Paper Marriage

The Yu family spent twenty years meticulously shaping their second daughter, Yu Zhi, into the epitome of a refined young lady from a prestigious Beijing family. However, her slender 90-pound frame housed 89 pounds of rebellious spirit, with the remaining pound entirely composed of cunning. Yu Zhi had three lifelong aversions: first, she detested ballet; second, she loathed following rigid etiquette; and third, she feared Jiang Tingbai. But she married Jiang Tingbai. Jiang Tingbai often looked at his lawfully wedded wife—exquisite yet artificial—and felt as though he were reading the Russian literary classic *The Man in a Case*. He was also well aware that Yu Zhi couldn’t let go of the im...