Doting Marriage

"Gentle and ethereal Kunqu opera actress X refined scumbag business tycoon" Lu Shiyan first met Shen Jingshu when a friend dragged him to the Grand Theatre. On stage, the leading female role in the Kunqu opera, dressed in a pink robe adorned with pearls and jade, her eyes shimmering with charm, sang in a mellifluous voice: "In dreams, orioles sing, scattering the years in disarray..." His friend pointed at her: "Yan, this one I've got my eye on lately—she's pretty good, right?" Lu Shiyan, expressionless, rolled walnuts in his palm. "Mediocre." Yet on the way back, as if possessed, he listened to that excerpt from *The Peony Pavilion* once more. * Lu Shiyan met Shen Jingshu a second ti...