Looking for a Marriage-First, Love-Later Story 我想找一个先婚后爱的
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Be Good, Baby, Let Daddy Hold You! The Obsessive Big Shot Coaxes Her in a Low Voice 宝宝乖老公抱!病娇大佬低声诱哄
[Completed] [So sweet! All sweetness, all the time. A pampered, silly little crybaby × a possessive, lovesick narcissist. Married first, fall in love later, plus a daddy-type husband] Si Linyuan married a princess through a family alliance. Faced with a woman who could not even eat a meal by herself, could he return her? Ling Luoluo looked aggrieved. “Luoluo will be good. •́‸ก” Si Linyuan looked disgusted. “Could you wipe away your tears first?” He must have had eight lifetimes’ worth of bad luc
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A Good Night's Sleep 今夜有好眠
[00-born woman vs. 90-born man | Twelve-year age gap | Little white rabbit vs. old fox | Fake marriage turns real | Married first, love later | Coming-of-age romance | The husband’s long road to winning back his wife] At a banquet, waitress Lin Weiwei was drugged by an acquaintance. In desperation, she threw herself into the arms of Meng Haohuai, a man she’d met only once. It was supposed to be a brief fling, but two months later, Lin Weiwei received a report confirming her pregnancy. The huge g
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My Rich Husband Is Lame and Blind. Don't Be Afraid, I'll Protect Him 富豪老公残又瞎,别怕,我来护他
[An optimistic, sunny heroine] and [a patient, disabled tycoon lying low] in a [sapiosexual romance] [Both virgins + married first, love later + pure, indulgent fluff + relaxed family life + heir rivalry] Before her wedding, Song Qingming knew only that her future husband had lost both his parents, and owned a car and a house. Then they met. Well, well. Matchmakers really do have silver tongues, and liars really do wear masks. Why hadn’t anyone mentioned that he was lame and blind? For a million
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Searching for a Branch 寻枝
[Coolheaded, brilliant, tragic heroine X scheming prince pretending to be a spoiled playboy] [Marriage before love + bickering couple + political intrigue + redemption + revenge + secret identities] Liu Xunyi is the Empress Dowager’s most trusted enforcer, beautiful and cold, with a knack for killing corrupt officials. During a mission, she accidentally crossed the notorious spoiled prince, Ye Simang. As it happened, the Empress Dowager granted them a marriage, bringing them together. This newly
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Mr. Wen, Happy Married Life 温先生,婚后愉快
[Long-planned romance + secret crush + slow-burn love + sweet pampering + both devoted to each other + no angst + age gap of about five years] [Not a strong female lead] [Short drama: As Tender as Before, now streaming] * [Gentle, elegant Jiangnan beauty & reserved, composed business tycoon] Rong Yan had lived with her maternal grandfather since childhood. When she heard that he had found her a match, she assumed it would be the second son of the Wen family, Wen, who was also a doctor. She had n
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A Blind Date and Flash Marriage: Her College Heartthrob Turns Out to Be a Doting Rich Heir 相亲闪婚,大学男神竟是宠妻豪门
[Married First, Love Later + Mutual Secret Crush + Playing Dumb to Outsmart the Powerful + Reunion After Years Apart + CEO’s Sweet Devotion] Throughout her four years at university, the scatterbrained Qiao Mian secretly loved Lu Xiyan, the “eternal iceberg.” At graduation, she finally worked up the courage to confess: “Lu Xiyan, I like you!” His reply was utterly calm: “I know. Thank you.” Later, he went abroad, and everything came to an abrupt end. Three years after they parted, she unexpectedl
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Only When Love Cuts to the Bone Does Longing Finally Show 惊觉相思不露,原来只因入骨
In Sifang City, there is a woman with a notoriously bad reputation: Sheng Xia. Men think she’ll sleep with anyone. Women think she’s shameless and promiscuous. But in truth, she simply fell in love with one person. For him, for the first time in her life, she resorted to the most despicable means. Five years into their marriage, she endured his sneers and emotional abuse. She risked her life for him again and again, yet still couldn’t earn so much as a second glance. “Yi Ye, is it really so hard
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My Wife Seems Cold and Aloof? No Matter, I’m a Weirdo! 憨憨老婆高冷?没事,我是变态!
Tags: [One Female Lead] [Romance] [Everyday Life] [Marriage Before Love] [Very Sweet] [Lighthearted] [Healing] Jiang Xiaobei’s secret is that she can’t remember anyone’s face. Lin Jiuwu: “You have face blindness.” Jiang Xiaobei: “I do. So we can come up with a code phrase. Next time we meet, you can call me by my name. I’m After Rain on Empty Mountain, and you’re Autumn Weather.” Lin Jiuwu: “...” This sounds like a secret rendezvous. What’s it like to have a wife with face blindness? One woman w
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Marriage Before Love: The Young Master’s Wife Is Not to Be Provoked 先婚后爱:大少奶奶不能惹
Yan Ning, a woman as mild as a wisp of smoke, actually showed up at the door demanding they marry!? They were betrothed as babies, how novel. Young Master Liu, Yun Tao, agreed. After the wedding, news that the young master planned to take a concubine spread through the entire Liu household in no time. Everyone knew, from Liu Yi right down to every goldfish in the manor, that the young master had flown into a rage at Qingxin Courtyard because Yan Ning couldn't bear him a child, and had threatened
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After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Was Pulled into My Younger Uncle's Arms 退婚后,被小叔叔揽腰宠
Diva × Daddy-Type | Mutual Firsts / HE Ruan Li had been adopted and treated like a pampered young heiress for over a decade. Then one day, the real daughter was suddenly found. She took Ruan Li’s room, connections, and even her fiancé. When the real daughter persuaded their parents to marry her off to a middle-aged tycoon, Ruan Li turned to the one man no one dared offend: her former fiancé’s uncle. Late one night, she pretended to be scared and knocked on Fu Huaizhou’s door in her pajamas. “Unc
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Roses of the Capital at Night 京夜玫瑰
(The rating has just been released~ [Marriage first, love later + A long-laid plan + Devoted, sweet, and seductive romance + Mutual teasing and coaxing] [Cool and radiant designer ✖️ Cultured yet wicked power player in Beijing's elite circle] Hailed in business circles as an untouchable beauty, Xie Chengci has a refined, handsome face that is always cool and distant. His intentions are impossible to read, and he acts with swift decisiveness. He's known as the one big shot in Beijing's elite circ
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President Song, Your Wife Wants a Divorce Again and Again 宋总,太太又又又要离婚了
The rating was just posted, so it'll go up~ [Gloomy, aloof CEO VS spoiled, beautiful heiress] [Marriage first, love later + powerful-family alliance + falling in love over time] … Shangguan Zhi and Song Yan had never gotten along since childhood. Their families went and arranged a marriage between them anyway. … Two months after the wedding, Shangguan Zhi decided Song Yan wasn't so bad after all. His only flaw was that he had no romantic sense. One: One day, Shangguan Zhi went to find Song Y
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Forced Into an Arranged Marriage, the Crown Prince Falls for Her 被迫联姻,太子爷对她着了迷
[The print edition of Warm Breeze Ripples is now available on all platforms] [Gentle, refined beauty X unruly, flamboyant young master] Su Wanyi has a figure that's neither too slender nor too full, a gentle and lovely face, an elegant, noble bearing, and a mastery of embroidery. Shang Yichen, eldest young master of an immensely wealthy family, is a rebel who loves his freedom. He spends most of his time roaming outside, having tried every activity that gets the adrenaline pumping, from racing a
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Steal Her Away for a Kiss 拐走亲一口
Puppy-boy romance! The rating is low because the story is new, so please don't be put off by it. “A slow, steady romance + love at first sight for the male lead, who's a lovestruck straight shooter.” Both leads are sexually inexperienced! “Chu the Tease × Lin the Feisty One” Lin Beian was still single at 28, and Guo Xia was more desperate to marry off her daughter than a rainmaker praying for rain. Then she ran into the doctor who had treated her just yesterday at a blind date? Lin Beian never d
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A Night of Kisses on the Edge 夜吻悬溺
[Cool, refined good girl in disguise × rebellious young heir] [From college to the city + mutual pining + both devoted to each other + powerful families in Beijing + academic overachievers] P.S. The rating just came out and is likely to rise. The notorious young heir of Beijing comes from an illustrious family. Rebellious and unpredictable, he exudes an innate air of privilege and freedom, making him seem untouchable to everyone around him. Xu Zhao is the campus beauty of Jing University’s law
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A Flirtatious Summer Breeze 暧昧夏风
[Mutual healing] [School life] [Both fall for each other] [Cool, diligent honor student × unruly, gifted heir] Everyone thinks Li Xia and Sheng Yan have nothing in common and could never be a match. They did sit together for a year, though: one was a cool, quiet honor student, aloof as a flower on a high peak, while the other was an unruly prodigy who flouted convention. At their two-year high school reunion, Li Xia arrives late after a hospital internship. After a few rounds of drinks, the
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After Becoming the White Moonlight, I Was Spoiled by the Powerful CEO 穿成白月光后被大佬宠宠上天
Mu Ruo transmigrated into a tragic romance novel she'd just started reading, becoming a character who was married to a stunning company president returning from abroad. But she was hopelessly in love with the childhood-friend male lead and constantly framed the sweet, innocent female lead. In the end, her husband and family abandoned her, and she met a gruesome death. Mu Ruo had no intention of repeating the original owner's mistakes. She kept her distance from the leads, moved back into the hom
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Out of Control! My Abstinent Boss Secretly Flirts with Me Every Day 失控!禁欲上司每天都在偷偷撩我
Wen Qiao had been with Jin Pingzhou for six years before she learned she was nothing but a laughable stand-in. One word from him, “I’m bored,” was all it took for her to vanish from his life for good. After that, Wen Qiao impulsively married a stranger. A month after getting their marriage licenses, they still hadn’t met once. They ran into each other again at a company department gathering. Wen Qiao lost a game of Truth or Dare, and at her coworkers’ urging, was told to undo a man’s belt. Just
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Married at First Sight! Our Love Never Closes 闪婚!心动永不打烊
[Both Pure + Marriage First, Love Later + Sweet Everyday Romance ❤️ + Flirty and Heartwarming] [Cool, Distinguished CEO of a Powerful Capital Family × Gentle, Talented University Lecturer] Shen Jichuan first met Jiang Jinhuan at a matchmaking dinner arranged by his family. It was his first blind date, and the beginning of a lifetime of falling for her. Jiang Jinhuan is the only daughter of the Jiang family. She’s smart, comes from a good family, and is beautiful. Shen Jichuan was raised by the S
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Tease Him! Defy Him! My Best Friend's Uncle Has Ulterior Motives 招惹!蛮抗!闺蜜小叔他心怀不轨
Original title: Tempt Me! Defy Me! My Best Friend's Uncle Has an Agenda [Scandal-Plagued Star × Entertainment Industry's Moneybags]*Adult Romance* [Heiress to a Media Empire × Powerful Capital City Scion]*Falling Head Over Heels* [Aggressive Flirting + Marriage Before Love + Long-Laid Plans + Age Gap + Healing + Dating Show] Li Zhi's public image crumbles, and she becomes a has-been overnight. After drinking freely at a bar, she is drugged and grabs a random man to get herself out of trouble. Wh
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Then Let Me Cheer You Up 那我哄哄你
{A flamboyant, unruly rich young master x A stunning, refined heiress} {Marriage first, love later + Two wealthy families + A long road to winning back his wife + Both leads are chaste} Everyone knows that Second Young Master Cheng is arrogant and untamable, flamboyant and reckless, with a haughty, cold-hearted streak. He’s notorious for being impossible to deal with, and no matter how well-behaved the Xu family’s daughter is, she won’t be able to tame this wild horse. The public’s verdict on t
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After We Got Our Marriage License, the Chaste Fu Lord Spoils Me Rotten 领证后,禁欲傅爷又宠又撩
[One-on-one, both leads have no past relationships, sweet romance, equally powerful leads, love at first sight, long-planned romance, mutual devotion] Shen Xingwan, an orphaned country girl, decided to go to S City and fulfill her engagement to the fiancé she'd never met, honoring her grandmother's dying wish. Fu Tingye, the head of the Fu family in S City, is cold and ruthless, keeps women at a distance, and is an untouchable beauty on a high peak. One day... “Mr. Fu, would you be willing to ma
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He Can't Stop Thinking About Me 他对我,念念不忘
[One-on-one romance, both leads are each other’s first and only, reunion after years apart, childhood sweethearts] [Series: Book One, She’s Too Sweet] “A long road to winning his wife back” “Proud, willful heiress vs. scheming, devoted childhood sweetheart, Master Quan” The owner of Xiyu Design Studio is a beauty. She’s proud, high-profile, and flamboyant, and has offended plenty of people over the years, yet she still lives freely and confidently. She has no shortage of admirers, but always tel
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The Sweet Married Life of a Marriage of Convenience 塑料夫妻的甜婚日常
[One-on-one romance, both leads are inexperienced, wealthy-family romance, exceptional leads, marriage before love, happy ending] Heir to a wealthy family x overworked bank employee “I thought I was as ordinary and insignificant as a blade of grass by the roadside, until I met you.” “My love rose with the wind. I tucked it into a letter and sent it to you after we were married.” The author's second marriage-before-love novel, Kisses After the Wedding, is already written and updating regularly.
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Falling into the Spring Tide 坠落春潮
[Age Gap + Forbidden Tension + The Heroine Stops Pursuing Him Halfway, and He Goes Crazy for Love and Totally Loses It] On the eve of her engagement, Ning Xi learns that her childhood sweetheart and fiancé has betrayed their years of affection and gotten involved with another woman. She promptly calls off the engagement. Her ex-fiancé doesn’t take her seriously. He’s a golden boy, a rising star in finance, and he’s sure that with a background like Ning Xi’s, she’ll never let go of such a valuabl
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Surrendering to the Moonlight 于月色沉沦
Don't read this, don't read this. This was just writing practice, and it ended terribly. It's awful. [Seven-year age gap + sweet romance + secret crush comes true + happy ending + criminal investigation] A beautiful Jiangnan voice actress x a distinguished chamber of commerce president Sweet romance and story in the first half x light criminal investigation in the second Song Zhiyan and Zhou Chen'an's marriage was arranged by their grandfathers, and all these years she had considered herself the
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After the Secret Marriage [Showbiz] 隐婚之后【娱乐圈】
[Retired award-winning actress at the height of her success x little idol who entered showbiz for love] [Entertainment industry + variety show livestream + one-on-one, both leads sexually inexperienced + sweet romance + both leads speak their minds + no deliberately upsetting the fans] Gu Huaiyuan has a secret: he likes a female celebrity. To pursue his idol, he defied his family and went off on his own to make it in the entertainment industry. He never expected that just as he was making his de
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Crossing the Line to Fan the Flames 越界撩火
(Complete) [Age gap + abstinent older man steals his younger brother’s fiancée + sweet romance + devoted couple] [Distinguished, mature gentleman and translation-industry heavyweight × adorable little fox who acts sweet and helpless in public] Xie Zhiyu of the capital’s Xie family is the most dazzling among the city’s elite. In everyone’s eyes, he’s famously refined and composed, disciplined and courteous. No one could have imagined that he would “steal” his younger brother’s fiancée. After Ming
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The Scumbag Pretended to Have Amnesia, So I Turned and Fell into a Powerful Man's Arms 渣男装失忆,转身投入大佬怀抱
[Husband Pursues His Wife After Losing Her (And She's Not Coming Back) + Second Male Lead Takes the Lead + Secret Crush + Marriage First, Love Later + Long-Planned Romance + Sweet Pampering + Both Devoted Only to Each Other] Clear-headed heiress who loves boldly and fiercely × calm, restrained, gentle CEO Song Zhigeng pursued Fu Hui for two years, never imagining that a car accident would make those two years a complete waste. Outside the hospital room, she overheard Fu Hui had gone to great len
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Not Sweet 不甜
[Rekindled romance] [Bold, sunny woman who loves fiercely × refined gentleman with a charming smile and a scheming side] The first time Song Kui saw Chu Huaian, six years ago at the medical school of Jing University, she slipped a note into his pocket. “Mr. Chu, want to go out with me?” Six years later, when Chu Huaian saw Song Kui again at Jing University Hospital, he cornered her in her office. “Dr. Song, want to get back together?” The old Song Kui used to say, “What’s the point of dating Chu
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A Stained Marriage 染婚
[Clearheaded, top-tier model vs. rebellious, abstinent CEO] [Marriage first, love later + intense push and pull + mutual healing] After her blind date set her up, Mu Ran accidentally got involved with her best friend’s fiancé. She thought she was doomed, but it seemed like the whole world was urging them to get married. Her best friend at first: “Mu Ran, I thought we were friends. How could you cheat with my fiancé?” After changing her tune: “I have a solution that makes everyone happy. You and
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Faking a Secret Crush 伪装暗恋
[Secret crush + marriage first, love later + the wolf takes the upper hand + scheming to win his wife + both each other’s first] Wen Ting had been openly in love with Li Nanyu for eight years, and he was going to become her brother-in-law! So she turned around and married Shen Zhao, a heaven-blessed young man of impeccable character. As night deepened and the dew grew heavy, the “man of impeccable character” revealed his wolfish nature. “Tired? Bear with it.” Only later did she learn that Teache
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He Wants to Kiss Me Again 他又想亲我
[Bold, radiant heiress × refined, depraved man in power] Nian Yuan stood up her blind date, then headed straight to a bar. When she first met Sheng Yubei, she knew he was quite a catch. Never one to beat around the bush, she flirted with him and pursued him with fiery passion. Then an unexpected turn of events made Nian Yuan decide to leave. She walked away without hesitation, thinking their paths would never cross again. Until one night, the man pinned her forcefully against a wall. - As the he
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Waiting for the Grapes to Ripen 等葡萄熟透
[Upcoming Drama Adaptation] [Hong Kong Underworld Tycoon X Top-Tier Starlet] [Mutual First Love] [Sweet Romance] The first time Jiang Li met Luo Jinyan, he was sitting in the front of a Maybach, a cigar between his fingers and smoke curling around him. “You wrecked my place. How are you going to make it up to me?” Jiang Li knew who he was: Luo Jinyan, heir to Hong Kong's leading family. That year, on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, he bought her first kiss for a million yuan. He brushed her l
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The Arrogant Little Drama Queen and the Abstinent CEO: A Love Story 骄纵小作精,禁欲总裁宠妻成瘾
[Marriage first, love later × Two powerful families × Secret love fulfilled × Long-planned romance] News of the marriage alliance between the Cen and Sheng families sends shockwaves through Beijing’s elite circles. Everyone knows the Cen family’s young heiress is dazzlingly beautiful, but spoiled and willful. No one dares to cross her. With the Sheng family patriarch gravely ill, a battle over the inheritance breaks out within the family. To get what he wants, Sheng Tangzhou, the Sheng family’s
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I Secretly Got Married to My Mortal Enemy, and He Flirted Me into a Frenzy 瞒着娱乐圈闪婚死对头,被撩疯了
[All sweetness, no angst or misunderstandings; both leads speak their minds] [Both leads in showbiz + livestreamed dating show, flash marriage + secret marriage, sweet romance + mutually devoted happy ending] It’s an open secret in showbiz that Shen Yannan and Jian Li can’t stand each other. Their solo fanbases tear into each other, and the two stars themselves are so careful to avoid rumors that they never appear together at any event. The next time they appear together is at an awards ceremony
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Entwined in Roses 玫瑰缠诱
[Devoted only to each other + secret crush on the heroine + elite family + Marriage Before Love] Shen Tingsi was naturally aloof. People in his circle said it was all just an act, and that he was wild in private. Before marrying him, Ming Qingyan thought he was the kind of man who always had women around. After they married, she discovered that he went to work and then came straight home every day, and even let her know when he traveled for work. There was just one problem: he didn't like her.
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A Sweet Military Wife and Her Rugged Husband: Raising Kids with a Spiritual Spring 军嫂娇,老公糙,灵泉养娃来报道
[Triplets + spirit spring + marriage first, love later + building a fortune] Su Qianqian opened her eyes to find she had become a crude, foolish, fierce and sharp-tongued woman in the 1970s. She had three children to raise, but they were all afraid of her, and the whole production team looked down on her. Her husband, who had been missing for five years, suddenly sent word. The authorities arranged for her to go take care of him while he recovered from an injury, but the rugged man wanted a divo
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