Tempting Gardenia [Marriage Before Love]

CEO x CEO / Sweet Romance / Two Awkward People Fall in Love / First Love for Both

To protect her shares, Jiang Zhi decides to find a man and enter a fake marriage.

The marriage may be fake, but the man still has to be good enough to stand by her side.

While Jiang Zhi waits for him at a restaurant, she takes one look at Xu Zhiyan when he arrives on time and knows he's the one.

Xu Zhiyan is handsome, broad-shouldered, long-legged, and slim-waisted. He shares Jiang Zhi's views on marriage. They exchange a glance, clink glasses, and sign a partnership agreement, promising to divorce once she secures the shares.

When news of the Jiang and Xu families' marriage breaks, everyone in their circle says Jiang Zhi has gone crazy.

After all, this self-made tech tycoon is famous for being a workaholic. He's a perfectionist, and all he sees in anything is its economic value.

But to Jiang Zhi, Xu Zhiyan is the most perfect husband she could ever ask for.

He's handsome and rich, a man she can proudly take anywhere. He respects boundaries, addresses her as "President Jiang," and is so busy that she barely has to deal with him at all.

After they marry, the two treat each other with courtesy and give one another plenty of face in public. Before long, they've become the model couple of their social circle.

Just as Jiang Zhi thinks their marriage will continue in this polite, distant fashion, the old master falls critically ill, and his will is brought into effect early. Her marriage to Xu Zhiyan is questioned, and she is even forced out of the group's power center.

For the first time, the usually calm Jiang Zhi loses her composure.

That night, she barges into Xu Zhiyan's room and grabs his hand, her eyes red.

"Xu Zhiyan, I need a child."

The man holds back his feelings and says nothing, but in the end he cannot refuse her.

"All right." He pauses and meets Jiang Zhi's gaze. "But, Zhi Zhi, don't have the baby and leave the father behind, okay?"

#Wait, isn't ours a marriage of convenience?#

#Who said anything about a contract?^^#

Theme: Family harmony