After Competing with My Childhood Friend to Get Married

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Childhood sweethearts | Both virgins | Marriage first, love later | A crush becomes mutual

Chen Shu only saw her childhood friend Fu Jiangci as an ordinary friend. But after they got married to placate their parents, they had two kids in three years. The insatiable Chen Shu said, "I hadn't planned on making the act real, but he was just too good at flirting. I couldn't help myself."

Her childhood sweetheart had always been exceptional, came from a well-off family, and was handsome and refined. He was a top student and the campus heartthrob in college, with countless girls confessing to him. Before she got to taste him, Chen Shu scoffed at them. Afterward, she couldn't get enough. "How did I not realize he was so delicious all these years?"

Chen Shu only thought of her childhood friend Fu Jiangci as her best friend. But after college graduation, they ended up in bed together. When she woke from a drunken stupor and saw her good buddy clutching the blanket, she was dumbfounded. "...Did we cross the line?"

They agreed to pretend nothing had happened. But their parents were so desperate for them to marry that the two, at a loss for what to do, decided to get married to appease them. Husband and wife in public, still friends in private. Besides, they lived in different places.

But then he gave up his job in the big city and became a special-ed math teacher for senior-year high school students at her school. With their parents watching, they had no choice but to live together.

After more than ten years of brotherly friendship with him, Chen Shu had never noticed how delectable he was. Her desire got the better of her, and she couldn't resist. So she decided to just go for it and enjoy him first.

Chen Shu put on an affected air and struck a seductive pose outside his room. "What should I do, Brother Ci? My mom's gone from nagging me to get married to nagging me to have a baby. How about we have one?"

Fu Jiangci's hand stopped as he graded papers. When he looked at her, his normally cool eyes suddenly seemed to catch fire. "What a coincidence. My parents are nagging me too. So, should we... have a baby?"

With his permission, Chen Shu pressed him right against the edge of the desk. "Then let's do it now. No point wasting time."

Fu Jiangci: "..."

Fu Jiangci had always indulged his childhood friend Chen Shu, spoiling her until she had no idea where the limits were. As a result, she never guarded herself against him.

His feelings for her had long since gone beyond friendship. He loved her.

For her, he was willing to give up his high-paying job and move to a small county town to teach math.

He felt more at ease with the girl he'd raised, even if he was only her marriage-of-convenience partner...

But one day, Chen Shu said she wanted to have a child with him.

He was secretly thrilled, but put on a solemn act and let her have her way with him.

In Chen Shu's mind, her childhood sweetheart had always been outstanding, serious, and stoic.

She and Fu Jiangci were worlds apart. They could only be friends.

She never expected that one day, by a twist of fate, this brilliant, top-quality man would become her husband.

Her dear childhood friend was so fertile that... she had two kids in three years, one boy and one girl.

Only later did Chen Shu discover that Fu Jiangci had been interested in her for a long time. Even at the tender age of sixteen, the young man's gaze had never left her.

*A cozy everyday-life story about a childhood friend whose secret crush comes true, and who schemes and competes to win his wife over.

Theme: Hard work makes a pearl shine through the dust.