Married First, Fall in Love Later, With a Little Angst 先婚后爱，微虐
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Where Thorns Meet Warmth 荆棘遇暖
“Since you're so eager to make this marriage official...” He began fulfilling his duties as a husband... Again and again, they lost control, sinking into pleasure until neither could stop. She endured in silence and bravely stood by him, while love spread through both their hearts… Through all the thorns, they would eventually find warmth. He declared firmly, “She is my wife. There will never be anyone else.”
956Reads—Score117Shelves
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You Watch Her Perform, I’ll Announce Our Divorce 你看她表演，我公告离婚
Tomatoes are the most satisfying! The hero and second male lead get divorced The male lead watches the green tea put on a show, while the heroine goes straight to the newspapers and announces their divorce! A powerful financial magnate * a young lady whose family has fallen on hard times Married first, love later * both leads are sexually inexperienced Every male character in the story is a virgin, whether he's the second or third male lead... Xu Qing'an married Shen Yuanyuan simply because he t
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The Gray Lotus 灰莲花
[A textbook case of realist business warfare + a deeply romantic, top-tier intellectual romance] The world has gone mad. A top-tier rich, handsome young heir is forced to compete with his wealthy wife for a lover... “If she likes me and I like her too, then we’ll each have to prove ourselves.” The male lead is loaded with resources and comes with every advantage, while the female lead has brains and beauty and rises from humble beginnings. A textbook case of realist business warfare, arranged fa
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President Fu, Your Wife Has Signed the Divorce Agreement 傅总，夫人已签离婚协议
[Heartbreakingly tragic + intensely satisfying + stand-in + contract marriage + groveling pursuit of his wife] Powerful CEO of a wealthy family × coldhearted designer who has shut her heart away After three years of marriage, Lin Xi is Fu Hanzhou's most dutiful ornament and his beloved's personal blood bank. On the night she miscarries, he coldly signs the papers. “You're not worthy of bearing my child.” The day her heart dies, she leaves a blood-written note saying, “May we never meet again,”
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Kneel and Kiss the Iris 跪吻鸢尾
Tu Mingyuan was made to marry the ruthless CEO of the Li family in her sister's place. He spent every night indulging himself with her, and she thought he loved her. But that was only what she believed. When he had to choose between two people, she was the one he abandoned. Pregnant, she fell into the sea and vanished without a trace. At last, the ruthless CEO went mad. “Drain every drop of seawater if you have to, but find her! I want her alive if she's alive, and her body if she's dead!” Three
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My Flash-Marriage Husband Is Actually a Trillionaire CEO 闪婚老公，竟是千亿总裁
[Marriage First, Love Later + The Husband Chases His Wife to Win Her Back + Sweet Romance + Both Pure in Love + Age Gap + The Powerful One Bows His Head] Su Shiqi works at a hospital and often hears her colleagues gossip about Gu Tingye. They say that despite his young age, he already controls a business empire. He's the well-known head of one of Jiangcheng's wealthiest families, the dream man countless socialites pursue, and, at just thirty, he holds the reins of half the city's economy. He's
3.6kReads—Score159Shelves
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On My Wedding Night, I Revived a Comatose Tycoon 新婚夜，我救活了植物人大佬
[Marriage first, love later + sweet pet + age difference + underbelly] Jiang Yan grew up in a family of traditional Chinese medicine. She studied medicine with her grandparents, who were old traditional Chinese medicine doctors, since she was a child, and gained superb acupuncture skills. However, due to a twist of fate, her father's company was in dire straits. In order to save the company, she was forced to marry Lu Jingming, a business genius who became a vegetative state due to a car acciden
1.9kReads6.8Score151Shelves
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The Comatose Tycoon Falls in Love with Me 植物人大佬，爱上我
[Marriage first, love later + devoted to one another + sweet romance] An Ran is a highly skilled neurosurgeon who should have been making a name for herself saving lives. Instead, her greedy stepmother and father force her into the dark depths of fate. Tempted by money, they push her into what seems like an endless, loveless marriage, marrying her off to Mu Tingchen, a legendary business tycoon left in a vegetative state after a car accident. Once, Mu Tingchen ruled the business world with an ir
788Reads6.3Score—Shelves
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The Capital’s Power Player, His Wife’s One and Only 京圈大佬，独宠娇妻
[Marriage first, deep love later + sweet romance + scheming male lead + regretful groveling + age gap] Su Tong never imagined her own father could be so blinded by greed that he’d use her as a bargaining chip and heartlessly send her to the bed of Gu Tingshen, a powerful figure in the capital’s elite circles. Gu Tingshen was notorious among the capital’s elite for being abstinent and calculating, intensely controlling, cold, domineering, and sharp-tongued. Everyone treated him with awe and fear.
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On Our Wedding Night, My Comatose Husband Put His Arm Around My Waist 新婚夜，植物人老公搂住我的腰
[Marriage First, Love Later + Sweet Romance + Age Gap + Husband Chasing His Wife + Both Chaste] Tong Yao is forced to take her twin sister’s place and marry Gu Jingchen, a former business tycoon who is now in a vegetative state. The whole city pities her, believing she will spend her life as a wife in name only. But on their wedding night, the sleeping man suddenly wraps an arm around her waist. The once decisive king of the business world wakes up and takes back his immense power. Everyone wait
3.3kReads6.6Score301Shelves
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I Woke Up My Husband from His Vegetative State 我让植物人老公苏醒
[Love after marriage + age gap + groveling pursuit + sweet romance + powerful man lowering his head] Su Tong is the Su family’s adopted daughter. Clever from a young age, she excelled in school and graduated from Harvard, becoming an outstanding neurosurgeon. The Su family’s biological daughter, Su Shishi, refuses to honor the betrothal arranged for her when she was young and marry Huo Yunzhou, a business magnate from Haicheng who has been in a vegetative state since a car accident. So her adop
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I Restored the Capital’s Tycoon’s Sight, and He Spoils Me Rotten 我让京圈大佬复明，他把我狠狠宠
[Substitute marriage, love after marriage, ex-husband’s redemption, sweet romance, both leads are virgins] Huo Jingchen had a fiery temper, devastating looks, and a decisive, domineering way of doing things. He was arrogant and unruly, with a strong streak of tsundere pride. He was recognized throughout the business world as a genius, famous for his ruthlessness and cunning. His decisive, ruthless methods earned him the nickname “Living Yama,” and made his business rivals tremble at the mere men
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On Our Wedding Night, I Woke My Husband from His Coma 新婚夜，我让植物人老公苏醒了
[Marriage before love + winning her back after breaking her heart + age gap + sweet romance + scheming male lead] Her older sister was suffering from kidney failure and urgently needed money for a transplant. Jiang Yawei swallowed her pride and went home to beg her scumbag father to pay for the surgery, only to catch her boyfriend of three years kissing Jiang Feifei, her half-sister. Her father and stepmother seized the chance to hold her sister’s life-saving money over her head, forcing her to
436Reads—Score111Shelves
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The Abstinent Tycoon Is Addicted to Me 禁欲大佬对我上瘾
[1v1 sweet romance + both leads are devoted to each other + powerful man lowers his head] After getting drunk, Sheng Yanxi accidentally wandered into the presidential suite of Ling Jingchen, the fearsome “tyrant” of Hancheng. After one reckless night, she woke up, saw the outline of the man beside her, and was scared out of her wits. It was Ling Jingchen! The cold-faced tyrant whose slightest stomp could make all of Hancheng tremble! While he was still asleep, she fled in a panic. Ling Jingchen
1.6kReads—Score100Shelves
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Sinking Into Love Past the Deadline 逾期沉溺
Tang Yiming and Sun Jia first met three years ago, when they signed a prenuptial agreement. She thought their marriage was nothing more than a deal that suited them both. But he loved her and was afraid to reveal his true feelings, so he hid them behind a facade of absurdity. She didn't love him, but was grateful that he'd helped her when she was down. Then she happened to find him keeping silent vigil by her grandmother's sickbed. She accidentally caught him tearing up the suggestive invitation
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The Feudal Tycoon Goes Wild Across the City After His Divorce 封建大佬离婚后，发疯全城
Powerful older man + poor, frail, delicate beauty + winning his wife back + both leads are sexually inexperienced Jiang Qingwu was born with a sensitive constitution. After marrying Gu Yunzhou, she was docile and well-behaved, but never dared to get close to him. The mighty military, political, and business tycoon had married a young wife, yet they had never shared a moment of intimacy. At last, after reaching the end of his patience, Gu Yunzhou arranged for his young wife to live alone in anoth
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The Feisty Little Bride Who Loved Fighting Became a Diplomat 那个爱打架的小媳妇当外交官了
(Transmigration + Spatial Dimension + Sweet Romance + Marriage First, Love Later + Raising Kids + Everyday Family Life) Su Xieqiu grew up with a father who didn't care for her and a mother who didn't love her. Her grandparents, who raised her, passed away early, too. After working hard to buy a home in a big city, she wakes up one day to find herself transmigrated to the planned-economy era of the 1970s. The original owner was an educated youth sent to the countryside. She was timid and a little
42.9kReads9.2Score5kShelves
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A Marriage Wave in Jinghai 京海婚潮
(The rating has only just opened, so it may rise later.) Li, heiress to Xiaonan Airlines, and Zhan Nanpei, heir to Yunting Airlines, entered a prestigious family marriage alliance, only for it to end in regret. He had his “white moonlight,” and she had a childhood sweetheart she’d loved for years. In a marriage alliance between two equally powerful families, neither could be the first to back down. * Shortly after the divorce Someone asked him, “You really got divorced just like that? Don’t you
13.9kReads7.8Score1.2kShelves
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An Obsession Born of Love 执念为爱
A Love That Won't Let Go
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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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The Capitalist Heiress and the Mute's Heartbreaking Romance in the 1970s 资本家大小姐和小哑巴的七零虐恋
[Period setting + BE + a widowed wife's memoir + a cool, powerful heiress from a capitalist family + a lovesick, mute country boy + sweet at first, slightly angsty later] [Also known as: When the Years Were Kind] Qu Bailu had been a pampered heiress for twenty years. Then disaster struck, and she had no choice but to go to the countryside as an educated youth. Perhaps she'd used up all her luck in those first twenty years, because one misfortune followed another. She could endure the cold stares
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Mr. Zhen’s Marriage-First, Love-Later: Twice the Happiness 甄总先婚后爱快乐加倍
[A different take on marriage first, love later + comedy + bickering + constant sparks + age gap + healing] Zhen Xinwei initially misunderstands Qian Haohao. Later, his parents conspire to set them up, and he marries her. Zhen Xinwei says, “I never fake my marriage.” Qian Haohao replies, “What a coincidence. I never take marriage seriously.” Qian Haohao doesn’t believe in love, yet by a twist of fate, she ends up marrying for the second time. After the wedding, she tells Zhen Xinwei, “I’m not af
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The Contract Wife, The Ice-Cold CEO Falls Hard 替嫁契约妻，高冷禁欲总裁沦陷
Forced by her adoptive parents, Xia Yutong takes the place of her arrogant, overbearing stepsister and marries Lu Yunfei, a notorious playboy caught up in one scandal after another. But the wedding takes a shocking turn. The man who comes to escort her home is not the playboy Lu Yunfei, but Lu Yanci, the feared devil of the business world. He runs the vast Lu business empire, wields enormous power, and is ruthless in his methods. He is aloof, chaste, and indifferent to women. On their wedding ni
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The Alpha CEO's Contract Wife 狼性总裁的契约妻
Lin Qianqian is a pure-hearted, resilient young woman whose journey in love begins with a secret crush, but is destined to lead to a marriage strewn with thorns. Zhou Chumu, a cold, ruthless, scheming man, binds her to his side with a contract. After five years of quietly watching over him, she gets a loveless marriage in return, becoming the perfect stand-in he uses to deal with pressure from his family elders. But as their hearts gradually draw closer through all their mutual torment, just whe
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