, You Xianhao checked the combined balances of all her apps. They didn't even add up to three digits. Just as she was fretting, a message arrived from an unfamiliar number:

[Take me off your blacklist]

[Let's talk]

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When news of You Xianhao and Chen Jiany​​u's marriage got out, no one believed it was real.

Everyone knew these two had been childhood friends for twenty years and fought every time they met.

- But that red-background wedding photo on their social media couldn't really just be a regular photo, could it?

While their mutual friends exploded with gossip, the two people in question were laying down ground rules in their new home:

They'd just share a roof, sleep in separate rooms, and neither interfere in nor control the other's life after marriage.

You Xianhao took off her wedding ring, went clubbing until dawn, and posted a photo dancing with a male model.

Less than half an hour later, Chen Jiany​​u sent her a video of himself surfing on an island. A gentle female voice could just barely be heard in the background. He added, with casual nonchalance, "Sorry, the waves were too strong. My wedding ring fell into the sea."

You Xianhao sneered. Ignoring his snide reply, "Having quite the time, aren't you?", she blocked him again.

Then one night, a rainstorm forced Chen's mother to stay with them.

To avoid being found out, You Xianhao had no choice but to play the loving wife alongside Chen Jiany​​u and share a bed with him.

As the shower pattered, You Xianhao sat restlessly. Then she noticed the phone beside her pillow lighting up again and again.

Unable to resist her curiosity, You Xianhao picked it up and opened the messages.

But a voice message started playing automatically.

Chen's mother: "Son, your dad says he can't sleep when I'm not home. Why are you insisting that I stay here?"

Chen's mother: "And that ring you said you lost? Wasn't it in the drawer?"

At some point, the shower had stopped.

As the last word faded, You Xianhao looked up as if she'd sensed something, meeting a pair of deep black eyes.

Water dripped from the tips of his wet hair onto his collarbone. The man stood in the doorway, his robe hanging loosely as he looked down at her.

Their eyes met. A moment of silence passed.

"Hey."

"Since the ring isn't lost," he said, trying to sound calm, "why don't we try not taking it off... okay?"

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*Based on a sworn-enemies and constant-bickering dynamic. The male lead is rather sharp-tongued at first, but every one of his actions will be explained later.

*If you can't accept or don't like this setup, please don't read it. Don't attack the author or take the fictional setup personally. You don't need to tell me if you're dropping the story. I hope every reader finds a story they love. Let's respect one another!

[The male lead is faithful in both body and heart. He goes from not realizing he's in love to having a secret crush.]

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[Written 25.2.27 / revised 4.26]

My next story will feature Chen Jiany​​u's older brother: The Secret the Wind Revealed

Blurb:

The winter solstice of 2012, the day the Mayans predicted the world would end.

The moment the clock ticked past midnight, clear moonlight spilled beside the window, and the wind blew open her diary.

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The fourth year of her secret crush on Chen Zhike.

Sunlight slanted into the dim equipment room. Amid floating dust and shifting light, a boy in a white shirt stood with the light behind him and reached out to her. His features were refined, his voice gentle. "I remember you."

The ninth year of her secret crush on Chen Zhike.

After a gathering with her academic circle, she was the last to leave. A tall, straight figure cast a shadow. The man stood outside the private room, his expression unreadable and his voice even. "Am I just your senior?"

(Extended version)

At a gathering with her academic circle, a friendly senior introduced her to everyone, especially the mentor's star student. When he learned that Xi Cheng and Chen Zhike had attended the same high school, he asked, surprised and eager for gossip, "Then you two must know each other, right?"

The person opposite her seemed to glance her way casually. She tightened her grip on her glass, shook her head, and said, "Senior is famous. I only know of him."

The gathering ended, and she was the last to leave.

Just as she was about to go out, a tall, straight figure cast a shadow.

She stiffened, then forced herself to call softly, "Senior..."

"You only know of me?" The voice above her was even. "I seem to remember a little more than my junior does."

In their senior year of high school, she had said she would go to the same university as him.

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"The page the wind blew open in my diary was you."

In other words, you were the secret the wind blew open.

Theme: Childhood sweethearts are one grand game of growing up together