A Secret Newlywed

[Gentle and resilient heroine & proud, calculating hero] [Both sexually inexperienced + married first, love later + secret crush comes true + slow-burn romance] Chi Wanzhen has loved Lu Huaizhi since high school. But in their senior year, Lu Huaizhi suddenly left, and she never heard from him again. Her unspoken crush came to an unfortunate end. She thought they would never meet again, and never imagined that she would ever hit the jackpot. But it really happened. Not only did she meet Lu Huaizhi again, she married him. After they married, they treated each other with courtesy, and Chi Wanzhen was content. But one day, the girlish feelings she had hidden deep inside a tin box were discovered. Lu Huaizhi held her beneath him, his eyes damp. “I’m sorry. I was too late to fall in love with you.” Chi Wanzhen held him back. “You’re not too late.” A secret crush had always been her own one-woman show. Years later, he fell in love with her, and that was the best ending she could have hoped for. In everyone’s eyes, Chi Wanzhen was a well-behaved girl: gentle, sweet, and always proper. And she truly was. In her more than twenty years of life, she had rebelled only three times. The first was when she defied her mother’s wishes and chose the sciences in high school. The second was when she secretly loved Lu Huaizhi for ten years. The third was when she married Lu Huaizhi without telling anyone. Lu Huaizhi had rebelled many times, but the thing he regretted least was marrying Chi Wanzhen against everyone’s objections. She was the one who came running to him before. For the rest of their lives, he would be the one to run to her.