My Fake Marriage Partner Is Actually a North American Big Shot?

[Coming Soon] "Where the Forest Deepens, a Deer Appears" [Pure-Hearted High School Teacher vs. Flirtatious, Freewheeling Playboy]

■ [Fastidious, Fussy Heiress with a Complicated Love Life x Handsome, Wealthy, Broad-Shouldered Tycoon Who Takes the Lead]

● Marriage First, Love Later / Pretend Relationship Turns Real / Love at First Sight on Both Sides / Both Chaste, One-on-One, Happy Ending

Jiang Li has fair skin, a beautiful face, a slender waist, and long legs. She is the cream of the crop in beauty, and has already made a name for herself at a young age, yet she is a confirmed marriage skeptic.

It's not that she won't date. She's just too focused on her career and afraid a man will hold her back.

Jiang Li: Men only slow down how fast I can process paperwork.

1.

But her family kept nagging her to get married, and Jiang Li was fed up. After another futile protest, she casually picked one of her suitors to get through a blind date.

As it turned out, he was a scumbag, juggling several women at once. When she caught him, he turned the tables and sent people to harass her in her residential complex.

The bad news: A bunch of thugs were waiting for her outside her home.

The good news: Her best friend had recommended a top North American bodyguard.

After getting the contact information,

Jiang Li: So you work for money?

Customer service: We work for money.

Jiang Li: Great. Find me a handsome 190-centimeter guy with broad shoulders and a narrow waist.

Customer service: …

She needed a stand-in to get through blind dates anyway. Rather than pick someone at random, she might as well pay for one.

A transaction in cash was much purer than a relationship.

The security company took her money and sent over a bodyguard who was ridiculously handsome. He could deal with her family's marriage pressure and handle her scumbag ex, and his service was surprisingly impeccable.

But why was the way he looked at her getting more and more wicked? No, more and more strange.

And he kept saying all sorts of inexplicable things.

2.

Later, the truth about their fake marriage came out.

Her ex showed up at her door, smugly holding evidence and exposing her lie in front of her parents. The old couple nearly fainted from anger.

Just as Jiang Li decided to come clean, her husband in name only hurried over, carrying a stack of documents.

A doctoral degree from a university ranked in the QS top ten, a list of his personal assets, and a brand-new-looking red marriage certificate.

The list showed countless companies under the man's name, all based in North America, with assets worth tens of millions. And that was only part of his wealth.

Every document looked exactly like the real thing. They could even be verified on official websites.

Her ex was completely dumbfounded, and her parents were stunned too. So their daughter had stayed single all this time because her standards were too high?!

Before half a day had passed, news that she had married the heir to a North American business empire had spread through their social circles.

Several old classmates who had been living in North America for years and hadn't been in touch all called to confirm, hinting that they wanted to meet up.

Jiang Li knew the man's real identity better than anyone, so she didn't dare agree.

3.

Afterward, Jiang Li praised him for being a consummate professional and preparing so thoroughly, then worried that he'd gone too far with his act. What would happen if the truth came out later?

After all, one lie takes countless others to cover up.

But who could have guessed that the man would look at her with a warm smile and say, "Wife, who said my documents are fake?"

Jiang Li: …

That night, the man held her in his arms, making love to her as he guided her hand across the mouse.

The man's glittering credentials and vast assets flashed across the screen, making Jiang Li's eyes ache.

"My assets are real, our marriage certificate is real, and my love for my wife is real too."

His voice was gentle, but he didn't ease up for a moment. He even asked if Jiang Li loved him, if she blamed him for keeping his identity secret, and apologized for not being honest, begging her to forgive him.

Jiang Li bit down on the tie in her mouth, unable to utter a single word, and silently despaired:

Could you take the tie out first before we talk about this?!

■Reading Guide■

1. Both chaste, one-on-one, happy ending; marriage first, love later. Weibo: @GreenSpiderYa

2. The leads fall in love at first sight with each other.

3. Modern fictional setting, lighthearted sweet romance, not realistic fiction. Please don't apply it to real life.

4. Still updating daily at 18:00. Once it starts, it will be completed. If updates are interrupted, I'll ask for leave; missed chapters will be made up with ten little red envelopes 0v0.

[Coming Soon] "Where the Forest Deepens, a Deer Appears"

■ [Pure-Hearted High School Teacher vs. Flirtatious, Freewheeling Playboy]

▲ Love First, Then Love More | Love at First Sight on Both Sides | A Little Bittersweet, with a Pursuit Arc Built In

1.

Zhou Lu first saw the handsome man on the day she attended a staff team-building event for the first time.

In a high-end restaurant where a meal cost five figures, her supervisor put an arm around her waist and singled her out to drink with him. New to the working world, she had no idea how to handle it. She hid outside the restroom, so anxious that she began to cry.

The man had been smoking nearby. When he saw her, he smiled and walked over to ask why she was crying.

He was handsome, and his manner was gentle, making him seem very convincing:

Like a good person.

With nowhere else to turn, Zhou Lu burst into tears in front of him. After hearing her out, the man gave a soft scoff and smiled. "What's the big deal?"

He accompanied her back to the private room and introduced himself to everyone as her boyfriend.

The man was handsome and generous. He paid the five-figure bill for the private room in her name, then said she was timid and asked them to look out for her at school and not bully her.

As her colleagues peppered her with envious, curious questions, she learned the man's name from him.

2.

Zhou Lu saw the handsome man for the second time at a coffee shop.

Following her family's arrangements, she went on a blind date with a man who worked in the public sector. He wore glasses, and the first thing he said when he saw her was:

"You look like you'd be very good at having children."

She wasn't very tall, and her face was a little round. She wasn't slim, but hearing someone bluntly describe her as good at having children still made her angry, though it was a quiet, simmering anger.

The only reason she didn't leave was that she saw that man.

He was sitting not far away, talking to a woman dressed in a sexy, fashionable outfit. Zhou Lu didn't know what he said, but the woman threw her coffee at him and stormed off.

Before Zhou Lu could look away, the man noticed her first.

Their eyes met. His smiling eyes saw right through her embarrassment, and once again he came to her rescue as her boyfriend, driving off the man she was on a blind date with.

"Never been in a relationship? Going on a blind date?" the man asked.

She nodded.

The man smiled and looked at her. "Why not give me a try? I just broke up with someone too."

His words were seductive, and his smile was irresistible. She was swept up in the moment and said yes. Just like that, she somehow ended up with a rich second-generation boyfriend.

3.

Her boyfriend treated her well. He always spoke gently and never skimped on praise, often telling her she was beautiful. He was also more than happy to spend money on her... She couldn't help imagining what their life might be like after they got married.

But in front of his friends, the man said he didn't believe in marriage.

Even so, Zhou Lu never considered breaking up, not until she saw a video of her boyfriend passionately kissing someone else. Only then did she realize:

She was the only one who had taken their relationship seriously.

■Reading Guide■

1. The female lead is chaste; the male lead is not. He really is a flirt and a playboy, but he really does remain chaste for the female lead.

2. A bittersweet, sweet romance with a mild pursuit arc built in.

3. To be added.

Theme: When you bloom, the butterflies will come.