Rebellious little sister x gentle schemer
Four years older, marriage first and love later, everyday food and cooking
"Sigh, our custom is to hold the wedding first." Fu Yao shoved her phone in front of the match-making lady at the office and blurted out a lie.
On the screen, the groom had red silk wrapped around his wrist and was looking down as he tied a tassel for her. The blurred lighting made it hard to tell where the performance ended and reality began.
But just after she'd finished lying, she looked up and saw the groom himself arriving at the urban management office to file paperwork. Fu Yao forced herself to stay calm. "Um, I..."
"You forgot to take your breakfast." Fang Chengzhou smiled gently and handed her a coffee set, without a hint of a crack in his composure.
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Until she turned twenty-four, Fu Yao's life had been like a puppet on strings.
She failed the graduate school entrance exam and civil service exams one after another. Her parents told her to return to their county and obediently go on blind dates, but she escaped to Hangzhou and became a contract urban management officer.
The night she played a bride in a traditional Hanfu wedding on the water, she got drunk and let herself rebel for once. She thought it would be a fleeting affair that ended at dawn.
Until she discovered...
The landlord of the old house she rented was Fang Chengzhou.
The owner of the coffee shop downstairs was also him.
Even more terrifying, when she brushed off the matchmaking lady and whipped out her "marriage certificate," the person involved was leaning against the office doorway, smiling faintly.
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"How about we get married for real?" Fu Yao said solemnly.
Fang Chengzhou calmly used the tip of his knife to split open a bamboo shoot. "Have you been drinking again today, Miss Fu?"
He looked at her, slow but firm. "I can marry you, but I won't agree to a fake marriage."
Later, Fu Yao clutched her increasingly swollen belly and rubbed her aching waist, feeling that she had eaten too much in every sense of the word.
So the young woman marched over to confront him.
Fang Chengzhou rolled up his sleeves, leaned one hand against the kitchen counter, and held his chopsticks in the other. He fed her a piece of freshly cooked pork with cherries and asked with a smile, "Sweet enough?"
Very. Incredibly sweet.
Theme: Savor the beauty of life
