『A Playboy Who Falls in Love at First Sight After Rejecting His Marriage』
Spoiler Alert / Love at First Sight / Face-Slapping Moment / Playboy Ever since he was young, Pei Qingyan knew he had a "fiancée" he had never met, and his brows would knit tightly every time it came up. He had seen too many tragedies among aristocratic families bound by marriage alliances — his cousin was forced to marry a woman he didn't love and drowned his sorrows in drink day after day; his elder female cousin married into a wealthy family only to be tormented by her mother-in-law, wasting away in gloom at a young age. He didn't want to become someone like that, and even less did he want some stranger he'd never met to become the shackle of his life. From that moment on, he began to resist this marriage — why should marriage be decided by his parents? He didn't even know if the other party was round or flat, so why should he marry a woman he'd never laid eyes on? He started spending more and more time out of the house — horse riding, archery, hunting, making friends — trying every pastime he could find. He deliberately avoided any topic related to the engagement, and whenever his parents brought it up, he'd find an excuse to slip away. Before long, word spread throughout the capital that he was a dissolute young master who resisted his marriage.