Mrs. Fu Is Still a Stranger to Her Husband After Marriage

The whole story is one cup of milk tea. I write and revise as I go. Pirated versions are incomplete. Thanks for supporting the official version.

Upcoming works: Itch and Sweltering Rainy Season [Reunited After a Long Separation] are at the end.

Suggested reading order: If you want a sweet-and-sour flavor, read the main story in order and finish with the extras. If you'd rather start with a bittersweet taste, read the chapters about their engagement in the extras first.

The marriage between Lian Li and Fu Yanzhi was decided by the Fu family's patriarch.

A marriage of convenience was a business deal, after all. They would just play their roles, each get what they needed, and treat each other with respect afterward.

But she ruined the whole act on the very first page of the script

On their wedding day, Lian Li took the wrong groom's arm.

The man glanced sideways, his voice icy. "Mrs. Fu, take a good look."

After that, Fu Yanzhi never looked her in the eye again.

On the third day of their marriage, Lian Li ran into a strange man in the bathroom, wearing nothing but a bath towel.

Her scream echoed through the Fu family mansion.

The man brushed past her. "Mrs. Fu, I'm here legally."

Less than a month after the wedding, Fu Yanzhi flew to Canada on a business trip and didn't return for more than two months.

The day he came back, his black Maybach stopped by the side entrance to her school.

Clutching her notes, Lian Li silently recited his identifying features: a mole behind his left ear, a knife scar on his left index finger...

Fully prepared, she rose onto her toes and smiled nervously. "Fu, "

The so-called "husband" politely opened the car door for her. "Madam, sir is in the car."

Before getting in, Lian Li took a deep breath. Just three years. She could put up with that.

·

A friend told Fu Yanzhi to take it easy. A marriage of convenience was just for show. They could divorce in a couple of years, and he could always pay her more compensation.

The man said nothing, but his gaze grew darker.

A year later, the friend brought it up again, asking when he would divorce and offering to introduce Fu Yanzhi to his cousin, who had just returned from studying abroad.

Fu Yanzhi shot him a murderous glare. "Mind your own business. Since when do you get to interfere in our marriage?"

After returning home, Fu Yanzhi sneaked into his study behind Lian Li's back like a thief.

He took the agreement they had signed before the wedding out of the safe and fed it into the shredder. That still wasn't enough, so he flushed the scraps down the toilet before he finally felt at ease.

When he turned around, Lian Li was holding a few thin sheets of paper, smiling at him. "Tearing up the agreement on your own doesn't count!"

Fu Yanzhi stepped forward and circled her slender, pale wrist with his hand. He bent down and kissed her between the brows. "I regret it. Mrs. Fu, will you give me another chance?"

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A little extra scene~

Fu Yanzhi found a sketch in one of Lian Li's textbooks.

"Not bad. Do you usually sneak peeks at me a lot?"

"Give it back..."

Lian Li's ears turned red as she tried to snatch it away. The man raised his hand, a faint smile on his lips. "You're pretty thorough."

At Fu Yanzhi's thirty-first birthday party, his friends and family were left speechless by the earring glinting in his left ear.

His childhood friend teased him. "At the ripe old age of thirty, Fu is boldly joining the nonconformists. Have you been in the gaming industry so long that you've rediscovered your roots?"

He rubbed his slightly swollen earlobe and looked past the crowd toward a corner. "Now you can't mistake me, right?"

1. The hero is seven years older. The heroine is sexually inexperienced. One-on-one pairing, happy ending.

2. The heroine has acquired face blindness. Unless she sees someone every day, she'll forget them after one meeting.

3. The hero is a rabid dog to everyone else but a loyal dog to his wife, her number-one lackey.

4. The heroine's career growth + daily life before and after marriage. A couple falling in love, with pregnancy and childbirth.

5. Not an overwhelmingly sweet story; three parts bittersweet.

Upcoming novel Itch: a curvy, honest married woman x a mean, hot-tempered college boy; younger puppy love~~

Cheng Yuxin was an utterly ordinary woman. She studied, worked, went on blind dates, got married, and methodically completed every major milestone in life.

Likewise, after seven years, her marriage inevitably reached the point where they couldn't stand the sight of each other.

She admitted she was timid and indecisive, unable to perform surgery on a marriage that was already terminally ill.

Until one night, her husband knocked on her door.

"Yuxin, we need to talk."

He said the girl worked at his company and was lively and sweet.

He said he was at a critical point in his career and couldn't afford any trouble.

He said they'd been married for seven years without children, while the girl was pregnant.

He said, "Yuxin, how about we get divorced?"

Back in her room, Cheng Yuxin staggered, nearly falling. A pair of strong arms caught her and pulled her into an embrace.

Through the wall was her guilty husband. The woman's breathing was unsteady, her gaze unfocused, as if her whole world were about to be turned upside down.

Tang Su felt the person in his arms trembling. He lowered his head and leaned close to her ear.

"Yuxin, say yes."

-

Two months earlier, her husband had brought home a young man and left him in her care.

Cheng Yuxin knew the boy by reputation

As the youngest champion in China's rally racing scene, Tang Su had his family's automaker behind him. He founded his own team at eighteen and swept up awards at every level at nineteen, unbeatable on the track.

Of course, what people cared about most was his cool, defiant face.

Unfortunately, Tang Su himself was no more harmless than he looked.

No commercial endorsements, no interviews, no publicity stunts.

The word "difficult" had practically become synonymous with the young man's personality.

Cheng Yuxin had thought that living under the same roof as a pampered boy, precious and coddled, would be the most excruciating two months of her life.

But that wasn't what happened

When she casually mentioned that a few streetlights at the intersection were broken, Tang Su came to meet her in the pouring rain in the middle of the night.

The moment their eyes met, Tang Su deliberately looked away. "I just happened to be coming downstairs."

She thought Tang Su wasn't that hard to get along with after all.

So she overlooked the missing intimate clothing, the faint breathing by her bedside when she had a high fever, and...

When had he stopped calling her "sister-in-law"?

-

"He's not coming back tonight."

A young man's characteristic swagger filled his eyes and brows. His voice held not a trace of impatience as he waited at ease for her answer, looking at her like prey trapped beneath his claws, unable to escape.

How had things turned out like this?

Cheng Yuxin didn't understand.

She had only gotten drunk after a dinner out and accidentally walked into the wrong room.

A little extra scene:

She saw her ex-husband again at her wedding to Tang Su.

After leaving the marriage with nothing and then getting fired from his job, her ex-husband looked ten years older after only two years.

The instigator smiled and took Cheng Xin's hand, walking up to him with the utmost gentleness. "Yuxin, come thank our matchmaker."

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