Looking for a Marriage-First, Love-Later Story 先婚后爱找书
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Hi, Brother-in-Law: Send Me Some Cash 你好,联姻哥,爆点金币
[Guaranteed sweet, no angst, outspoken leads, with a touch of comedy] For reasons too embarrassing to explain, Ling Ling and Fu Yixun entered into an arranged marriage. On their first day as husband and wife, CEO Fu stunned her with his words: “I can give you money, but I can’t give you love.” Ling Ling: “...I’m only here for your money!” - Fu Yixun: “Don’t get any ideas about me. You’re free to go out and meet other people.” Ling Ling: “...Okay, old man.” Fu Yixun: “You should call me ‘husband’
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After the Divorce, My Ex-Husband Clutches Our Twins and Weeps 离婚后,前夫抱着两团子哭唧唧
[A sweet girl starved for love × a possessive, refined CEO] After three years of marriage, Su Wan is the envy of everyone as Mrs. Lu. Only she knows she is merely a “stand-in” Lu Chengze uses to placate his family. The one in his heart has always been Lin Weiwei, his first love, who lives far away overseas. On a rainy night in late autumn, he hands her divorce papers and says coolly, “Su Wan, Weiwei is pregnant. We should end this.” Her fingers turn white as she grips the papers. Looking at the
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The Eleventh Spring of My Secret Love 暗恋他的第十一年春
[Bright Flower Shop Owner × Cool, Distinguished Diplomat] [Devoted 1v1 First Love | Sweet Romance | Misunderstood Secret Crush | Love Returned | Flash Marriage] At sixteen, Shen Zhuying falls for a boy. He likes wearing white shirts, plays the drums, and gets dimples when he smiles. He's a blazing sun she can never reach. At eighteen, she repeats a year of school and gets into the same university as him, only to learn that he transferred to England half a year ago. At twenty-two, she sees him ag
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Double Happiness 上上禧
[Marriage First, Love Later + Older Man + Secret Crush + Both Leads Are Inexperienced] Song Xi had a good friend. Her friend said her second brother was rich and handsome, tall with long legs, and urged Song Xi to go on a blind date and win him over. Then she could become her beloved second sister-in-law. Song Xi got carried away and agreed. The good news: They slept together. The bad news: She slept with the wrong person. The crazy news: She got a marriage certificate with the wrong person. Whe
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Giving In 服软
[Clear-headed, sweet-natured actress vs. lovesick, doting CEO who embodies the ideal husband] - To help her older sister find love, Lin Yang's own mother set her up for a night together. Lin Yang got pregnant, and the father was the rumored Qin heir who supposedly had no interest in women. Young Master Qin said they should get married. Lin Yang refused. Qin Jue: “I'll give you a hundred million for signing the marriage papers.” Lin Yang: “Woohoo, sounds great!” - The night their child was born,
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After Eloping with Her Childhood Friend, Her Rugged Commander Husband Went Crazy 和竹马私奔后,糙汉首长急疯了
[Short drama adaptation now streaming] [Period setting + military marriage + sweet, satisfying romance + married first, love later + winning back his wife!] Song Shengsheng had a nightmare and discovered that she was the cannon-fodder villainess in a period novel: the male lead’s first wife, who died young. In the book, beauty was her only asset. To escape her husband, she wrote a letter reporting that her military officer husband came from a politically suspect background. That wasn’t all. When
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The Empress Leaped to Her Death, and the Mad Tyrant Wept Until His Eyes Were Red 皇后纵身一跃,疯批暴君哭红了眼
[One-on-one romance, devoted couple + palace intrigue + regretful pursuit, clear-headed heroine, everyone's unattainable ideal] Meng Tang is a gracious, gentle empress who never competes for favor. Everyone thinks she is a true white lotus standing tall in the harem, and even the tyrant believes it. He takes a new concubine, and she smiles, congratulates him, and arranges for the newcomer to spend the night with him. He sends her restorative medicine, and she obediently takes it, knowing full we
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Only Jing 唯京主义
The short drama is now streaming: The Spoiled Heiress of Hong Kong City x The Powerhouse of the Capital *One-on-one romance, both leads are each other’s one and only, push and pull with mutual flirting, happy ending &When they meet again, she is wearing a long black velvet dress with a thigh-high slit, leaning lazily against the railing on the bar’s second floor. Her eyes are lowered as she coolly watches the wild crowd dancing in the hall below. As if she spots someone, a playful smile curls h
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Heartbeat Over the Line 心跳越轨
[Signed for print publication] [Age gap + married first, love later + exceptionally gentle, fatherly male lead + both leads are each other's first] A restrained cardiac surgeon x a sweet young woman who grows into herself *Complete. A sweet, everyday romance with no melodrama. - On the eve of her engagement, Jiang Qiao catches her boyfriend passionately kissing another woman. As she stands there in a pitiful state, Pei Zhihe's tall figure appears beside her. His deep, dark eyes look at her from
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Marrying at the First Opportunity 伺机而婚
[Both pure * slow-burn, steady romance * mutual salvation, female architect × abstinent CEO. She is twenty-five, he is twenty-nine] After her fiancé He Junze cheated on her, Wen Jingsong immediately set her sights on his cousin, He Simin. As the head of the prestigious He family, He Simin was powerful and influential, understated and reserved, yet courteous and gracious toward others. Wen Jingsong had an unsavory reputation in the public eye. People remembered her either for the scandalous stori
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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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Transmigrated to the 1980s: The Military Bigwig Spoils Me and My Quadruplets 穿越八零,一胎四宝被军区大佬娇宠
(Transmigrate into a book + period setting + military marriage + love after marriage + devoted couple + adorable babies) Ye Shuang, a preschool teacher, was hit by a car and killed while saving a student. When she opened her eyes, she had become the male lead’s ill-fated former wife in a stepmother-era novel, a cannon-fodder character who died in childbirth. Her surname was Ye, and her fate was to die giving birth to quadruplets. Just as she was about to give up and accept her circumstances, a c
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My Wife Came to the Base to Divorce Me, and Now the Chaste Commander Is Panicking 媳妇来部队离婚,禁欲首长他急了
[The short drama Ask Your Heart How Much has launched] [Military marriage + period setting + sweet romance + devoted couple + family life + raising kids + face-slapping] The moment Jiang Ning opened her eyes, she realized she had become the cannon-fodder female character in a period novel. She'd been married for three years without ever seeing her husband, and was destined to spend the rest of her life alone. Jiang Ning thought, Spend the rest of my life alone? No way! She decisively left behind
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After Transmigrating into a Book, I Take the Children to Find Their Long-Dead Father 穿书后我带孩子找到他们早死的爹
[Transmigrate into a book + 1950s + daily life + raising children] Su Zhaozhao stayed up all night finishing a period novel. When she woke up, she’d been tossed into the book’s world as the male lead’s early-deceased ex-wife, a character who wasn’t even given a name and was barely mentioned. He thought she was gone, and she thought he was dead. The ex-wife struggled to survive with her two children until exhaustion took her life. Then Su Zhaozhao landed in her place… In this era of shortages, Su
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After We Married, the CEO’s Wife Had a Sore Waist Every Day 结婚后,总裁夫人每天都在腰酸
[Powerful family patriarch + devoted leads + marry first, fall in love later + sweet romance + flirty tension + sizzling chemistry] When Lin Youning learned that her parents had chosen Jian Cheng, a notorious playboy in their social circle, as her marriage partner, she took the initiative and went to Gu Huaichen, a powerful family patriarch who surpassed Jian Cheng in every way, from his methods to his wealth. According to rumor, Gu Huaichen was indifferent to women and impossible to approach. O
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The Sweetheart I Married on a Whim: My Scheming CEO Is Actually So Irresistible 闪婚小甜妻:腹黑总裁他真香了
[Both are each other's first and only + marriage before love] [A gentle, non-domineering CEO vs a sweet, kind girl with a mind of her own] On her way to school, Su Jinwei suddenly found a marriage certificate shoved into her hands. Help! Her dad had married her off without even asking her... Luckily, her “husband” was pretty handsome, and he seemed to have plenty of money? Shen Shiqing was a workaholic. Because of his family circumstances, he had never expected much from marriage. In public,
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The Wife My Family Arranged for Me Is Irresistible, and Mr. Fu Is Utterly Besotted 家里安排的老婆好香,傅总宠疯了
[Sweet romance + marriage first, love later + showbiz + wealthy family + both leads are inexperienced] Shen Tang transmigrates into a book. But she doesn’t panic at all. She’s only a background character, with nothing to do with the leads or the story’s plot. When someone offers to set her up on a date, she figures she’s never been married, so why not give it a try? And just like that, she has a whirlwind wedding with her blind date. Only to find out she married the male lead??? The male l
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After a Flash Marriage, the Capital's Tycoon Is Completely Smitten 京圈大佬闪婚后,彻底沦陷了
[Originally titled A Private Desire Takes Shape] [Both are virgins + marriage before love + healing] [Reclusive, world-weary novelist & self-restrained, refined scoundrel] When they first met, Shu Wanning was brought before Wen Yuci as collateral for her father's gambling debts. Wen Yuci gave a mocking laugh. “I have no intention of raising someone else's daughter.” The second time they met, he rescued her in the pouring rain. He never imagined that the umbrella he'd tilted toward her in a momen
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The Ice-Cold Officer Trains His Troops by Day and Grabs My Waist for a Kiss by Night! 冷面军官白天练兵,晚上掐腰亲!
[Military Marriage + Reborn, Sweet and Charming Doctor vs. Cold, Abstinent Special Forces Captain + Both Leads Are Each Other's Only One + Marriage Before Love + Utterly Devoted Romance] When her fiancé had to make an impossible choice between her and her stepsister, he chose her, indirectly causing her stepsister's death. After that, she was subjected to the cold shoulder and endless torment, abandoned by everyone, and eventually lost her life. When she opened her eyes again, she was back at th
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I Only Asked for a Divorce, So Why Am I Locked in the Black Room? 不就提个离婚,怎么就进小黑屋了
[Transmigrate into a book + married first, fall in love later + mildly coercive romance + every fictional character awakens] You are the male lead’s wicked ex-wife. When he falls on hard times, you threaten and tempt him into marrying you, then lock him in a dog cage after the wedding, beating and humiliating him. You break the pride in his bones and trample his dignity into the mud. The day he returns to his family and takes power is also the day you die. When Nie Sang arrives, the story
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Doctor Bo Flirts Until She Blushes: She Lies Flat, Lets Him Spoil Her, and Gets Pregnant 薄医生撩红了眼,她躺平任宠怀孕
[Fair-skinned, Beautiful, Cool-Tempered Teacher X Abstinent, Powerful Surgical Prodigy + Love After Secret Admiration + Everyone’s Darling + Fake and Real Heiresses] After getting drunk, Lin Yusheng impulsively married her longtime crush. Once she sobered up, she immediately lost her nerve and asked for a divorce. His reply was: “It’s been two days and two nights. You’re only just thinking of divorcing me after a whirlwind marriage?” To Bo Jinzhou, Lin Yusheng was like a weed growing through w
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The CEO Goes Crazy Looking for Love: Baby, Dump Him and Come to Me 总裁疯癫求偶:宝贝,甩了他跟我
[One-on-one Romance + Marriage First, Love Later + Shamelessly Forceful Courtship + Sweet Romance + Fake and Real Heiresses + Both Chaste] Feiyan was framed by her family and lost her virginity. When she woke up, she learned that her boyfriend had already gotten together with the real heiress. Heartbroken, she didn’t know what to do. The man swept her into his arms. “Dump him. Be with me.” “I won’t let you suffer any indignity, except in bed.” Feiyan slapped him and snapped, “You’re no better th
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After Two Years of Cold War, Master Fu Is Groveling to Win His Wife Back 冷战两年,傅爷追妻膝盖都跪烂了
After her husband divorced her for being dull and boring, he went mad, crying and begging her to take him back. [Marriage first, love later; groveling husband; 1v1; both pure] [Sharp-tongued, cool, stunning lawyer vs. refined, cruel young heir] Su Qingya used to think Fu Tingchen was just cold and slow to warm up in relationships. It was only after they married that she learned what a heartless jerk he could be. “I hear Young Master Fu has barely been home at all these past two years. I suppose
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Mr. Shang, Take It Easy on Our Wedding Night! 商先生,新婚请节制!
(Marriage first, love later + A gentle, slow-burn sweet romance) (Signed for publication) At twenty-seven, Wen Xi accidentally learns that she isn’t her parents’ biological daughter. Overnight, she has new parents, and even her fiancé changes. Her new fiancé, Shang Chen, is renowned in Beijing for being stern, cold, and taciturn. Everyone holds him in awe. People in their social circle all say that this newlywed couple, brought together halfway through life, probably won’t amount to much and won
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A Timely Rain in Hong Kong 港遇及时雨
Age gap + married-life slice of life + the hero falls first Liang Yuyin and Zhao Shunian’s marriage is purely a business arrangement, as everyone in Hong Kong’s wealthy circles knows. The illegitimate daughter of the Liang family, Yuyin is brought back by her biological father one day and made to take her half-sister’s place in an arranged marriage. She becomes the wife of Zhao Shunian, heir to the Zhao family. Everyone says she’s a sparrow that’s flown up a branch and become a phoenix. Yuyin t
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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.
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Love After Pregnancy: His Sweetheart Is Hard to Soothe, but He Spoils Her as He Pleases 先孕后爱:娇娇难哄,他肆意偏宠
[Spoiled little troublemaker VS gentle older daddy] [Pregnant first, love later + two wealthy families + both leads are each other’s only partners, sweet romance + seven-year age gap + slice of life] - At her senior year graduation dinner, Wen Song let herself drink a few too many. Drinking too much can indeed lead to trouble. For instance, she slept with the most handsome, but also most old-fashioned, professor in her department. The next morning, she woke up and fled in a panic. But a month la
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After We Got Our Marriage License, the Movie Emperor Doted on Me and Tenderly Wooed Me 领证后,影帝疯狂宠妻温柔诱哄
[A carefree, sultry beauty who loves to slack off vs. a cool, refined male top-tier star] Qiao Shu has been in the industry for two years and is still a little-known actress, while Jiang Tu has been a household-name top-tier star and award-winning actor for six years. The two had never crossed paths, but a marriage agreement tied them together. After their wedding, they treated each other with courtesy and kept their distance. Before long, however, the pair who had never had anything to do with
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Desire! The Cold-Blooded Tycoon Wants Kisses in My Arms After We Marry 欲!冷戾大佬婚后在我怀里要亲亲
[Marry First, Fall in Love Later | Sweet Romance | Winning Her Back | Swoony Romance] Song Qingtang was famous in her social circle as a classical dance fairy, stunningly beautiful, cool, and gentle. Jin Zhuochuan was the mad dog everyone avoided: reckless, cold-hearted, arrogant, and impossible to tame. No one would ever have linked the two of them. Until the Song and Jin families arranged their marriage, tying them together as husband and wife. - On their wedding night, Jin Zhuochuan sat on th
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A Miserable Life for Villainous Spouses: Where Should We Cause Trouble Today? 反派夫妻百事哀,今天在哪搞破坏
[Troublemaking drama queen heroine vs. villainous big shot who cleans up after her] Su Zhi became the newlywed wife of the villainous big shot Huo Wujiao. In the story, she was a wealthy family's fake heiress who had done every kind of evil. One day, she was thrown out of the house, and on the street she found the “fallen and powerless” villain Huo Wujiao. Each had something the other wanted, so they got married. To earn enough life points to survive, she joined forces with the big shot and they
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Before Marriage: I’d Rather Marry a Dog Than You. After Marriage: Woof, Woof, Wife! 婚前:娶你是狗,婚后:老婆汪汪
A spoiled young playboy × a career-driven woman who's cold on the outside and warm within Marriage before love + shotgun wedding + whirlwind marriage + love growing over time + a forceful wife-taming technique + playboy heir + strong career woman Hua Yuchen is mistakenly diagnosed with pregnancy nausea, which leads to the unexpected discovery that Ling Miao is pregnant. That's right, the baby is his. But the two of them are bitter rivals who start cursing each other at the slightest provocation.
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After a Flash Marriage to an Engineer, I Became the Wealthy Family's Eldest Daughter-in-Law 闪婚理工男后,我成了豪门嫡长媳
[Marriage first, love later + stunning beauty + male engineer + adorable baby] They say lust is a knife hanging over your head, and even the gorgeous Li Xi can’t escape it! She makes the first move: “Are you hot?” The engineer blushes to the tips of his ears. “A little!” Afterward, one tiny mistake on her part is all it takes for two adorable little beans to sprout in her belly! Her domineering engineer switches into action: “Marry me!”
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The Older Bride Calls Me a Little Liar 大龄女嫁霸总叫我小骗子
Nan Jiayu, an older single woman, needs to complete the year-end task her mother set for her! So she comes up with what she thinks is a flawless plan to ensnare Yan Yu, a high-quality man! One day, she discovers she’s pregnant! Nan Jiayu fumes. “I only wanted the child, not the father!” Yan Yu sneers. “Little liar, you can have my child, but you’re keeping me too!”
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Changing Nests [Original Novel of the Short Drama Starring Liu Xiaoxu and Wang Gege!!!] 移巢【刘萧旭×王格格主演短剧 同名原著小说!!!】
[Starring Liu Xiaoxu and Wang Gege in the short drama of the same name, based on this original novel!!!] [Yi Linxun: a brooding, restrained, devoted husband and loyal wolfdog who regrets his choices | Chao Ning: a sharp, clear-eyed beauty who knows how to play her cards] [Modern romance + premium novel + urban life + marriage before love + mature romance + the regretful ex’s arduous pursuit] Chao Ning is beautiful, talented, and curvy. She’s a bona fide rich beauty, but she’s neither arrogant n
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A Marriage Alliance Between Wealthy Families: The Supporting Female Character Stays Calm Even After Learning the Plot 豪门联姻:女配知道剧情后也很稳
(Engaged first, then register the marriage + Everyday life + Sweet romance + Love after marriage + Chasing his wife + Emotionally stable leads + Both leads have only ever been with each other) Blurb One: The Lin and Zhou families arrange a marriage between their children. The eldest daughter of the Lin family only wants to focus on her career and has no interest in marriage. The second daughter keeps breaking up and getting back together with her boyfriend, caught up in the twists and turns of
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Out of Control! I Fell in Love After Marrying My Mortal Enemy 失控!跟死对头先婚后爱了
[Childhood Sweethearts + Mortal Enemies + Marriage Before Love + Sweet Romance + Both Virgins] Li Chutang is the second daughter of the Li family, one of the capital’s elite. Beautiful, bold, spoiled, and vindictive, she is widely regarded as the rich heiress no one in high society dares offend. Song Zhiyan is the second son of the Song family, one of the capital’s elite. Arrogant and unruly, he could make the capital’s rich list by founding his own company, without inheriting the family busines
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Sweet and Sizzling! Spoiled Rotten by My Ex's Uncle 甜撩!被前任小叔娇宠成瘾
[Devoted to Each Other + Sweet Romance + Secret Crush Comes True + Marriage First, Love Later + Flirting and Playing Hard to Get] [Male Lead Bides His Time to Claim His Place + Second Male Lead Chases His Wife to the Crematorium] [Spoiled Heiress x Powerful, Protective Older Man] Pei Yuning, the youngest daughter of the prestigious Pei family, grew up adored by everyone, the recipient of boundless love. Shortly before her wedding, her fiancé, Shang Heng, was caught cheating with a celebrity, and
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My Husband, Whom I Mistreated, Turns His Life Around, and I'm in Trouble 被我作践的老公翻身后,我惨了
“I've been wanting you for so long...” In the darkness of night, the man kisses me without restraint. He's my live-in husband. One drunken night, I slept with him, and the scandal caused a huge stir. So I, a pampered heiress, had no choice but to make this down-and-out young man marry into my family and become my husband. Bitterly resentful, I repeatedly humiliated and abused him, beating and berating him at every turn. But he never got angry, always behaving like a gentle, virtuous man. Just as
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