I Didn't Know He'd Loved Me for Ten Years Until After We Married

[Secret Love Turns to Marriage + Long-Planned Scheme + Intense Push and Pull] On the night the Wen family went bankrupt, Wen Jianjian signed an agreement with Sheng Mingyu: ten million yuan in exchange for a one-year marriage. She treated it as a cold business deal, right up until her first night in his home… After moving into the Sheng residence, she found the bedding material she had loved since childhood on their marital bed, and the dress that had sat in her shopping cart for three months hanging in her walk-in closet. She deliberately wore his shirt as pajamas. He pinned her against the closet and warned in a low voice, “If you wear my clothes, you have to accept the consequences.” When she kissed his Adam’s apple while drunk, his breathing turned ragged. He asked hoarsely, “Wen Jianjian, do you know who I am?” She thought he was cold and restrained, never realizing that beneath his calm exterior lay a desire for her that had burned for ten years. When she saw that his affection score had stayed at 100 and asked, “Did you know me from the start?” Sheng Mingyu took her hand and pressed it beside the pillow, then kissed her ear and replied, his voice burning with emotion, “I’ve waited ten years for you to realize who I am.” It wasn’t until she found the old candy tin that she realized every agreement and coincidence had been part of his long-planned secret love. In public, he was a cold, abstinent business magnate. In private, even kissing the small of her back made him tremble. When she pulled away, he drew closer. When she put on a brave front, he gently saw through it. This marriage had never been a transaction; it was a trap he had set to lure her into his arms. [I use an agreement as a net and marriage as a prison, betting that you’ll eventually fall in love with me.] Cold, domineering CEO × laid-back heiress. He has loved her in secret for ten years; she falls for him in a single moment. “Sheng Mingyu, you’re breaking character!” “Only with you. I never wanted to pretend.” The cold CEO and the laid-back heiress finally reach the moment she falls for him, after ten years of secret love.