Looking for a Bittersweet Marriage-First, Love-Later Novel 求先婚后爱的酸涩文
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The Son-in-Law: Earning My Keep with the Toughest Skills 赘婿，用最硬的本事吃最软的饭
The work was given the wrong tag: it should be “live-in son-in-law,” not “God of War Live-In Son-in-Law.” This is not a wish-fulfillment story, and the pace is relatively slow, so it may not suit readers who are impatient. To reiterate, this is not a story about a cuckold. It is not a story about a cuckold. This is a coming-of-age story: the male lead grows in his career and abilities, while the female lead grows in character. The focus is on dialogue between the characters and their distinct pe
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The Lu Family's Castoff Daughter Turns Around and Marries an Abstinent Tycoon 陆家弃女，转身嫁禁欲大佬
[Scheming, Chaste Powerhouse vs. Sweet, Down-on-Her-Luck Heiress] [Ten-Year Age Gap + Aloof Older Man Finally Bows His Head + Marriage Before Love + Wealthy Family Intrigue + Guiding Lover + Fated Romance] Betrayed by her family and stripped of her inheritance, how will she turn the tables and win over the cold-hearted tycoon along the way? On the day Lu Xiran “died” in Switzerland, the whole internet sympathized with her father’s grief over losing his daughter. No one knew she had followed a my
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Turning My Fake-Marriage Husband Straight 掰直形婚老公
A law-focused, trope-subverting story A sweet, scatterbrained divorce lawyer versus a shrewd, restrained business tycoon Both leads are each other’s first and only; no idealized first love, no ex-boyfriends Marriage first, love later / grounded realism / simmering tension / falling in love with clear eyes No age gap; they’re the same age Wang Mengting: a name that clearly doesn’t belong to the heroine of a romance novel. A walking machine for snarky commentary. Twenty-eight by East Asian reckoni
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She Loved Him in Secret for Seven Years, and Now the Powerful Man of Beijing's Elite Circle Is Chasing His Wife After Marriage 她暗恋七年，京圈大佬婚后狂追妻
[Prima Ballerina Princess ♥ Powerful Fatherly Tycoon] [Devoted to Each Other ♥ Secret Crush Comes True + Marriage Before Love ♥ Icy, Aloof Beauty + Bright Little Sunshine] Shi Yimian is the treasured daughter of a discreet, prestigious family. With bright eyes, delicate features, a slender waist, and porcelain skin, she blends innocence and allure to perfection. Suitors pursue her one after another, only to be turned away by an arranged marriage made when she was young. They all assume the engag
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- 55 CEO Zhou, Your Wife's Got You Wrapped Around Her Finger: Darling, Don't Leave Me! 周总老婆脑，夫人你不要离开我啊 Xu Wenyi had kept a secret in her heart for a long, long time: she liked Zhou Yanye, the proud and reckless boy who burned as brightly as a flame. She had loved him from high school through college and planned to bury the secret forever. She never expected Zhou Yanye to confess to her. “Xu Wenyi, I like you. Will you be my girlfriend?” “Yes.” Her secret crush had come true, and Xu Wenyi gave Zhou Yanye all the love she had. “I don't know how to love someone, but I'll try my best to learn how to 4.1kReads8.0Score228Shelves
- 56 A Sweet Beijing Wedding 京婚很甜 A beautiful radio host with a sweet voice vs. a cold, calculating CEO who keeps his desires in check #Marriage first, love later + blind dates + sweet romance + age gap + a secret crush coming true# It takes Ruan Yunsheng just two weeks from meeting her future husband to getting her marriage license. As far as Ruan Yunsheng is concerned, a marriage without a foundation of love probably won't last. But why is her new husband so clingy? He gets her water when she's thirsty and feeds her when she's 506Reads7.3Score104Shelves
- 57 My Darling! The Dominant Gu Dotes on His Sweetheart Day and Night 心肝宠！霸道顾少日撩夜哄小乖宝 [Both leads are devoted to each other + married first, in love later + sweet romance + mutual devotion] Everyone in their circle knows that the woman Gu Shao cherished most jumped into the sea and died. From then on, the name Shen Wei became forbidden to Gu Zhouhuai. One day, the man brought home a woman with a slender waist and long legs, her delicate, gentle demeanor as clean and soft as jasmine. Unfortunately She was also mute. The rich young ladies waited with snacks, eager to see the mute g 8.9kReads8.8Score1.5kShelves
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I Was Once Your Beloved Minister 臣本卿卿
(Dual POV) [Angst fueled by a lack of information] Gu Qingyan, the third princess of Chu, has two things she cannot let go of in this life: One is that she never got the chance to bring a retainer named Meng Jie into her household. The other is that she never personally killed Qin Yi, the prince of Yan who destroyed her kingdom. She doesn't know that these two men are one and the same. The day the city fell, he bent down and said, “Don't be afraid. I'll keep you safe.” Gu Qingyan thought he was
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- 59 After Becoming the Villainess, I Set My Sights on the Big Shot 穿成恶毒女配后，缠上大佬的高枝 [Transmigrate into a book + devoted couple + sweet romance] A fussy little schemer who only wants to survive × a cold-faced, abstinent, and calculating big shot Song Mo transmigrates into a sweet romance novel as the vicious supporting actress. She is the real daughter who was lost as a child. In her previous life, she was stupid enough to get herself killed. She lost her life fighting the fake heiress for affection. Now she has only one principle: stay away from the male lead, cherish her life, 485Reads—Score—Shelves
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The King of Chu and His Wife's Sweet Daily Life 楚王夫妇互宠日常
A cool, aloof yet pure-hearted young man x a sweet and clever girl [Marriage First, Love Later + Devoted Couple + Both Pure, 1v1] Su Yujing, a young lady of a marquis's household forced to live under someone else's roof, dreams of her future self, taken as a concubine by the dissolute and tyrannical Prince Wei and left to die in misery at a side residence! After getting a full preview of her future, Su Yu trembles with fear and turns her attention to Prince Wei's younger brother, who is even you
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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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- 62 Love That Came Too Late! 迟来深情！ Six years ago, on their wedding day, Mo Wen pushed his bride away with his own hands. When Shen Qi asked why, he simply said, "The wedding is off," then vanished from her world for good. Back then, Shen Qi had no idea that Mo Wen's grandfather had been poisoned to death at the wedding banquet, and that the culprits were his own maternal uncle and aunt. To avenge his grandfather and keep her from being dragged into the deadly plot, he chose the cruelest way: making her hate him. - Six year 190Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 Stealing a Kiss in the Moonlight 偷吻风月 [Both leads are inexperienced + long-planned scheme + marriage before love + sweet, flirtatious provocation + revenge] [Sweet-looking but secretly calculating femme fatale VS seemingly proper, refined scoundrel] After three years of a marriage of convenience, Shen Yansheng and Yu Jin part on good terms, having treated each other with courtesy. He simply couldn’t muster any interest in a beauty as dull as a block of wood. Then he ran into her at a bar. The Yu Jin he remembered as utterly unremark 13.3kReads9.4Score1.6kShelves
- 64 The White Moonlight Returns Home Pregnant, and the Whole City Erupts 白月光怀孕后回国，全城沸腾了 [Marriage first, love later; both leads are virgins; irresistible heroine; pregnancy and childbirth; one-on-one romance; sweet devotion] [A young lady occasionally controlled by the plot vs. a rebellious, cocky, bad-boy movie star] Entertainment industry's top-tier star Feng Jingche developed a strange illness and began vomiting uncontrollably. The doctors were at a loss. When science failed, he turned to the supernatural. A fortune-teller told him that marrying the Yu family's daughter would cu 16.9kReads9.0Score1.4kShelves
- 65 Marriage Before Love: Mr. CEO, Could You Love Me? 先婚后爱：总裁爱我行不行 Three years ago, Shen Yi was forced to marry Su Anli. Three years later, with a month left until their agreed-upon divorce date, Su Anli became pregnant... She knew Shen Yi despised her, but despite all her efforts, she couldn't keep it from him. When Shen Yi heard, his expression turned strange. "You're pregnant? That's impossible!" With tears in her eyes, Su Anli thought, So he hates me even more now! Shen Yi thought, I feel like I've been cheated on... The doctor leisurely sipped his tea. "I' 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 Love After Marriage: The Contract Couple 合约夫妻的先婚后爱 [Business genius CEO × reserved antique restorer] They seem like the two least likely people to end up together, but an accident brings them together. At first, she needs a legitimate place in his life. He needs someone to marry. Their impulsive agreement turns out to be a perfect match. “Jiang Jinghuai, if that accident had never happened, would you still have married me?” “I think I would have.” “Why?” “Because I'm the only one who truly understands you.”… 41Reads—Score—Shelves
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A Marriage in the Capital, Still Strangers 京婚不熟
A true marriage-first, love-later story / Marriage between wealthy families / Five-year age gap / The powerful one learns to lower his head Clear-headed and gentle heroine vs. stern, fatherly hero When her older sister runs away from her wedding, Jiang Ni obeys her father’s arrangements and marries her would-be brother-in-law. Her new husband is the head of the top-tier Zhou family in Beijing. He’s said to be a workaholic with no worldly desires, cold and stern. He leaves on a business trip on t
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After Marrying in My Brother’s Place, My Cold-Faced Uncle-in-Law Loses Control Again 替兄代娶后，冷面权臣小叔又失控了
After Taking His Brother’s Place as the Groom, His Cold-Blooded, Powerful Uncle Loses Control Again
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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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The Heaven-Ordained Fortune Teller 天命神算
When I was thirteen, I fell gravely ill. My fever wouldn't break, and no matter how many famous doctors I saw, none could cure me. My grandfather healed me, but he died mysteriously five years later. Only then did I learn that he had incurred a karmic debt on my behalf. So I inherited his legacy and embarked on the path of a feng shui master.
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- 71 My Irresistible Boss Lady 我的心动老板娘 Talk money with the poor, and feelings with the rich! I refused to believe it, and got hurt from head to toe! It wasn't until the boss's wife appeared that I realized I had fallen into a whirlpool of human nature. My name is Yu Nan. My story begins now! 6.6kReads9.0Score853Shelves
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Meeting Summer 见夏天
Xia Linxi x Tang Yu Xia Linxi is a sophomore with excellent grades and impeccable conduct. Tang Yu is a carefree bar singer. They’re worlds apart, with nothing in common. No one could have imagined that one day the two of them would end up together. In a dark alley, Xia Linxi saw Tang Yu locked in an intimate embrace with a strange woman, but she simply left in silence. She believed the man before her was nothing like the womanizing facade he showed the world. She saw right through him at a glan
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- 73 The Underworld Detective 阴间神探 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 73.7kReads9.4Score8.8kShelves
- 74 The Yin-Yang Shop's Grim Reaper 阴阳店之鬼差 "There is a shop tucked away on a street corner. It has no name, and every nightfall, all sorts of people can be seen coming and going. A tycoon worth hundreds of millions, a madman begging on the street, a gambler with one arm... Here, you can see human nature stripped bare. A wife pawned for money, a zombie who went into hiding in the mountains for love, a ghost imprisoned by the living... The human heart is endlessly varied, and the world is full of every kind of life. Nothing is impossible. 471Reads9.2Score105Shelves
- 75 Mr. Ji, Stop Hurting Me. Miss Shu Is Already Married 季总别虐了，舒小姐已嫁人 As Ji Sihan’s secret lover, Shu Wan stayed by his side for five years. She thought that if she was obedient and sweet, she could warm his heart. But she never expected to be abandoned in the end. Shu Wan had always been gentle. She neither argued nor made a scene, and didn’t even ask him for a penny. She simply walked out of his world. But when she was about to marry someone else, he suddenly pinned her against the wall and kissed her like a madman. Shu Wan couldn’t quite figure out what Mr. Ji 27.4kReads9.2Score3.1kShelves
- 76 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 173.9kReads9.5Score6.7kShelves
- 77 After the Divorce, My Ex-Husband Keeps Trying to Win Me Back 离婚后前夫总是想追我 For three years of marriage, Yu En dutifully fulfilled her obligations as Fu Tingyuan’s wife, from the bedroom to everything beyond it. She naively thought her tenderness would melt Fu Tingyuan’s heart. Only later did she realize that even if she melted every iceberg in Antarctica, she still couldn’t thaw his heart. Disillusioned, she chose to end their marriage. After three years of marriage, Fu Tingyuan summed up his wife Yu En in two words: unremarkable and dull. Yet this very Yu En threw the 2kReads9.0Score1.5kShelves
- 78 Reborn: Back to 1983 to Become a Tycoon 重生：回到1983当富翁 (The print edition is now available on JD.com! The text has been carefully revised and is even more exciting. There are plenty of discounts right now, so if you're interested, go grab a copy!) Zhou Yufeng, a corporate CEO, unexpectedly returns to 1983, an era of planned economies and feeling one's way across the river by touching the stones. With his lovely wife wanting a divorce and his younger brother and sister struggling to get by, watch as he turns the business world upside down and changes 132.4kReads9.3Score16.2kShelves
- 79 Spoiled Little Wife 蜜宠小萌妻 With nowhere else to turn, she reluctantly signed an agreement and gave birth to twins... Then she secretly hid one of them... Years later, by a strange twist of fate, she came across a boy who looked exactly like her son. And the boy's father turned out to be an immensely powerful man, wealthy enough to rival a nation! 408Reads8.7Score572Shelves
- 80 Chickens and Ducks in One Cage! Dr. Sheng's Nine-to-Five Love 鸡鸭同笼！晟医生的爱朝九晚五 After a long-planned family banquet, Chaoyan’s world comes crashing down! Her own parents actually sent her straight into the bed of her sworn enemy, and even had their marriage registered on her behalf! She was determined to tear up the courtroom and become a champion of justice, a true “legal golden hen.” But instead, she ran into a doctor as green as Biluochun tea, a “white-cut duck” named Sheng Shiyan! - When they were children, he stomped on her beloved pet and summer vacation insect sp —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 The Young Master Lu's Image Has Fallen Apart! 陆少人设崩了！ Two formidable leads | Marriage first, love later | A playboy turns over a new leaf | An ice queen melts / Wealthy-family power struggles + suspense + plenty of sweetness | Intense push and pull! _ The best love makes us better people! From strangers to soulmates, seven whole years | Grown-up love is a straightforward game of wits! - It began with desire and ended with two souls entwined. “Lu Jingchen, we’re just getting what we want from each other.” “Song Wanning, I want more than three m 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 President Fu, Please Sign the Marriage Contract 傅总契约婚姻请签收 A wealthy-family rivalry: Business marriage × power couple showdown × childhood sweethearts Fu Qingchen, a ruthless business predator, enters a marriage of convenience for profit. Sang Ye, a design prodigy and heiress, bows to her family's wishes. Drugged on their wedding night, they wake up and tacitly pretend to have amnesia, yet spend every night trying to outdo each other... - He buys her company; she charms his rival. He declares his ownership of her in public; she turns around and provo 17Reads—Score—Shelves
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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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After I Transmigrate Into a Book, I Flirt Recklessly with the Obsessive Villain 穿书后在偏执反派的心尖肆意撩火
[Sweet romance, playful flirting, and pure feel-good indulgence!] Jiang Chuyi, a sweet-voiced, soft-hearted top-tier star, transmigrates into a book. When she wakes up, she has to face a divorce showdown with the powerful villain, and the prospect of being tortured to death! To stay alive, she pulls out all the stops to fan the flames in his heart. The man, once obsessive and violent, pins her in his arms and murmurs in a voice that makes her melt, “Baby, if you’re going to tease me, you have to
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- 85 A Blissful Marriage: Please Spare Me, My Possessive Boss 盛世婚宠：偏执大佬请饶命 [Sweet romance + Devoted marriage + Redemption, an obsessive, violent male lead VS a sharp-tongued, food-loving heroine] They say Ning Dai, head of the Ning family, is bloodthirsty and utterly brutal. They also say he’s gravely ill and won’t live much longer. People have seen him cold-blooded, violent, and menacing. But only Tang Qianluo has seen his vulnerable side! … “I don’t want to let go! I can’t let go! I won’t let go!” “Stay by my side or go to hell. You choose.” “Please, love me!” He’s 6kReads9.3Score594Shelves
- 86 Deadly Sweet Temptation: The Big Shot’s Good Girl Is a Master Flirt 致命甜诱，大佬的乖乖甜妻太能撩 “Jian Yi, I want to marry you! In her previous life, she misjudged his heart and spurned his deep love. Now that she has returned, she is determined to cling to him, flirt with him, and pamper him! All her love is for him alone. So “Honey, I want a kiss.” “Honey, my leg hurts so much.” “Honey, how am I being naughty?” After their wedding night, Xia Shuning tears down scumbags and levels up, leaving countless people face-slapped. At the same time, she pulls out all the stops to tease and tempt hi 369Reads9.2Score101Shelves
- 87 After Losing Her Memory, Her Ex's Uncle Lures Her Into Ruin 失忆后，前任小叔诱她沉沦 After spending five years fawning over a scumbag, Li Sui lost her memory in a car accident. Her scumbag fiancé held her green-tea younger sister in his arms and pointed at the man on the television. “That's your boyfriend. Go after him.” Li Sui obediently did as she was told and went after him. The man on television was Huo Yanzhou, the unattainable darling of their social circle. Two years earlier, he had lost the use of both legs because of Li Sui. Everyone waited to see her make a fool of her 2.7kReads8.2Score921Shelves
- 88 A Middle-Aged CEO's Forced Love: Nanny, Don't Run Away! 中年霸总强制爱，女保姆你别逃！ [Forced love + seemingly innocent with a dark side + drama queen + revenge] Thirty-four-year-old Wang Yun and her daughter have only each other. But when her daughter is bullied at school by the heiress of a wealthy family, she ultimately loses her life. After learning the heiress’s identity, Wang Yun understands the gulf between them. It would be nearly impossible to get revenge on her own. Then she discovers that the girl has a single father, and a wicked idea comes to her. The girl made her l 5.7kReads9.2Score716Shelves
- 89 A Misdiagnosis at the Men's Clinic, and I Ended Up Marrying the Young Master of the Beijing Elite 男科误诊，我竟嫁给了京圈太子爷 The short drama Xu Xu is now streaming [Marriage first, love later + a husband’s long road to winning his wife back + sweet romance + both leads’ first love + age gap + contrasting personalities] [Scheming, cold-hearted big bad wolf vs. charming, soft, adorable little white rabbit] At a certain hospital, in the urology department, a serious medical misdiagnosis occurred. A man’s gritted, furious growl rang out from the consultation room. “Woman, are you asking to die?” Behind her mask, the yo 13.8kReads9.0Score2.1kShelves
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Jing Yu Xun Jin 惊予浔槿
[Marriage first, love later | Older man | Sweet romance | 1v1, both leads are each other's only partner | Slow burn] [The rating just came out, but it'll go up later] In Beijing's elite circles, everyone said the eldest daughter of the Luo family was cold and indifferent. Luo Jin thought so too, and figured she was perfectly suited to being a pawn in a marriage alliance. So when the “smiling King of Hell” proposed to her in front of everyone at a banquet, she asked only six words: “When are we r
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The Princess Consort Forgets Me Every Day, But So What? 王妃日日忘了我，但那又怎样
[No System, no transmigration + devoted couple + alternate world + winning her back] Ling Yiyi loses her memory every day, leaving her without family or friends. Qi Siy i is caught in the treacherous imperial court, an unpopular prince left on the fringes. Two people estranged from the world are bound together by an imperial marriage decree steeped in manipulation and humiliation. On their wedding night, he is consumed by resentment and revulsion at a marriage forced upon him, while she can thin
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My Flash-Marriage Husband Is Actually a Trillionaire CEO 闪婚老公，竟是千亿总裁
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- 93 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 Romance] [Age Gap] [Scheming Male Lead] Jiang Yan grew up in a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners. From childhood, she studied medicine under her grandparents, both seasoned physicians, and mastered the art of acupuncture. However, fate had other plans. Her father's company was on the brink of collapse, and to save it, she was forced to marry Lu Jingming, a business genius who had been left in a vegetative state by a car accident. Known for h 2.5kReads6.8Score146Shelves
- 94 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 1.1kReads6.4Score—Shelves
- 95 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. 1.8kReads—Score—Shelves
- 96 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 1.1kReads—Score100Shelves
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I Transmigrated into a Villainess, So I Helped the Big Shot Rise Again 穿成恶毒女配，我陪大佬东山再起
Transmigrate into a book + marriage first, love later + adorable child + satisfying revenge + sweet romance + going off the rails + no-brainer fun + devoted couple Xu Yi transmigrates into a book as a vicious supporting character who is eight months pregnant. The original character cares only about money. To attach herself to a powerful man, she schemes to get pregnant by him. But when she learns he has gone bankrupt in her eighth month of pregnancy, she unhesitatingly aborts the baby, dumps h
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- 98 A Contract Upon Graduation: I Became CEO Lu’s Wife 毕业即契约：我成了陆总的妻 [Marriage before love + contract marriage + both leads are each other’s first + unhinged second male lead] With every job application disappearing into a black hole and rent notices piling up on her desk, Su Wanwan’s graduation season was nothing but a frantic mess. Then Lu Tingye appeared with a three-year marriage contract: “One million yuan to become Mrs. Lu.” She signed without hesitation. Compared to the misery of being unemployed, this deal was the only lifeline she had. He was a powerful, 31Reads—Score—Shelves
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After Their Wedding, She Stunned Everyone, and the Cold Mr. Lu Fell for Her 婚后她惊艳全场，冷酷陆总真香了
[One-on-one romance + mutually exclusive first love + gentle Chinese beauty + domineering CEO with an overactive imagination and elaborate inner monologues + marriage before love + exclusive devotion and sweet romance] After they marry, Lu Shijun tells Ning Ran, “There are no feelings between us. We’ll see each other just once a month.” Facing this domineering CEO, famous for his coldheartedness, Ning Ran lowers her eyes and replies, “Okay.” Everyone else assumes Ning Ran is just an ordinary wom
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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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