Shen Nanke and Meng Tingshen were lifelong arch-nemeses, clashing from the moment they were born and constantly at odds with each other. They were always at each other’s throats, and nothing ever went smoothly between them.

Meng Tingshen: “I don’t like Shen Nanke.”

Shen Nanke: “If Meng Tingshen were the only man left in the world, I’d still choose a toy.”

After an unexpected incident where they ended up in bed together, their families, who were pressuring them into marriage, pushed them into agreeing to a wedding.

Meng Tingshen: “We have no feelings for each other. We can get married and divorced easily. Once we’ve dealt with the family, we can part ways anytime.”

Shen Nanke calculated: If Meng Tingshen were to die during their marriage, she would be the primary beneficiary, inheriting all of her arch-nemesis’s assets—a profitable deal.

With their rare agreement, they promptly went to the civil affairs bureau to get their marriage license.

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After marriage, Meng Tingshen, who had always kept a distance from the kitchen, silently started looking up recipes, researching new dishes, and trying to win Shen Nanke’s favor through her stomach, hoping this would lead to them spending nights together.

Claiming never to fall in love, that emotions were troublesome, and insisting on remaining single, the stubborn Meng Tingshen sent a wedding planning document to his best friend at midnight, asking, “Can you check if there’s anything missing? Will this wedding make her feel my determination to love her for life and never divorce?”