Flash marriage at 30 [Short Story]

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Zhang Dai and Chen Shuangshuang’s parents once joked that if they were still single by the age of thirty, they should just settle for each other! Both Zhang Dai and Chen Shuangshuang, who had been bickering since childhood, found this idea absolutely impossible. But fate had other plans.

One day, after a heartbreaking breakup, Chen Shuangshuang was in tears. Zhang Dai, ever the loyal friend, decided to help her drown her sorrows in alcohol. What happened next was completely unexpected. The morning after, Chen Shuangshuang, still reeling from the shock, kicked Zhang Dai and demanded he buy the morning-after pill.

She thought everything would be erased like chalk dust, but she accidentally took the wrong medicine and unfortunately got pregnant, and her family found out. After some deliberation, their families quickly arranged for them to get a marriage certificate and immediately held the wedding.

Skit 1:

Chen Shuangshuang, holding her pregnant belly: “Mom, he bullied me again!”

Zhang Dai, just scolded: “You’re already a mother, how can you still be so childish?”

Chen Shuangshuang, with a disdainful look: “You’re already a father, can’t you be more mature?”

Skit 2:

Chen Shuangshuang: “Zhang Dai, do you have abs? Can I pinch them?”

Zhang Dai: “Why can’t you keep your hands to yourself?”

After marriage, they both disliked each other and bickered constantly, making their married life quite lively!

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三十閃婚[小短篇]
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anaandlidaaretrzing
anaandlidaaretrzing rated it
December 5, 2024
Status: Completed
Translator review here!

The story is super lovely, short and sweet. It has practically no plot and no character development, but it's only 13 chapters long. I would recommend it to anyone who only has a little bit of free time and still wants to have a quick laugh.

The interactions between the main characters are absolutely hilarious. They are both quirky, quick to quarrel, but they love each other too.

Does it deserve 5 stars? When compared to a normal novel, absolutely not. But for what it is, it's worth checking out!
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ntww12
ntww12 rated it
February 13, 2025
Status: Completed
Honestly I felt a bit frustrated with the story because I didn't really like the trope: contract marriage between childhood friends - but one of them actually really likes the other.

ML has been in love with MC for the longest time but MC only thinks of him as a friend. Their bickering is kinda cute at first but I felt it was rather juvenile at times lol. MC keeps pushing ML away, and ML has to work really hard to capture MC's heart.

Some of the things they do also makes... more>> me shake my head. I guess they wanted to do a bit of childhood friends banter / enemies-to-lovers kinda theme. For example, MC and ML are buying some baby items. MC asks ML's opinion on what to buy and after ML gives a thorough analysis of the toys and the pros of buying Item A... MC then tells the salesperson, just let us buy the one ML didn't choose. -.- Kinda petty imo.

The last chapter made things better. It's when both of them revealed they actually liked each other. I wished we could've more hints that MC liked ML too as it wasn't very clear. I think the novel could've been better if we knew it was a mutual liking but hidden between uncertainty. Because while we had ML's diary to know his true thoughts, MC's diary only showed her "dislike" initially and we only found out at the end.

Oh well, still a cute novel to read to pass the time. <<less
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chande
chande rated it
June 15, 2025
Status: Completed
It's a childhood frenemy turned into a couple trope. They actually secretly liked each other but while I could see clearly that ML loved FL, I couldn't see it in FL. Idk, maybe because the story was short so there were many details that were omitted.
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