Spring Fever of Seduction

[Older man with a fatherly vibe | six-year age gap | powerful man lowers his head | both are each other's first | sweet romance | heroine falls in love after marriage | hero deliberately tempts her]

In the second year after Jing Sheng was acknowledged by her wealthy birth family, the family's adopted daughter ran away from her wedding, and Jing Sheng's parents forced her to take her place and marry the Pei family's second son.

Everyone pitied her, laughing that she was a pawn with no say in her own life.

But outside the banquet hall, the Pei family's stern, cold-blooded patriarch, a man who always got his way and the older brother of her intended fiancé, pulled her tightly into his arms. His scorching palm gripped her waist.

His burning kiss fell on her trembling lashes, and his forceful possession was wrapped in a secret madness.

Spring tides swept over the wilderness. His calm, restrained facade crumbled piece by piece. Every tenderness he showed her was bait he had laid with careful intent long ago.

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The first time Pei Jinchuan saw Jing Sheng was at her blind date with his younger brother.

At a glance, he saw the stubbornness and inner turmoil beneath her meek exterior.

When she lowered her head and dropped her gaze, her pale neck looked fragile enough to snap, yet her back remained ramrod straight. She was like a thorn growing through a crack in a stone, and he was willing to do anything to have her.

The only impulse Pei Jinchuan ever gave in to was the desire to see what she was like beneath her obedient facade.

So he patiently coaxed her, cornering her in a secluded spot and murmuring in a voice like a spell.

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Pei Jinchuan never offered Jing Sheng salvation. Instead, he lifted her from the mud with his own hands, then stood beside her as they watched the sunlight together.

Jing Sheng thought she had taken ninety-nine steps toward him, never realizing that while she was still hesitating, Pei Jinchuan had already crossed the brambles and taken a hundred and one steps toward her.

[Guiding, fatherly hero x sweet, gentle, stubborn heroine with a bit of a stubborn streak]

One-on-one romance, no contrived drama, slice of life.