A Pair After Marriage [Marriage Before Love]

Spoiled Heir x Ice Queen

Cheng Jibai, heir to the Cheng Group, was handsome and dashing, and married young. Yet his wife remained a mystery.

One day, Cheng Jibai dropped a link into the company-wide chat: Vote for No. 16.

Everyone took a look. It was a poll started by a forum user, asking people to vote for the most beautiful university lecturer secretly photographed during class.

No. 16 had an oval face and fair skin, and wore delicate gold-rimmed glasses. She was beautiful, of course, but even more striking was her scholarly air.

Half an hour later, at A University in Xicheng, Zhong Mei received a WeChat message from Cheng Jibai and saw that her vote count was far ahead of everyone else's.

Zhong Mei: Boring.

Cheng Jibai: Want me to pick you up after work? Grandma wants us to come over for dinner.

Zhong Mei: No need. I can take the bus.

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The Zhong family was an illustrious scholarly clan, with a measure of a scholar's integrity, but it had also produced a disgrace.

Her older brother had racked up enormous gambling debts, sold off the Zhong family's house and car, and angered their elders so badly that they ended up in the ICU. Zhong Mei had worked her way through school overseas and returned with her degree, only to find herself homeless.

In her desperate circumstances, Zhong Mei accepted a marriage proposal from Cheng Jibai, the "spoiled playboy" who had pursued her in high school.

Besides paying off her debts and covering the elders' medical bills, Zhong Mei had one condition: "Let's have a marriage in name only and live apart. I'm a germophobe, and you're only doing this to appease your family anyway."

Cheng Jibai: "I'm very clean."

Zhong Mei: "Otherwise, we're not getting married."

Cheng Jibai gritted his teeth. "Fine."

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Later...

Zhong Mei: "With tricks like these, you still claim you've never been involved with a woman?"

Cheng Jibai: "Your husband is an academic ace, after all. Isn't it perfectly reasonable for him to put what he learned into practice and figure things out on his own?"

Zhong Mei: "Then why did you put on that playboy act back then?"

Cheng Jibai said nothing, but in his heart, he cursed his scheming adviser a thousand times.

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Theme: Working together to build a happy life.