I'll Take Your Girlfriend

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*At first they aren't close and treat each other with formal courtesy, but they still fulfill their marital obligations

*Later, love slowly develops amid their ordinary days

Y2K female editor at a publishing house and a self-conscious, impossibly handsome older big shot from Beijing's elite circle

Wen Zhangming struggles to sense other people's true feelings, including Yuchuang Yue's love for him. As a result, even after years of marriage, he believes his wife doesn't love him.

Aside from his money and power, he has no advantage over the other men around her. His looks have deteriorated with age.

But his wife is in the prime of her youth.

Beforehand.

"Having sex with me won't be tiring. I'm already in my thirties."

Afterward.

"You took medicine beforehand, didn't you?"

According to Yuchuang Yue, the first time she met this man was already in the third year of their marriage, even though to outsiders they seemed to treat each other with formal courtesy.

In the bitter cold of winter, at the entrance to the Laofoye department store, her famous-writer boyfriend abruptly broke up with her. She cried like something out of a midnight horror story.

A man appeared then, holding a black umbrella.

He kindly offered to take her home. He looked harmless, mature, and dependable.

She walked through the front door, and he followed right behind.

"What, are you coming in too?"

"The place you live in is my family's ancestral home."

He has a special status, little cash on hand, and shares in his name that can't easily be moved. The only suitable thing he has to offer as a betrothal gift is his family's ancestral courtyard house, worth 200 million.

Since it's his family's ancestral home, she has no reason to kick him out.

Marriage first, love later | Age gap | Self-conscious older man | Guiding lover | Rabbit-and-wolf fairy tale

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The Prestigious Family

In a sentence: The new housekeeper is the gentleman's secret crush

Hong Kong setting | Seven-year age gap | Height difference: 189 cm and 164 cm | Different in private and in public | Sweet and bittersweet tension | Happy ending

Young female housekeeper X Hong Kong tycoon

This week's trending news: The wealthy Leung family in Hong Kong is offering a million-dollar salary for a housekeeper, possibly a job tailored for a specific candidate.

Requirements: Female, Chinese, born in the Year of the Rabbit, under thirty, and a graduate of a renowned European university.

Wen Dong is that crisp, fresh carrot: pale skin, sweet flesh, and full of juice. She doesn't see herself that way.

She arrives at the Peak and meets the young head of the Leung family, Leung Qianan, the most powerful man in Hong Kong. He has influence everywhere, and is dignified, magnanimous, and refined.

He glances at her and asks, "Name."

"Wen Dong."

He doesn't remember her, but she recognizes him at a glance.

The first time she met Leung Qianan was five years ago, when she stood in as a guide at the school history museum. He was an investor from Hong Kong.

The tour had been arranged specifically for him. She stumbled through her explanations, too nervous to look him in the eye, and he left before she had finished.

He dropped his handkerchief. She picked it up and returned it to him, noticing the disgust in his eyes.

"I don't want it."

Just because her hand had touched it, he was willing to throw away an expensive handkerchief.

Everyone knows this place except Wen Dong: a mansion halfway up the mountain, with 50,000 square feet and an unobstructed view of Victoria Harbour.

"The new housekeeper is the gentleman's secret crush."

His kind, upright, gentlemanly, and gentle act falls apart halfway through. His true self is cruel, sinister, and wildly possessive. And it seems he's not the only one in the household watching Wen Dong with hungry eyes.

A respectable forensic doctor, a rakish young master, and a blind sculptor: they're all younger brothers he cherishes.

"Three years ago, you said you'd take responsibility for me. Why did you disappear as soon as you pulled your skirt back on?"

She didn't do it on purpose.

Theme: May everything find its perfect ending.