Addicted to the Worst

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[My next novel, How Can I Marry My Ex? is a second-chance romance. If you’re interested, please add it to your favorites!]

[Sweet romance / marriage first, love later from the heroine’s perspective / long-planned pursuit from the hero’s perspective / gentle heroine trains her dog in the middle and later parts / size difference / chasing his wife / a love like a home invasion]

The Jian family business had run into serious trouble recently, and Old Jian had worked himself into the hospital.

The entire burden of the company fell on Jian Yunyi, but her hands, made for painting, could hardly prop up the business as it teetered on the brink.

After working herself ragged with little to show for it, Jian Yunyi had no choice but to set her sights on a man she had only met a few times at the hospital.

On a tree-lined path in the hospital’s VIP wing,

she gathered her courage and stood before him, speaking softly. “Mr. Wen, I heard you’re looking for someone to marry.”

“...We... could make a deal.”

Cicadas chirred in the height of summer, yet the man’s gaze was cold and heavy, his dark eyes an unfathomable abyss. He was impossible to read.

Jian Yunyi was so unnerved by his presence that she wanted to back out.

Just as she thought there was no way forward, the man gently rubbed the Mobius ring on his finger and said coldly:

“Miss Jian, I’m getting married so my father won’t die with regrets.”

“A deal has to be something both parties want.”

Jian Yunyi had heard about Wen Lie long ago.

He was the Song family’s illegitimate son, abandoned overseas. Yet just a few months earlier, he had stormed back into Yucheng and become the new head of the Song family.

People said he was ruthless and sinister, decisive to the point of showing no mercy even to his own father.

But what Jian Yunyi saw at the hospital was a man who stayed by his father’s bedside and personally pushed the wheelchair, taking his father, who had suffered a stroke and could no longer speak, downstairs to enjoy the sun.

She thought, seeing is believing.

What she didn’t know was that after leaving the tree-lined path that day, the tall man in the black suit leaned down in front of the wheelchair. The corner of his mouth lifted, but no warmth reached his eyes.

He raised a hand to straighten his collar and looked at the middle-aged man glaring at him helplessly, his voice dripping with scorn.

“Who knew you’d still be of some use?”

Reader’s Guide:

1. Marriage first, love later from the heroine’s perspective, a long-planned pursuit from the hero’s perspective.

2. Both are sexually inexperienced. The hero is pure from head to toe, right down to every strand of hair.

3. The hero has little sense of morality, but he knows how to pretend. You can insult him, but don’t insult the heroine. Whatever the heroine does is understandable.

4. Though she trains her dog, the heroine isn’t a domineering type. She’s a gentle girl who trains her dog.

5. The hero is the very lustful type.

[Second-chance romance coming soon: How Can I Marry My Ex? Please add it to your favorites! Blurb below.]

[Second chance at love + tough words, soft heart + reunion after years apart]

[Kind, resilient travel company itinerary planner x domineering CEO who acts tough but spirals into darkness when his wife is gone]

In the fifth year after breaking up with Xu Yi, Cheng Er’an returned to Jingxi City for a job transfer.

Her new position was much like her old one, and she settled in quickly.

Until

At a dinner with clients, she accidentally drank something spiked. In her panic, a tall figure caught and steadied her.

The man stood tall and straight, but her mind was hazy and she couldn’t make out his face. She could only rely on instinct and ask for help.

“Please...”

“...Take me to the hospital...”

With a kind stranger’s help, Cheng Er’an escaped unharmed.

But when she woke up at the hospital, someone tossed a folder onto her bed.

The file was titled in four large characters: “Prenuptial Agreement.”

And standing before her was Xu Yi, his face cold and sharp.

“Miss Cheng agreed to it last night. You’re not going to back out, are you?”

“We’ve already broken up.”

“Xu Yi, I don’t make a habit of marrying my exes.”

Cheng Er’an refused calmly.

But the man’s voice was icy. “Miss Cheng, don’t flatter yourself.”

“It’s just a matter of acting in a little charade with me...”

He hadn’t finished the last two words when a child suddenly rushed into the hospital room.

The child flung themself at Cheng Er’an on the bed and cried out in a childish voice,

“Mommy!”

Xu Yi froze as if struck by lightning, his face turning ghastly.

She was married?

She had a child?

Then what did that make me?

An ex-boyfriend turned homewrecker?

[Reader’s Guide]

1. A travel company itinerary planner, also known as a travel operations specialist, is generally responsible for designing travel products, writing itineraries, calculating quotes, confirming group bookings, handling complaints, and managing and analyzing sales.

2. The hero is tough-talking but soft-hearted (only toward the heroine), easily shaken (only by the heroine), and starved for love (only from the heroine).

3. This novel is also known as He’s Not Breaking Down for the First Time and Ding! A CEO Having a Meltdown Has Arrived.

4. The heroine did not run away while pregnant! She did not run away while pregnant! She did not run away while pregnant! (Repeating this three times for emphasis.)

5. The hero talks tough early on. You can insult him, but don’t insult the heroine. Whatever she does is understandable.

6. Both are sexually inexperienced, in every sense of the word.

7. The title is from the hero’s perspective, but the story is mainly told from the heroine’s.

Theme: No matter how many years pass, love endures.