Arranged Marriage, Then Love. The Male Lead Wasn't Secretly in Love With Her All Along. A Real Arranged-Marriage-to-Love Story. 先婚后爱，男主不是蓄谋已久暗恋成真，真先婚后爱
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- 51 Married First, Love Later: The Passionate Soldier Devotes Himself to Her Alone 先婚后爱，烈爱兵锋独宠她一人 [Top-Tier Wealthy Family + Both Leads Are Inexperienced + Marriage First, Love Later + Intense Push and Pull + Ruthless and Decisive] What Qin Huanhuan regrets most is giving herself to Xiao Zhan when she was left with no other choice. They spent one night together, each getting what they wanted. She thought they would never have anything to do with each other again, but fate brought them together once more. One wants money, the other craves beauty, and so the two become entangled again. Their r 12kReads8.1Score1.4k14d adds
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Three Days After Our Whirlwind Wedding, My Husband Woke Up Beneath a Collapsing Wall! 闪婚三天后，老公在危墙下醒了！
“Marriage first, love later,” “contract marriage,” “second chance at love,” “reunion after years apart,” “past and present lives,” “power couple.” To fulfill her elders' final wish, Su Aiqing agrees to Lu Chenzhou's proposal of a whirlwind marriage. “You help me fend off pressure to get married, and I'll help you renovate the Lu family mansion. After we marry, we each get what we need.” The contract marriage begins as a transaction, but their time together in the century-old mansion quietly chan
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- 53 The Mature Landlady 成熟的老板娘 For the sake of keeping the family fortune all to himself, Liang Dashan hatched a vicious scheme to frame his wife, Du Xue. Faced with her husband’s ruthless plotting, Du Xue fought back from the brink. She turned people’s motives to her advantage and used his own tactics against him, unraveling every conspiracy by playing along, and ultimately leaving the traitor with nothing but the clothes on his back! 31kReads7.9Score1.6k14d adds
- 54 Take It Easy, Village Miracle Doctor 乡村神医悠着点 Lin Xiaoqiang was beaten so badly in the city that he lost his wits. When he returned to the village, Sister-in-law Shuihua took care of him. Then the village bully, Liang Shan, beat him up. That beating snapped him back to his senses, and he even gained a special ability. From then on, his life took off. 3.5kReads7.3Score29214d adds
- 55 Crimson Lips, Blazing Passion 红唇烈焰 A handsome loser and a cold, aloof female boss. When these two rivals cross paths, they act out a romantic tale of love, revenge, and sweet satisfaction. Office intrigue, cutthroat business, and political scheming are all handled with ease. If you want a story full of twists and excitement, come read The Strongest Man in the City. 34.1kReads9.0Score2.7k14d adds
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A Gentle Seduction 软诱
The print edition of Rose Crown goes on sale August 10. Available on all platforms. [Married First, Love Later + Secret Crush + He Chases His Wife After Losing Her, But She Never Looks Back + Both Are Each Other’s First] She was the Xu family’s adopted daughter, and Zhou Yuetian’s little shadow. She had followed him everywhere since childhood, until she heard him say this at the age of twenty-four: “She’s just the Xu family’s adopted daughter. Why would I actually care about her? People like us
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- 57 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 1.9kReads—Score13514d adds
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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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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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After Accidentally Marrying a Tyrant CEO, My Combat Prowess Soars 错嫁霸总后，我武力值爆表了
Su Qianyao, 26, heiress to the Su family, heir to a martial arts school, and a designer who studied overseas. A marriage alliance leads her to accidentally walk down the aisle in the wrong wedding dress and marry into the Fu family. Fu Sicheng, 29, a cold-faced domineering CEO, a lovesick dad, forced into marriage. They’re at each other’s throats from the start. Their post-marriage agreement hides a catch, but she tears it up and makes him eat his words. When his sister provokes her, Su Qianyao
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- 61 Smitten and Surrendered: The Cold CEO Bows to His Wife 心悦诚服：冷总俯首称妻奴 [Story Synopsis] Su Wan is a clear-headed, independent jewelry designer. To save her seriously ill mother, she signs a one-year marriage contract with Gu Chenxi, a cold and formidable business tycoon. She keeps her boundaries and focuses on her career, but he gradually finds himself drawn to her. Gu Chenxi sets aside his pride, follows the rules of “proper husbandly conduct,” and awkwardly pursues his wife. When the contract expires, how will this marriage that began as a transaction end? A powe 33Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 A Marriage That Lasts Forever 地久婚长 Marriage first, love later / slow-burn, sweet romance Fu Qingshao's only condition for agreeing to an arranged marriage is that he wants no emotional entanglements with his future wife. In short, he hopes she won't love him, and that they can treat each other with mutual respect. Meng Yu, the youngest daughter of the Meng family, fits his ideal perfectly. She has just broken up with her ex-boyfriend, and there's still a tear stain at the corner of her eye when she's forced to go on a blind date. 147.7kReads9.3Score18.2k14d adds
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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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Marriage Before Love: The Refined and Gentle Mogul 先婚后爱，豪门大佬他温润如玉
[Marriage first, love later / both leads are inexperienced / sweet romance / traditional Chinese style / qipao-clad beauty and calligrapher + gentle, charming power player from the capital] Leng Keran is delicate and beautiful, slender and seemingly fragile, yet cool, proud, and virtuous. She carries an air of scholarship, with the scent of ink and paper clinging to her sleeves. She had hoped to live a quiet life without fighting for anything, but her fiancé of eight years, Lin Chunan, cheated o
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Flash Marriage, Intoxicating Love 闪婚浓瘾
[Modern romance + marriage before love + whirlwind wedding + love that grows over time + both devoted only to each other + doting husband + cherished by everyone + satisfying read + punishing scum with face-slapping] Shen Yan and Zhou Yanxi had been dating for three years. On Valentine's Day, the two planned to register their marriage, but just then, Shen Yan's younger sister, Shen Xiaoyu, called Zhou Yanxi to say she had a headache. He turned around and left Shen Yan at the marriage registry. H
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After the Movie Star Cheated on Me, the Tycoon Spoiled Me to the Core 被影帝劈腿后，财阀他枭宠入骨
[Powerful CEO | sweet redemption | Marriage Before Love | one-on-one | mutually devoted | he pursues her after a breakup] [Gentle little bunny vs. abstinent, calculating tycoon] The award-winning actor’s manager, envied by everyone, is actually a miserable girlfriend who got cheated on. The actor: “You’ll never find anyone better!” What a load of crap! Shu Huan turns around and marries into the top-tier Yue family. Dressed in a red gown, Shu Huan dazzles all of Kyoto. “I’m here to propose, and t
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Journey South in Search 南下追寻
[They meet at school + marriage first, love later + passionate newlyweds + both virgins + one-on-one romance] At sixteen, they were young and bright. At eighteen, they went their separate ways. At twenty-six, a marriage contract brought them together. Wen Li thought her journey was a solo one. She never imagined that one day her midsummer night’s dream from youth would bloom into a garden of flowers. ‘The heroine’s secret crush comes true; the hero gradually falls for her.’ / After years apart,
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The Husband I Scraped Together Turns Out to Be a Wealthy Heir 拼来的老公居然是豪门继承人
Outside the Civil Affairs Bureau, Mu Ningxi is stood up by her fiancé once again. A handsome man stops her. “I urgently need a wife. How about we get married to solve both our problems?” Mu Ningxi never expected that the husband she married in a fit of anger would turn out to be her new boss! Mr. Huo says he always keeps business and personal matters separate. At work, he doesn’t want their relationship exposed. Later, a male colleague makes a heartfelt confession to Mu Ningxi at a company banqu
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The Wolfish CEO’s Unrestrained Devotion to His Wife 狼性总裁，宠妻无节制
Aggressive seduction + Angsty indulgence + Both leads are each other’s only partners + Powerful CEO pursues his adorable wife + Devoted husband On her boyfriend’s birthday, she plans to give him her first time. But her best friend tricks her into the wrong room, and she ends up in the male lead’s bed. After one passionate night, he becomes addicted to her. When they meet again, she never expects him to be an important client at her company. She needs a job, and the man wants her beauty and her s
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- 70 Sweetheart, Take That! Don’t Mess with the Scheming Wife 甜蜜暴击：腹黑娇妻别惹火 In Nancheng, she’s notorious, and everyone avoids her like the plague. Everyone in the city knows that Wen Nuan is the person Fu Sihan, the eldest young master of the Fu family, hates most. No one else even comes close. To achieve her goal, she makes the most of her infamous reputation, pursuing him relentlessly at any cost. “President Fu, hug me!” When drunk: “President Fu, give me a kiss, hug me, and pick me up!” When trouble strikes: “Brother Sihan, take me home!” Fu Sihan can’t take it anymo 28Reads7.6Score—14d adds
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The Sweet, Alluring Military Wife and Her Devoted Rough-Hewn Soldier 军嫂娇，军嫂媚，糙汉军爷宠上天
[Rugged military officer + sweet, gentle beauty] (Fictional military marriage + marriage before love + daily life with the troops + stepmother and adorable kids + food) When Jiang Rou opens her eyes, she's become the fake heiress in a period novel. Not only is she a pitiful cannon-fodder supporting character, but the real heiress has knocked her unconscious and made her marry an older man in her place. Rumor has it that the man is disfigured and lame, with two burdens to care for, one big and on
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A Marriage Steeped in Desire 婚色沉沉
[Sweet romance, devoted to each other / Healing and refreshing / Slow-burn slice of life / Love comes naturally] Granny Lin hopes Lin Fanxing will find someone to belong with, while Grandpa Fu tells Fu Xingzhou to “start a family before building a career.” Lin Fanxing needs a marriage, and so does Fu Xingzhou, so Lin Fanxing proposes they get married. “Mr. Fu, want to get married?”
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After Going Blind, She Impulsively Married a Tycoon Worth Hundreds of Billions! 失明后，她和千亿总裁闪婚了！
The short drama adaptation, A Sincere Confession in Your Eyes, is now online. Come watch, dear readers! [Married First, Love Later] [Both Leads Are Inexperienced in Love] [Age Gap] [Sweet Romance] [Mutual Devotion] Mu Qianqian accidentally went blind while saving an old woman, then married the woman's grandson after just three days! Before her sight returned, Mu Qianqian worried every day that she'd married an ugly man with no car and no house. After she regained her vision, the man lifted her c
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The Spoiled Little Heiress Is Pampered by Her CEO Daddy 纨绔小祖宗被爹系总裁娇养了
[Marriage first, love later; a rebellious heiress who fights back × a doting CEO who worries about everything; one-on-one, both each other's first and only, age gap] Xiao Nongyi is notorious in high society for being a spoiled rich girl. She knows nothing about music, chess, calligraphy, or painting, but she's an expert at eating, drinking, and having fun. Whenever anyone in Huazhou's elite circles mentions her, they have to curse her as “Crazy Xiao.” After an accident, she spends one wild night
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After Our Flash Marriage, Mr. Bo Spoils His Wife to No End 闪婚后，薄总他宠妻无度
[Both leads are pure + marriage before love + sweet romance + devoted husband’s everyday life] [The second male lead chases his wife to the crematorium] A star in the sky is a tear he shed. She is the only person he holds dear. On the day of her blind date, Lin Qingli married a handsome stranger in a whirlwind wedding. With striking, chiseled features and an icy beauty, he looked just like the domineering CEO in a novel. She thought their marriage would settle into a quiet routine of mutual re
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Back from Northern Myanmar, I Marry a Beijing Tycoon 缅北归来，我嫁给京圈大佬
[Forced Marriage + Powerful Tycoon’s Relentless Pursuit + Sweet Age-Gap Romance] After her boyfriend betrays her, Li Shiqi is sold to northern Myanmar. In her darkest hour, she happens upon Mu Tingye, the capital’s most powerful business tycoon, and only then manages to escape. Having fled a living hell, she is instead forced into marriage by the aloof, celibate business magnate. At first, Mu Tingye only wants to keep her under his thumb. But before long, he falls head over heels and spoils her
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Rescued After Jumping into the Sea, I Married into a Trillion-Dollar Family 跳海被救代嫁给千亿财阀
Wealthy CEO x Scheming Heir x Sweet Before Angst x Contract Marriage x Marriage Before Love x Witty and Funny Ru Meng's life was simple and happy, until her mother's best friend betrayed them. Overnight, she was saddled with enormous loan-shark debts, and her family was destroyed. Desperate to repay the debt, she was driven into a corner. While fleeing, she fell into the sea, only to be rescued by a wealthy young master. He discovered that she looked exactly like the sister who had run away from
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I Only Loved You After We Got Married 结婚以后才爱你
Lin Yitang, the sole heir to the Lin Group in the capital and its president. He had always treated Li Xier, his childhood betrothed, like a little sister. Li Xier, the eldest daughter of the prestigious Li family in the capital. She was promised to Lin Yitang from the moment she was born. Lin Yitang was dazzling, and Li Xier had loved him deeply since childhood. She was willing to do anything for him. Who could have known that the married life she'd waited so long for would leave her utterly hea
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From the Start: Ms. Ruan Offers a Fortune for a Baby 开局：阮总重金求子
After divorcing the president of the Ling Group, Ruan Rong is left with a huge fortune and offers a large sum of money for a sperm donor. The male model her assistant finds is the cream of the crop. She never imagined he would be her ex-husband's friend, Mu Jingchen. Wait, isn't President Mu known for never getting close to women? What kind of love-hate relationship will unfold between him and Ruan Rong? But then her ex-husband, Ling Ye, suddenly confesses his love. What will Ruan Rong decide to
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The Domineering CEO Falls for Me 霸道总裁恋上我
Lin Xue joins Chen Yufeng’s company as a designer, and her beauty and talent instantly light up his world. Her delicate features, bright eyes, and distinctive charm make Chen Yufeng’s heart race, and from then on, he falls deeply in love with her, unable to stop his feelings from growing. So he chooses to watch over her in silence. Meanwhile, in her own emotional world, Lin Xue remains devoted to her high school sweetheart, Li Zhiheng, completely unaware of Chen Yufeng’s deep and secret love. As
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- 81 The Overbearing CEO Secretly Fell in Love with Me 霸道总裁偷偷爱上我 Lin Yufeng is a stern, domineering CEO with striking good looks. He deeply resents the marriage his parents arranged for him when he was young, and repeatedly refuses to meet the girl he is betrothed to. Li Xinrui, meanwhile, is a renowned British designer, blessed with both talent and beauty. By a twist of fate, the two meet, and Lin Yufeng is captivated by her looks and talent, launching an all-out pursuit. To his surprise, he eventually discovers that she is the very woman whose arranged marr 78Reads—Score414d adds
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On Our Blind Date, the Heir to a Wealthy Family Took Me to Register Our Marriage 相亲当天，豪门继承人拉着我领证
[Sweet romance + Marriage Before Love + male lead pretends to be a pig to eat the tiger] On the day of her blind date, Hai Tong impulsively married a stranger. She thought married life would be ordinary and built on mutual respect. Instead, her new husband turned out to be a clingy human piece of glue. What surprised her most was that whenever she ran into trouble, he would step in and resolve everything with ease. Whenever she asked about it, he always said he was just lucky, until one day she
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The Cold, Possessive CEO Spoils Me, Holding Me Close and Coaxing Me Every Night 禁欲总裁凶又宠，夜夜对我揽腰哄
(Marriage first, love later; both leads are each other's first; seven-year age gap; a slow-blooming, sweet romance) Lu Siyi has a naturally sweet, well-behaved face. Only those close to her know she's a little fox, rebellious to the core. The year she graduates, she is to enter a marriage alliance with Fu Shangyan, a man famous throughout the city. Cold and restrained, decisive and ruthless, he commands everyone's respect and awe. Lu Siyi tucks away her fox tail. Hoping to get some benefits, she
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It Was Supposed to Be a Contract Marriage, So Why Did You Fall for Me? 说好的契约婚姻，为何你又动心
[Resilient, Pure-Hearted College Student VS Dark, Ruthless Underworld Heir] [Ensemble Cast + Eight-Year Age Gap + Fatherly Male Lead + Love Grows Over Time + Both Pure + Alpha Male Lead + Sizzling Chemistry + Flirtatious and Devoted Husband + Revenge + Business Warfare] Chen Jiayi, a college student, has just graduated and found a new romance. Just as her brand-new life is about to begin, she returns from her graduation trip and learns that, as her parents wish, she is to marry a man eight years
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A Catastrophic Start: I’m Forced to Marry a Lame, Mad King 天崩开局，我被迫嫁给瘸腿癫王
[One-on-one, both with no past relationships: the woman transmigrates into a book, pretending to be a vixen but really just a laid-back slacker; the man is reborn, pretending to be a madman but secretly a true romantic. They spar and fall in love, flirt to the extreme, enjoy endless sweet indulgence, and clash over court politics.] No bitter drama, just sweet, over-the-top romance. Their clashes are mostly battles of wits. Su Xu accidentally transmigrates into a book and becomes a cannon-fodder
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