A Whirlwind Marriage with a Sly Old Fox

About the story

Gu Xi is staying with her sister's in-laws, and her sister's mother-in-law wants to marry her off. She asks her best friend to introduce a boyfriend, but mistakes someone else for the blind date. To her surprise, he immediately proposes a whirlwind marriage. With nowhere else to turn, Gu Xi agrees to register their marriage. Only afterward does she learn that Fu Nanzhou is her best friend's youngest maternal uncle, and she mistakenly believes she is a substitute for his idealized first love. Her brother-in-law and his mother repeatedly come to harass them and plot against her, but Fu Nanzhou firmly protects his wife several times and has the wrongdoers dealt with according to the law. As they live together, Gu Xi gradually falls for him, and Fu Nanzhou clears up the rumors that she is a substitute. The antagonist Gao Ning keeps sowing discord, only to suffer the consequences. By the sea, Fu Nanzhou makes a romantic proposal, giving them the courtship and proposal they missed as they look forward to the rest of their lives together.