He Has Been Planning This for Ages, and His Secret Crush Comes True: Sweet from Start to Finish! 男主蓄谋已久 暗恋成真，从头甜到尾！
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The Cunning Tycoon: My Aloof Boss's Tender Trap 腹黑大佬：高冷领导的温柔陷阱
[Workplace drama in the public sector + age gap + forceful love that later becomes passionate devotion + secret crush turned real + romantic tension + career growth.] After graduating, Shiqing takes the civil service exam, never imagining she would end up working under Lu Tingyuan, her best friend's older brother. Even more surprisingly, the icy, imposing man who had intimidated her ever since their school days has apparently been watching her all along! After an accidental drunken encounter, he
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I Married Into a Powerful Family, and He Spoils Me Rotten! 嫁给豪门大少，我被他宠上天！
The eldest young master of the He family is known for his domineering and ruthless nature. He Yichuan is overbearing and cold-hearted, seemingly incapable of being interested in anyone. Like a Buddhist monk, he stayed abstinent for six months after getting married. He married her only because his elders told him to. Su Xi thought so too: sooner or later, they would end up divorced. But after an unexpected mishap brought them together for one passionate night, He Yichuan began to change. He b
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Max-Level Sweet Seduction! Enchanting in Lord Fu's Embrace 满级甜诱！在傅爷的怀里声色撩人
[Signed for publication + comic adaptation] [Flirtatious chemistry and sizzling romance!] Jiang Yuyang is hailed as a peerless beauty, with a stunning face, a slender waist, and a soft, supple figure. To call off her arranged marriage, she pulls out all the stops to flirt with her intended. She never imagined she’d flirt with the wrong person! Rumor has it that Fu Wenshen, the head of the Fu family, is a self-disciplined, celibate man who avoids women. Little do people know that he looks refined
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The School Belle Was Reborn and Is Madly Chasing After Me 高冷校花重生了，疯狂倒追我
[Lighthearted daily life]+ [One heroine]+ [Sweet romance]+ [No System]+ [Mutual healing] … In a car accident, Lin Ran bravely risks his life to save his former high school deskmate, the school belle. When he wakes up reborn, Lin Ran is back in his high school classroom at eighteen. The next second, the school belle beside him rushes over with tear-filled, red eyes and hugs him tightly! School belle, choking back tears: “I found you!” Lin Ran: “?” … It turns out his school-belle deskmate has been
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Malicious Takeover: The Unhinged Big Shot Bows His Head and Willingly Becomes My Dog 恶意侵占：疯批大佬俯首甘为犬
[A lovestruck, sickly, gloomy, humble succubus puppy is the best dowry of all!] [North America’s top power broker + coercive love + female-centered + dog training + nonhuman + a few pop-up comments] After a beautiful sweetheart catches the eye of a gentlemanly, brooding vicious dog * On a stormy night, by a Maybach, Sang Yu is caught by the man pursuing her, who presses a gun to her waist. His sinister, malicious threats fill her ears. “Run again, and I’ll break your legs.” * Just as Sang Yu th
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At Night, I Embrace a River of Falling Stars 夜揽沉星河
[Price just dropped, but it’ll go up later] Fatherly, secretly passionate, guiding, celibate CEO vs. sweet, clearheaded beauty who doesn’t overthink [Physical first, love later + Mature romance + Intense push and pull + Stealing someone’s wife + Seven-year age gap] Xu Zhiye has been married for three years, but her husband has been absent from her bed the entire time. To get back at him for cheating, she turns around and sleeps with his direct superior, Gu Chenxiao. She thought it would be a mut
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After Our Whirlwind Wedding, President Pei Lost Control 闪婚后，裴总失控了
[Reunion + mutual secret crushes + each other’s first love + devoted to each other + sweet romance] [Cool, gentle good girl + refined, devoted heir] In their first year of high school, Pei Jinheng fell in love at first sight with the gentle, beautiful Lin Qiao. From then on, the cool and refined Pei Jinheng became a talkative, cocky, handsome rogue whenever he was around Lin Qiao. But one misunderstanding after another drove them further apart. Then, when Pei Jinheng turned twenty-six, the Pei a
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I Turned My Secret Crush Into a Novel, and It Became a Hit 我把暗恋写成小说，没想到火了
I Turned My Secret Crush Into a Novel, and Never Expected It to Become a Hit
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The Female Side Character Is Too Radiant, and the Villain Can't Stop Kissing Her 女配太明媚，会被黑化大佬亲上瘾
I got a low score because someone sabotaged me. Kids, don’t read this. “Bright, charming, and bold villainess × a gloomy, unhinged big shot who pretends to be deaf” The moment Song Chuntian opened her eyes, she found herself in the role of the vicious female supporting character who tormented the future big shot. The original owner of her body had committed countless evil deeds. Now reborn, Fu Shen had fallen completely into darkness. He locked her away in a private sanatorium and tortured her
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Paulownia in the Palm 掌中疏桐
The main story is complete. Originally titled In the Palm of Shu Tong. The rating just went live, so it may rise later! [Mutual First Love] [Alternate Universe] [Possessive Love] [Beautiful Wife] [Powerful Official] [Adorable Child] [Pregnancy Escape] [Historical Political Intrigue] Luo Shutong, the most proper young lady in the capital, woke one morning to find Ye Chuan, the powerful Grand Secretary who held sway over the court, lying beside her. Trembling, she took out all the money she had. "
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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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Wild and Desirable! The Capital’s Heir Spoils Her Like a Little Princess 很野很欲！被京圈太子宠成小公主
[Male Lead Steals the Girl + Second Male Lead Chases His Wife to the Crematorium + Both Pure] [Rugged, Sensual, Wild and Wicked Suit-Wearing Bruiser x Slender, Soft, Fair and Beautiful Qipao Siren] Su Yanxi and Gu Yanze were betrothed as children. When she was nine, a major family crisis forced her to live with the Gu family. Under the Chinese scholar tree, a boy held a basketball and smiled brightly as he popped a White Rabbit candy into her mouth. “Little Crybaby, don’t cry. Big Brother will t
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So Hard to Win Over! The Little Rose Mr. Xie Raised Himself Is So Delicate 难哄！谢总亲手养大的小玫瑰超娇
[Marriage Before Love] [Mutual devotion, sweet pampering] [The regretful chase ends in total failure] Everyone in Nancheng knows that Shen Rang has a beautiful, gentle fiancée. Her eyes curve when she smiles, her voice is soft, and she’s so good-natured she seems willing to be molded any which way. Most importantly, she has loved him for three years, looking up to him from afar. Shen Rang used to think so, too. So even after she caught him cheating, he placated her with casual indifference: “Don
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A Heartthrob Takes Over His Body, and the Timid Doormat Takes the Whole School by Storm 被男神魂穿，软糯受气包飒翻全校
The refined, scheming crown prince VS the soft, timid little bunny with an inferiority complex Healing | Unrequited Love Comes True | Soul Transmigration | Reborn and Pursuing His Wife Xie Yanci opens his eyes and finds that he has transmigrated into someone else’s body! He has ended up in the body of Song Qiwan, a girl who lets everyone walk all over her. The girl clutches a diary filled with his name as her bullies pin her down in the restroom and pour dirty water over her head. The school’s
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Reborn to Save My Gloomy Boyfriend, Only to Be Forced into Love 重生救赎阴郁男友，反被强制爱
“Spoiled, selfish heiress VS brooding, devoted campus heartthrob” “Mutual devotion + sweet and bittersweet angst + past and present lives” Only after Shen Xingchen died did she learn the truth: The brooding man she had feared and guarded against her whole life was the only person in the world who loved her with all his heart. He cleared every obstacle for her and gave her everything. Then, right in front of her, he leapt from the stage at a press conference. * Shen Xingchen opened her eyes and
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Silence and the Joy of Life 沉默与生欢
Chen Mo isn’t particularly quiet, and Wang Huanhuan isn’t a particularly cheerful person, either. But Chen Mo’s presence fills Huanhuan with joy. More precisely, Huanhuan is the one who brought Chen Mo into the real world. Through all those years before we ever met, I was ordinary, and I still am. The only difference is that now, you’re by my side.
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A Long-Laid Plan, A Secret Love Come True 蓄谋已久，暗恋成真
[Fu Linghan × Song Jingshu] When Song Jingshu was seven, her sweet, slightly mischievous charm at her birthday party slowly found its way into Fu Linghan’s heart. Lord Fu feared nothing, except his little darling pouting at him or shedding tears. He kept waiting for her to fall for him, waiting for her to be unable to let him go. When Lord Fu finally succeeded in marrying her, the whole capital was thrown into an uproar. “Lord Fu, you’ve changed.” “How have I changed?” “Your family used to be al
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After Years of Secretly Loving Her, Mr. Gu Finally Gets His Wish 暗恋多年，顾总他终于得偿所愿
(A decade of secret love, steadfast protection, and finally getting what he wished for.) Nan Yan and Lu Chuan had been together for seven years. She stood by him as he climbed from rock bottom to the top, but three months before their wedding, his childhood sweetheart and first love, Su Xuwan, reappeared. She had lost her memory, and remembered only seven years ago, when she and Lu Chuan had been passionately in love. To help her recover her memories, Lu Chuan reenacted their past with her again
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Spoiled Rotten! The Tycoon’s Sweet Little Wife Wins Over the Whole Family 宠爆了！财阀小娇妻甜翻全家
[Both leads are inexperienced + marriage first, love later + seven-year age gap + possessive, fatherly male lead + groveling redemption] Xie Jinchen, the current head of the top-tier Xie family in the capital, is cold and dignified, disciplined and proper, with a distant temperament that makes him seem above it all. Jiang Minghua, the youngest daughter of the Jiang family, is their cherished darling, spoiled and adorable, beautiful and wealthy, practically a living Barbie doll. No one would ever
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The Spoiled Heiress Pretends to Be Sweet and Flirts, but the Chaste Young Master Truly Falls for Her 作精千金假软撩，禁欲少主真沦陷
Older, abstinent, scheming man X spoiled, high-maintenance sweetheart | Pretending to please X Falling in love for real | Possessiveness | An intense game of push and pull On the first day after being reborn, to stay alive, Shentu Shu softened her waist and pressed close to the powerful man. "Young Master, keep me here. There are plenty of things I can do..." Tears clung to the corners of her eyes, making her look pitiful. After her father died of illness, her stepmother had banished her to thi
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A Marriage Contract as Bait 婚书为饵
[Gentle yet strong classical beauty × paternalistic, old-school political heavyweight] [Long-planned courtship + growing together + healing + 18-year age gap + both physically and emotionally devoted] ★ He gives her his undivided affection and protects her so she can live without a care in the world A political marriage and a written agreement bound two people who otherwise would have had nothing to do with each other. The An family had a daughter, twenty-three years old, yet he chose her, who w
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After the White Moonlight Was Possessed, the Governor Dotes on Her Without Restraint 白月光被夺舍后，督主他娇宠无度
[A clever, sly, and lustful heroine VS a dark, restrained powerbroker] [Both are each other’s only one, one-on-one romance, secret love becomes mutual, doted-on heroine, happy ending] Note: The soul swap is just a brief opening. They switch back after a dozen or so chapters, and the main story begins! She meant to make herself a piece in the game, but in the end, she trapped the game with her heart! After transmigrating, Feng Yaoyao swapped souls with the powerful Chief Eunuch Shang! She thought
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She Once Walked Through the Storm 她曾穿过风暴
The male lead is a shipping magnate who seems gentle, considerate, mature, and dependable. In reality, he has secretly harbored a crush for years, gets jealous easily, and has a somewhat twisted streak, with a taste for having things his way. The second male lead is a university professor who will do anything to win back his ex. On the day they broke up, Wu You caught Zhou Huai, her boyfriend of seven years and a university professor, kissing a wealthy heiress. She thought she could take it in
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The Young Lady Has Too Many Admirers, and Her Imperial Tutor Turns Dark 小姑娘桃花太多，帝师大人黑化了
[Master and disciple + princess x half-raising x doting, fatherly boyfriend x scheming x age gap x mutually devoted] [One-line synopsis: The aloof beauty atop the peak is brought down from her pedestal by a clever, beautiful princess] One day, after learning the secret of the White Crane Gu, Ling Xiao worked up the courage to ask Li Changfeng, “What if none of my three royal consorts are willing to divorce me?” Li Changfeng lowered his eyes and smiled faintly, though his gaze was filled with a c
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A Confession Hidden Away 告白难藏
[Redemption + healing + tragic ending + unrequited love + reunion after a long separation + lingering heartbreak + slice of life] A gloomy, aloof girl x a brash, sunny boy They first met when Chi Zhiyu mistakenly thought she was about to kill herself and saved her. He said a lot of things. She wasn’t wearing her hearing aids then, so she couldn’t hear him. From Qing Yi’s perspective, that was their first meeting. The second time they met, she smelled smoke in the alley on her way to school. She
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The Years of Jinyu's Story 嫤语书年
The realm was in chaos, and enemy troops had reached the city walls. Fu Jin, a highborn woman whose entire clan had been wiped out, was forced to marry Wei Tan, the eldest son of a warlord at the height of his power. The world had turned upside down: the once princess-like darling of heaven was now an older bride marrying for the second time, while the obscure son of a minor official had become her husband, a warlord who looked down on all under heaven. Survival in turbulent times was hard, and
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Orange Soda 橘子汽水
Orange Soda is a coming-of-age novel about a heartwarming, healing love story between a young man and woman living in a small town in southern China. Zhou Yu and Cheng Yuzhou meet when they return to their hometown to take the college entrance exam, and grow closer while preparing for it. The gap between their family backgrounds gives rise to many differences in perspective and misunderstandings. They don’t see each other again for several years after the exam. Then, by chance, Zhou Yu and Cheng
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Reborn as the Cannon-Fodder Original Wife of a Mad Power-Hungry Minister 穿成疯批权臣的炮灰原配
[Farming + Transmigrate into a Book + Sweet Romance] Witty, scheming girl vs. lovesick, obsessive powerbroker Xin Yueying transmigrates into a book, landing in an old-fashioned, preachy novel as the wicked wife of the deranged, obsessive second male lead. Shen Qingqi is the novel’s deranged, villainous male character. Born into a family of famed generals, he was imprisoned alongside the Shen family after his father offended powerful nobles. He suffered terribly in prison and was left with crippl
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Love Ends with Childhood Sweethearts 爱止于青梅
My husband’s childhood sweetheart and I were kidnapped at the same time. When forced to choose between us, Lu Yubai, who loved me more than life itself, chose her. “I'm sorry, honey. I owe her my life, but I’ll spend the rest of mine making it up to you.” “If you choose her, there won’t be a rest of our lives!” After a long silence, he still carried his childhood sweetheart away. I smiled through my tears. After I was rescued, I left town and went far away. But he searched the whole world for me
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Claiming the Springtime All to Myself 独占春光
[Rugged, Testosterone-Fueled Hero, Size Difference, Sweet Romance, Mutual Firsts, Northern Man x Southern Girl] Seductive sweetheart x rugged veteran Wen Li and He Dong had nothing to do with each other, but by the rules of seniority, she had to call him Uncle Dong. The man was tall and imposing, with a stern face that made him look unapproachable. But he treated her wonderfully, and they got along well enough. Until she lost her head and kissed him by force. After that, everything began to spi
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Reborn: Stolen Time 重生之偷来的时光
Wang Qi was reborn. She had returned to the summer of 2012, to the sweltering, damp July in Chengdu, and to the narrow bed in that shabby rental room. It had all yet to happen. She briskly broke up with the man who would betray her in the future. And the man who would one day be worth hundreds of millions and shine in financial news was sitting at the desk beside hers, quietly tapping away at his code in a dark gray T-shirt. In this life, she would wear comfortable clothes, eat all her favorite
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Snow Still Falls Over the Capital 京雪未央
Everyone told Lin Shu that Shen Yanqing, a powerful man from the highest echelons of Beijing society, had loved too many people to ever stay for anyone. But clear-eyed even as she sank deeper, she still boarded this colossal ship, and he gradually drew her into Beijing's upper circles. He said, "It's nice to stay in Beijing. That way, you'll be close to me." But in the end, he personally sent her to America.
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Half a Plum Blossom, Five Parts Sweet 半落青梅五分糖
After an accident, she married her best friend's older brother. He was a poker-faced man, but he carefully set one trap after another to spoil her, until she gradually fell for his honeyed words. He said, “We're practically childhood friends, so I can't spoil you too much. Three parts sweetness is too bland, and all sugar is too cloying. Five parts is just right. That's how we can be happy together for a lifetime!”
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After Twelve Years of Secretly Loving Him, She Falls Deeply in Love with Doctor Song After Marriage 暗恋十二年，她和宋医生婚后热恋
[Bright, cheerful teacher and roguishly handsome doctor] [Both leads are each other's only partners, the heroine's unrequited love finally comes true, the hero falls in love after marriage, sweet romance] On Valentine's Day, twenty-eight-year-old Fang Zhixu ran into Song Chengzhi, the man she'd had a crush on for years. To appease their parents, they took a photo holding hands. Later, Song Chengzhi asked her, “Would you like to go register our marriage?” Fang Zhixu agreed without hesitation. Aft
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Drinking to Excess 纵酒
A modern girl transmigrates into the body of Lu Shu, the legitimate daughter of the Lu clan of Fanyang. Before she can even celebrate, she realizes she has arrived in the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, when the An Lushan Rebellion is destined to break out. Fanyang is the rebellion’s birthplace, and for the sake of both her country and her family, she must stop it. Lu Shu knows the root of the problem is land consolidation and the separatist rule of military governors. But simply killing An Lushan wo
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First Love Means Choosing You 初恋就是我选你
[Mature and steady fake school bully X quirky real top student, a sweet and carefree first love on campus, dedicated to those simple little joys] [Youth on campus + a fake top student's comeback + from school uniforms to wedding gowns + the school bully everyone fears turns into a kitten in front of Li Dongzhi!] She has plenty of labels: face-conscious, lovesick, and a top student. He, in everyone's eyes, is a hopeless slacker, but he has a very handsome face. The first time they met, she coul
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Sir, You've Fallen for Me (Eight-Book Set) 这位先生你动心了（套装八册）
A bickering couple, a contract romance, and a fake relationship that turns real. Forced to put on a show together, they unexpectedly fall for each other. One look is all it takes to know: you’re the one I want to grow old with.
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After Our Flash Marriage, Dr. Fu Wants a Kiss Every Day 闪婚后，傅医生每天要亲亲
Completed novel [Mutual first love + doting romance + childhood sweethearts + reunion after years apart + long-planned love] [Secretly in love from the hero's perspective + marriage first, love later from the heroine's perspective] [Carefree woman who returned from overseas vs. calculating, obsessive, self-controlled doctor] Ten years ago, Fu Chonglou accidentally saw Bai Lu bathing. The embarrassing incident was so awkward that they didn't speak for the next ten years. Less than a month after t
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After Their Whirlwind Wedding, Lord Jin's Secret Wife Became His Sweetest Obsession 闪婚后，靳爷的隐婚小娇妻甜爆了
Both leads are each other's first + secret crush + the male lead's secret love comes true, while the heroine gets married first and falls in love later. After being kicked out of her home, Jiang Tang impulsively married Jin Hanxiao, one of the most powerful men in the capital. He was her brother's friend, and she used him as a shield to escape He Jinzhou. Jiang Tang always thought their marriage was a matter of mutual convenience. But after they married... He was the one cooking in the kitchen,
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Made It: This Young Woman Just Wants to Get Ahead 成功上岸：小姑娘只想进步
The rating is new and will rise (both leads work in government + age gap + love at first sight + each other's only love + happy ending + sweet, no angst) (A newly hired, soft-spoken young woman × a promising young bureau chief) Yu Kexin is gentle and sweet-natured, with a soft, endearing face, but she comes from a poor family. After finally passing the exam to become a grassroots civil servant, all she wants is to do her job well. Instead, her colleague's cousin, a bureau chief, sets his sights
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Dr. Bi, You're Destined to Be Mine! 毕医生你注定是我的！
Synopsis: On her first day working at a coffee shop, Mu Qiqi fell for Bi Jinyan at first sight when he came in to buy an iced coffee. She thought she would never see him again, and that their meeting was just a brief encounter with no future. But as it turned out, Bi Jinyan was a close friend of the coffee shop's owner, and he came by almost every day to buy an unsweetened iced coffee. Mu Qiqi initially thought she wasn't good enough for him, so she never dared to look him in the eye. Then, by c
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Good Heavens! I Sat at the Wrong Table and Got a Tycoon for Free 天呐！我走错桌，白捡一个霸总
Billionaire CEO, doting romance, whirlwind marriage, contract marriage It hadn't even been half a day since she went on a blind date and came out of the civil affairs bureau with a marriage certificate. She had simply gone to the wrong table, but he decided to go along with the mistake. At first, they both thought they would part ways after a year. Neither expected that, before the year was up, they would already have grown accustomed to each other.
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Hello, Officer Li 李警官你好
[Sweet romance + comedy + happy ending] She says: “I think you’re a really good person. Why don’t we date?” He says: “I thought we started dating the first time we met?” She says: “Are you afraid I’ll bully her?” He says: “I’m afraid you’ll leave me…” A helpful matchmaker? You bet! The villains are all just stepping stones!
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The Captain Is Too Charming, and the Delicate Beauty Knows How to Act Cute 禁欲队长太撩人，柔弱美人会撒娇
The rating just went up, but it’ll rise, so don’t worry and enjoy! [Mutual devotion + Slow-burn romance + Sweet pampering + Both leads are each other’s first] (Cool, abstinent special-police officer × Gentle, adorable teacher) Jiang Lichu first met Bai Xian’an at an open day at the police camp. He leaped from a high-rise in his combat uniform, descending like a god of war. Amid the crowd’s chorus of “Wow!” she couldn’t help thinking that, sure enough, all the handsome men had been handed over to
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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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Ruoxi Reborn: Old Love, New Schemes to Conquer the Fourth Prince's Harem 若曦重生：旧爱新谋称霸四爷后宫
With memories of her previous life and being reborn, Ruoxi once again steps into the struggle among the nine princes for the throne. Facing her old flame, she refuses to be as passive as she was in her last life. Yinzhen, bring on your romantic tricks! With Ruoxi taking the initiative, she enters Prince Yinzhen’s household and dominates the harem, battling the concubines. How will Yinzhen deal with Nian Shilan and Yixiu? And what kind of tumultuous love stories and emotional entanglements will u
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Dr. Song, I'm Barely an Adult 宋医生，我才刚成年
(This is very melodramatic. The male lead has a messy past and an ex-girlfriend, and there are kidnappings and slaps. It's not good, don't read it! Take my advice!) [Obstetrician at a top-tier hospital (secretly an heir to a powerful family in the capital) VS mischievous, troublemaking, top-university-attending female academic] [Male lead with a messy past + ten-year age gap + doting husband] Lin Yue probably never imagined she'd somehow end up registering a marriage with a man she'd known for l
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Why the Childhood Sweetheart Waited for Her Childhood Friend 何以青梅，终候竹马
How Childhood Sweethearts Waited at Last for Their One True Love
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Lovers in the Backlight 逆光爱人
This is a story about prejudice and redemption. When the whole world sees you in one particular way, will there still be someone willing to believe in you? When fate tramples someone into the dirt, can they still bloom? A lover coming toward you against the light, ordinary and warm...
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Celadon Holds a Trace 青釉承微
· Cultural relic restoration × aristocratic arranged marriage × childhood friends · Professional detail × restrained devotion × the philosophy of kintsugi Her world held nothing but artifact restoration and archaeological excavation pits. Until one day, Fifth Granduncle sat in the front hall and spoke leisurely: “Your grandfather and the Lu family’s grandfather arranged your marriage when you were children.” Lu Chengyuan stood in the hall with gifts of every size, immaculate in his suit, his
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