You Wasted Seven Years of My Life. Don't Cry When I Marry the Police Captain on a Whim

(Told from the heroine's perspective: marriage first, love later. The hero has been plotting for a long time.)

On her twenty-ninth birthday, Lin Zhixia thought her boyfriend of seven years would propose.

Instead, she accidentally caught him cheating with her stepsister.

Lin Zhixia made a clean break and agreed to marry a man she'd never met, just one month later.

But her seriously ill mother was still recuperating at the hospital where the scumbag worked, so Lin Zhixia had no choice but to keep up a false show of civility with him.

Just then, a promising young criminal investigation captain joined the local police station.

The two grew closer through their work...

When the scumbag realized something was wrong, he started sabotaging them in secret, only to bring to light a long-planned story from the past.

Lin Zhixia was stunned. "Captain Pei, you've liked me for that long?"

Pei Xiannan raised an eyebrow at her. "Of course. Good thing we still have our engagement. My wife can't get away from me!"

Lin Zhixia's ears turned red as she finally understood. "So it was you..."

Well, her flash-marriage partner was Pei Xiannan too. Looks like there was no escaping fate!