Contractual Marriage: We’re Meant to Be Together

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Yan Chuyang has been crazy about Wei Qing for a long time, but Wei Qing doesn’t like Yan Chuyang. Frankly speaking, he doesn’t like anyone but himself. However, owing to the pressure from his father, he has to marry Yan Chuyang. After the interview with Yan Chuyang, Wei Qing finds Yan Chuyang an eligible candidate of contractual marriage in all aspects and decisively signs the contract with him. In this case, Yan Chuyang has got his wish and “married” to Wei Qing. At the beginning, Wei Qing thinks that his life after marriage would be nothing different, but unexpectedly, it turns out to be sweet as honey.

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cakeandpie
cakeandpie rated it
January 11, 2021
Status: c27
This could have been a cute story.

The shou is really sympathetic: a cute, hard-working art student with good intentions and a sob story background. He made it to college on charity thanks to the gong, on whom he has a long-standing crush. You immediately want this guy to succeed.

The gong, who doesn't know anything about the shou, comes from a wealthy family of gay dads, gay uncles, and gay grandfathers. He's kind of pompous and firmly believes himself to be straight. He has a lot of resentment for his two... more>> dads. He refers to his genetic father as a sperm donor, doesn't seem to believe his other dad ever really acted as a parent to him, and blames them for ending his only romantic relationship. His girlfriend ran away and married another man, supposedly because she was too homophobic. The gong now runs the family business. He agrees to a contract marriage with a man when his dads manipulate him into it. As you read this, you're hoping the gong has misunderstood his parents and will develop a better relationship with them as he deepens his romance with the shou.

Unfortunately, manipulation is a recurring theme in this story.

There's a recurring pattern in which characters treat each other like toys and disregard the consequences. Nobody respects the gong's heterosexuality, which is deeply unfair to him. Even if the gong really is gay and hasn't realized it yet, it's all kinds of disrespectful and nasty to insist other people know better than he does. Yet, because this is a BL novel, we're expected to "know" the gong is gay and forgive what the other characters do.

The shou lies to the gong. He says he's not gay, that he has a girlfriend already, and that he doesn't have a long-standing crush on him. He pretends to have no romantic interest in the gong so the gong will agree to the contract marriage, but the whole time he has an agenda. The gong's parents lie to the gong, saying the gene dad needs a life-threatening operation so the gong will agree to get married. The shou manipulates the gong into agreeing to a marriage contract that says they have to kiss on the lips daily, pretending it's research for a class he's taking. The characters even lie about smaller things that indicate the author either wasn't actually thinking about them as people, or just plain doesn't care how manipulative they appear when they casually lie. For example, the shou sends the housekeeper home, the gong asks why she didn't make dinner, and the shou says it's because she asked for the day off due to a family emergency. Like, no. That could totally have negative consequences for her employment. She was following your orders, don't lie to her boss! Later, the shou gets kicked out of the house and sits in a pitiful heap by the door, waiting for the gong to find him there, not because he feels depressed or sad, but explicitly because he wants to manipulate the gong into inviting him back into the house. Then there's the fujoshi who wants the shou to audio record an intimate encounter for her enjoyment. Like... what??? Who does that? And who the heck would agree?

It's like the manipulation and the boundary violations never end. Nor does the repeated sabotaging and disrespect of the gong's stated heterosexuality.

If I wanted to read about emotional abuse and manipulative seducers, there's a long list of those stories on NU where it's blatant and sometimes fun in a fantasy way. Meanwhile, this story is trying to be cute and fluffy but comes across as dark.

I know this is BL. We all want the cute devoted shou to win the icy gong's heart. But let's be respectful about it instead of nasty and gross. <<less
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Kiriya-kun
Kiriya-kun rated it
April 1, 2021
Status: --
I read the mtl...

[Wei Qing is psychotic.. he is so mental.. I don't even know why a he's the male lead.. And I completely misunderstood Song Huaqi.. even if he's not perfect.. He's 200x better than this psycho.

Reasons: go ahead and read if you don't mind spoilers

... more>> 1. He's obsessive not loving

He constant want YCY to care about him ONLY! Wei Yuan is YCY friend and WQ's cousin and he still don't approve of YCY to care about WY a bit more. If YCY's grandma was alive I'm really scared of what Wei Qing would do to make her disappear.. cause I think he would do it...

2. He's the biggest manipulator

Pulling the strings behind the result of the comic competition, making YCY lose so that he won't get the prize.

Making YCY feel guilty about leaving for Japan (YCY lifelong dream to work with a sensei he admired)

Forcing SHQ to conceal the fact the he was not the one who made the donation that saved YCY's grandmother.

Constantly guilt tripping YCY eventho it really is WQ's fault.

3. He has the mental capacity of a 5 year old child][/spoiler]

I just can't accept that this is HE.. It would've been better if YCY made it in life on his own without any love interest. <<less
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I read novels to live
I read novels to live rated it
May 31, 2022
Status: c140
This is like putting cotton candy around a lemon, this isn't sweet and it sure as hell ain't cute

Mc

[spoiler]Mc Is pretty persistent in his pursuit of the Ml, Mc lost his grandma and his mother abandoned him, he has no relatives, he gets married to ML pretty early on. Yan ChuYang Is that naive and adorable protagonist, And I think they made it a big success, MC is probably the most s*upidest person. No matter what happens, he never learns from... more>> his mistakes, that guy just donated money to ur grandma and some other people bc they needed help When he was a child... everyone changes and the cons outweigh the pros.

Ml

Spoiler

At the start I felt bad for him bc of the parents lied to him about one of his fathers having to go through surgery, but the author just seemed to just make it into some joke, his parents don't care about him since he was just one of his father's spontaneous act... Oh this guy is a major red flag, from getting mad at everyone close to MC, even MC's friends bc "Yan chuyang is mine" and he never listens to MC. An example of that is when MC didnt want people to know they were married (he was still studying) BUT HE TOLD THE 2ND MALE LEAD ANYWAY. And when MC was super freaking sick, with a pale face, an aching stomach and a very high fever, for a child... his ex girl's child. bruh that child wasn't even his. Now I wouldn't have been that mad since I liked that child... just hated the mother. But This guy left Yan Chuyang for a child that already had her guardian with her AND MC HAD FREKING NO ONE, afterwards ML then tries to play victim "I was so worried about you y'know, then this guy just tries to split us apart." second male lead, sent, MC, to. the. hospital. Then he says I'M A VICTIM JUST BC HE WAS WORRIED ABOUT MC??? anyway MC forgives him after saying 1-3 angry lines...

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Second Ml

Spoiler

This dude... Is a million no a billion times better than the MC and Ml. Although he has flaws it's good to hve some but unlike ML AND MC he learns from his mistakes... Except for loving Yan chuyang it seems. I shipped em with MC a bit but then I realised.. Nah MC doesn't deserve it, he might just go back to ML and break this guy's heart.

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Parents

The way the author talks about the parents in this novel is kinda worrying... That Ex gf's child.. She was the one that the broke up with ML yet she then wanted him back... So she thought 'I'll use my child to make him pity me and get back together.' the first parents we see is Ml's parents.. that are gay, their whole family is gay (no joke) The shou father is spoiled TO THE MAX and got a son 'Because it seemed cool' and when he got bored of Ml... he gave him a house of his own and made him live by himself... ML was 8 years old /spoiler]

It has a lot of things I hate about, and I dropped this bc I just got angry too much, bc after a few chapters, I just wished for MC and ML not to get together. But there was some funny parts, and you can probably enjoy this if you just turned off your brain. <<less
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Northdusk21
Northdusk21
August 29, 2021
Status: --
All I can say is what goes around comes around. The parents, the shou disgusting, deceptive conniving. Not good people none of them. This is not healthy, fluffy or does it even have a slightly good dynamics in regards to all relationship. Not a good read ft uncomfortable through it all
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fizakhan
fizakhan rated it
December 14, 2020
Status: Completed
Although the couple is sweet but due to lack of communication they have alot of misunderstandings between them. They married quite early in the beginning chapters but even after falling in love they didn't confess properly. So it contain alot of angsty and heart wrenching moments. It's not pure fluff. They only solved everything in almost last few chapters. People who want to read a fluffy and sweet story then this is not for them.
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