He Sees the Green Lime

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This novel:

[Flirty Little Beauty vs. Mature Daddy]

Marriage First, Love Later | Age Gap | Romantic Tension | Sweet Everyday Life |

The summer she graduated, Jiang Ning was told by her father that she was to marry into the Qin family.

The Qin family's eldest son, Qin Lin, is 188 cm tall and the head of the Qin Group. His body and face are both top-notch, and he's famous for keeping himself pure.

For some reason, he agreed to his father's proposal.

Jiang Ning knew nothing about him, but she couldn't take any more of her father's nagging. After returning to China, she agreed to meet the man.

She sat quietly by the window in a corner cafe, waiting for him to arrive.

Before long, a figure carrying a faint scent of mint passed beside her, then naturally took the seat across from her.

She slowly raised her head and met a pair of dark, gentle eyes.

"Hello, Miss Jiang."

"I'm Qin Lin."

Those were the first words he ever said to her.

After she got home, Jiang Ning called her father.

"Fine. I agree."

It was only marriage. If she didn't choose Qin Lin, her father would choose someone else.

Besides, Qin Lin's looks were exactly to her taste. His mature-man vibe was off the charts.

He was just her type.

Later, as they stood outside the marriage registry, Qin Lin asked her, "Have you really made up your mind?"

Jiang Ning tilted her head and smiled playfully. "What, are you scared?"

The man lowered his eyes, his lips pressed together. His voice was soft. "No. I'm afraid you'll regret it."

The wind was strong that day. Jiang Ning's skirt fluttered in the breeze, brushing against the man's suit trousers, black and white entwined.

"I won't regret it, unless you cheat after we're married."

Qin Lin looked utterly serious, speaking each word as if making an oath:

"You will be the only woman I ever call my wife."

After they married, Qin Lin was practically the perfect husband. His thoughtful care and attention nearly made Jiang Ning drown in his tenderness.

Jiang Ning was happy with everything about her husband, but there was one thing she'd noticed: whether before or after their marriage, the man treated her with the utmost respect.

Traditional and proper, he never crossed a line.

Even at the perfect moments, all he did was kiss her forehead and say, "Good night."

Jiang Ning couldn't take it anymore and started throwing herself at him, but each time, he only held her in his arms, his eyes cool and restrained. "Ningning, be good."

Jiang Ning angrily pinched his cheek. "Qin Lin, you're so annoying."

Later, Jiang Ning was brought home by a childhood friend, reeking of alcohol. Qin Lin opened the door and caught her.

He carried her to bed, then crouched in front of her and looked at her face. With a helpless sigh, he said, "Ningning, don't hate me."

"I just want you to make love to me."

Years ago, Qin Lin met a young girl at a banquet. She stood onstage in a beautiful evening gown, her smile bright and dazzling.

One glance was all it took to haunt him for years.

Later, the first girl he ever loved became his wife.

// Qin Lin woke in a haven of tenderness and saw the girl in his arms sprawled over him like an octopus. He couldn't help laughing.

His arm tightened around her waist, and a gentle kiss fell on her hair.

Cherished and beloved.

For the first time, he understood how beautiful it was to have a wish come true.

Reading Guide: Blurb written on 2025.10.8 (screenshot saved)

1. Both leads are virgins, and each is the other's first love.

2. A light, sweet romance where everything serves the love story, a grown-up fairy tale.

3. Six-year age gap; the man has a secret crush on her.

4. Some details are fictionalized. If you spot any mistakes in the professional details, please point them out gently~

I wandered alone through the years, until I met you.

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Blurb:

Heiress x Knight

Childhood Friends | Reunited After a Breakup | Romantic Tension | Devoted Knight

1. The day Ji Shuran first met Jin Xun was her tenth birthday.

A boy in shabby clothes, thin as a rail, was led up to her by her father.

Ji Shuran looked at the filthy boy, who was a head taller than her, with distaste.

"Dad, who is he?"

Her father smiled gently. "Ranran, from now on, Xiaoxun will be your little brother."

"My little brother?"

Ji Shuran looked disgusted. "He's so dirty. I don't want him."

Then she saw the boy lower his head, his cracked hands gripping the hem of his clothes.

Pitiful and insecure.

2. Jin Xun came to live with Ji Shuran when he was nine. The first time he saw her, he hurriedly lowered his head.

He had never seen such a beautiful girl, like one of the dolls he'd seen in shop windows, exquisite from head to toe.

But he also knew the young mistress didn't like him, so he obeyed the Ji family's rules, carried out the tasks her father gave him, and stayed by Ji Shuran's side.

He just didn't know that staying by her side would cost him his whole life.

3. The young mistress was spoiled, loved to cry, and was a liar.

After the college entrance exam, Ji Shuran celebrated his seventeenth birthday with him in the courtyard.

She smiled gently, her lovely eyes fixed on him without blinking.

"Jin Xun, happy birthday."

"Work hard. I'll be waiting for you at Peking University."

Later, the young mistress secretly applied to Sichuan University without telling anyone.

All so she could get away from him.

That was the first time Jin Xun realized she really didn't want him.

4. No one expected disaster to strike the Ji family. The vast family fortune went up in flames overnight.

Just before Ji Shuran passed out in the fire, someone lifted her by the shoulders.

She heard anguished sobbing by her ear, and tears fell onto her face.

She woke up in the hospital a month later.

Someone gave her a bank card, but she didn't know it contained all of Jin Xun's savings.

She never saw Jin Xun again.

Until a business collaboration brought her face-to-face with the man she hadn't seen in five years.

A scar now marked his brow, and his features had grown sharper.

His gaze was as calm and gentle as before.

"Miss Ji, long time no see." Those were his first words after their reunion.

Ji Shuran suddenly realized that, in fact, they really had gone a long time without speaking.

Drunk one night, Ji Shuran lay across the man's broad back, her face buried in the crook of his neck.

Her hand touched the raised scar at the back of his neck, and tears streamed uncontrollably down her face.

"Jin Xun, does it hurt?"

When that beam fell on you that year, did it hurt?

"No."

Not as much as when you left me.

//

"All these years, I understood the love you kept silent."

From then on, the boy I'd once looked down on became the love of my life.

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