Green Hills Like Jade
Themes: Arranged Marriage, Age Gap, Slow-Burn Romance, Sweet Everyday Life
From a scholarly family, the gentle and elegant Chu Shuang had always known about her engagement to the prestigious Sheng family of the capital. However, she had never once met her fiancé.
Fate intervenes when she ends up staying at the Sheng family estate and meets her sister’s older brother, Sheng Yang—a refined and noble man with striking looks, well exceeding the standard for a marriage partner.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Sheng family comes to officially propose. To her surprise, it’s not Sheng Yang but his stoic and aloof uncle, Sheng Ting.
"Uncle, why isn’t Sheng Yang here?"
"Why should he be?"
"You're all here to propose on his behalf—why isn't he present?"
The man’s dark eyes fix on her for a moment before he replies, his words precise and deliberate:
"The one proposing is me."
Stunned, Chu Shuang is left speechless as Sheng Ting’s declaration settles like a whisper in the evening breeze.
“But my engagement with the Sheng family was…”
“Always with me.”
After marriage, the two live like courteous strangers, each minding their own space.
But odd things begin happening. Chu Shuang starts sleepwalking every few days—always ending up in Sheng Ting’s room!
Faced with surveillance footage handed to her by her stern-faced husband, Chu Shuang nervously promises it won’t happen again. Yet, it does… repeatedly.
After countless incidents, she begins to suspect something’s amiss.
One evening, while pretending to be asleep, she watches as her bedroom door creaks open. Sheng Ting enters, scoops her up, and carries her straight to his room.
Case solved!
Chu Shuang is stunned. Is this the same aloof, reserved man she thought she knew?