Mr. Pei, There's a Loophole in Your Engagement

Wen Yan receives an outrageously lucrative restoration commission. Tucked into the final page of the contract is a marriage partnership agreement. Pei Shen lays both documents on the table, speaking as if he’s outlining a project: sign them together, and the term is one year. The marriage verification, living together, and public appearances all follow a set procedure. She should have turned and walked away. But the final page of the quote lists an advance payment she cannot refuse. Worse, the damaged artifact she has been hired to restore bears a chisel mark that only her sect would recognize. Twelve years ago, her martial aunt disappeared. Twelve years later, her employer has added marriage to the project list. For the next year, he’ll verify the marriage while she restores the truth. Neither of them expects the first thing to be restored to be something other than the artifact.