A Marriage Between Powerful Families

Coming soon: "It Rained in Jingbei". Please add it to your favorites!

[An heiress who loves spending money x a sly big boss who knows how to make it]

[1]

Yan Chuxi was known as the most beautiful and most expensive heiress in Beijing's elite circles. Everyone wondered who could afford to marry this lavish, money-guzzling flower of high society.

Then one day, news broke that the Yan and Yan families were joining forces through marriage.

Everyone was surprised, though it seemed perfectly reasonable.

As the leading figure among Beijing's elite, Yan Shu certainly had the means to support this money-printing heiress.

But everyone assumed their marriage was just another unspoken business arrangement in the world of fame and fortune.

They also figured that after the wedding, the couple would simply keep up appearances while each played their own high-society games.

Then one day, an entire row of sales associates stood in Beijing's biggest shopping district, respectfully introducing the season's new arrivals to Yan Chuxi.

The big boss casually spent tens of millions, gazing at her with tender affection.

"Feeling better? If that's not enough, I'll buy you a few hundred million more."

[2]

As one of Beijing's most powerful families, the Yan family wielded considerable influence. Yan Shu, its head, had always been expected to achieve great things.

But he never expected that, while expanding the family's business empire, his progress would be brought to a halt by pressure to get married.

After being urged to marry time and again, Yan Shu finally went on a blind date.

In a lavishly decorated restaurant, a woman in a green spaghetti-strap dress sat beneath the lights. Her long, jade-like fingers gleamed, yet even they could not outshine her sparkling eyes.

"You're the best-looking person I've met on a blind date," she said as soon as she saw him.

Yan Shu returned the compliment. "You're the prettiest woman I've ever met, too."

Yan Chuxi laughed. "So we both think the other one is good-looking. Why not just get married for our families' sake?"

"You're pretty rich, so supporting me should be easy. I'll need at least ten handbags, ten outfits, and ten pairs of shoes every month, plus a few trips abroad and a few visits to auctions..." Yan Chuxi blinked. "So, will you marry me?"

My next novel will be "It Rained in Jingbei". Here's the blurb. Please add it to your favorites!

[1]

I first met Shi Huailan on a rainy day in New York.

At the time, Zhu Yuan was in the United States as an exchange student from Jing University. After finishing her project, she was invited by her doctoral advisor to attend a celebration banquet.

Neon lights shimmered, glasses clinked, and elegant figures mingled. Amid all that glittering splendor, the only person she could see was Shi Huailan.

The man wore gold-rimmed glasses. His dark eyes were as cool as water, and light glinted off his lenses.

One glance was enough to make people feel intimidated, yet unable to look away.

He wasn't supposed to be the star of the banquet, but somehow everyone was looking at him.

After the banquet, Zhu Yuan worked up the courage to approach him.

But the man replied in a cool voice, deliberately keeping his distance.

"Who are you?"

Only later did she learn that this seemingly distant, aloof man held immense power.

Like a long stretch of rainy weather, he affected everyone's mood without even trying.

[2]

She and Shi Huailan crossed paths because of a scheme. She knew his background, and he knew what she was after.

She never expected that, after their bitter falling-out, they would meet again at a major conference.

When she saw Shi Huailan again, he seemed even more composed and sharp. His gaze held a deep chill of estrangement, as though all the sweet words they'd once shared had been no more than a dream.

She poured him a glass of warm water. As he took it, their fingertips touched. She looked into his clear eyes and froze.

When the meeting ended, Shi Huailan stopped her. His eyes fixed on her, his voice calm and quiet.

"Do you still love me?"

She suddenly remembered the day they broke up, when the man had spoken with absolute calm.

"The struggle for power will drag countless people into it."

"I hope you never get caught up in that whirlpool."

[An older man who bows his head for love.]

Theme: Striving to improve

2":"[Sorry, this will be locked once the time is up.]

Song Tingyi was the pampered young master of the Song family, doted on by everyone.

At nineteen, he was still used to being carried around by his childhood friend, sitting on his lap with their fingers interlaced, like a fragile, beautiful doll.

People were always wondering if their intimacy crossed the line...

His childhood friend installed a tracker on Song Tingyi's new phone and coolly said, "I'm straight."

Song Tingyi wrapped his arms around his friend's neck, chin resting in the hollow of his shoulder. "It's brotherly affection. He's like an older brother to me, even though we're not related."

It was a special, twisted, strange relationship.

That long-standing closeness finally broke when a dream on the eve of Song Tingyi's birthday shattered the status quo.

*

Song Tingyi dreamed he was the fake young master in a melodramatic story about a fake and a real heir, the kind of story you'd find on Huashi.

He was a despised, hated cannon-fodder villain. Not only would the Song family kick him out, leaving him destitute and buried in debt, but a powerful heir's suitor would throw him into the sea to feed the sharks.

...So it was a horror story!

Even more horrifying, the most powerful and influential of those suitors was the person he had a crush on: Lu Heng, his childhood friend, a straight man who was intensely homophobic.

Song Tingyi: o.0???

What happened to him being homophobic?

As the original story's protagonist's destined partner, he naturally had to stay chaste. Once he met the protagonist, he wouldn't be homophobic anymore, and he wouldn't be able to resist his desires, either.

Song Tingyi: Bro, you're acting out of character!

But his life mattered more, so he would "stay in line and behave himself," follow the plot, and do his best to keep away from Lu Heng. He didn't want to end up as cannon fodder, QAQ.

But Lu Heng was too perceptive. He had severe skin hunger and would go crazy if he didn't see Song Tingyi for even one day.

Luckily, though progress was slow, there was still hope.

So when Lu Heng caught his lower lip between his own and sucked on it, Song Tingyi trembled. Wait, was this really the plotline for a cannon-fodder character like him?!

Song Tingyi hid in a wardrobe with nowhere else to go. Lu Heng coaxed and dragged him out, holding him close, his body burning hot and his eyes bloodshot. "Baby, give me a kiss. I won't go in."

Liar.

Song Tingyi was kissed until he was thoroughly undone.

*

Song Tingyi hadn't even gotten his villain plan on track before he wore himself sick.

Being a villain was so exhausting. Song Tingyi decided to lie flat and let himself be squeezed and fussed over. The sooner he died, the sooner he could be reborn. He'd try harder to get a good life next time.

But after he gave up, the plot went completely off the rails...

Song Tingyi was supposed to go from a high-and-mighty young master to a penniless, abandoned son.

But now: The real young master shyly told him that Song Tingyi was his muse.

The Song family sent their eldest son to sabotage the marriage alliance, vowing to win back their beautiful, well-behaved darling.

Lu Heng acted restrained. In front of Song Tingyi's fiance, he was aloof and cold.

Behind the scenes, he was gnashing his teeth, burning with jealousy.

"When are you going to end the marriage alliance?"

Lu Heng rubbed his sprained ankle and smiled, his meaning unclear. "Baby, you'd look good in a collar."

Song Tingyi, whose lips were swollen and numb from all the kissing, thought indignantly, "...Heh. Ask my husband."

Lu Heng: #HelpMyWifeWontDivorceSomeoneElse #FastestWayForTheOtherManToTakeOver

A delicate, pretty, easygoing slacker x an obsessive, possessive man

Reader's guide:

1. Sweet romance. CP: Lu Heng. The recipient has a secret crush; the pursuer dotes on him. Older man/younger man.

2. The protagonist is mildly popular with everyone, has a sickly constitution, and there are a few scenes of him dressing as a woman and some forum-style posts. The pursuer has flaws, but at heart he's just a love-struck, obsessive dog of a man.

3. No secondary couples. Fake marriage alliance.

4. A silly, lighthearted comedy that won't stand up to the slightest scrutiny ><

I'll add more if I think of anything. Love you all! Thanks for adding it to your favorites!

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Please add my upcoming novel "A Pretty, Foolish Gold Digger Doted on by a Daddy-Type" to your favorites!

A poor, pretty, foolish gold digger x a slightly unhinged older daddy-type

Shu Xing was an utterly ordinary bookworm, with old-fashioned black-rimmed glasses on his nose and conservative clothes that covered him up from head to toe all year round. There wasn't a single thing about him that stood out.

Yet somehow, this country bumpkin had a handsome, generous, rich second-generation boyfriend.

And the rich boy had even pursued him first. Everyone said Shu Xing was an honest guy with incredible luck.

Shu Xing said nothing: ovo

No one knew that every night, when he returned to his dorm, he took off his glasses and changed into women's clothes.

He revealed a pretty, innocent face and called out "big brother" and "hubby" in a sugary voice as he thanked the viewers for the gifts they sent in the livestream.

He'd only accepted the rich boy's advances because they each got something out of it.

Shu Xing was after his money, while the rich boy loved that his face resembled the woman he could never forget.

*

Eventually, Shu Xing could no longer put up with the rich boy's possessiveness and broke up with him.

But he was forced to drink alcohol laced with drugs and blindfolded. He was told that he wouldn't be released until he admitted he was wrong.

Shu Xing knew how to adapt. Inwardly, he cursed the man and every generation of his ancestors, but outwardly he acted sweet and weak, making himself look pitiful. He admitted he was wrong before the drugs even took effect.

But he couldn't see.

A man now stood before him, dressed in a suit, cool and handsome, exuding an intimidating pressure.

But he wasn't Shu Xing's boyfriend.

The man's scrutinizing gaze fell on Shu Xing's porcelain-white skin and crimson lips.

Delicate and fragile, achingly lovely.

When the blindfold was removed, Shu Xing stared blankly at him. He looked a little like that rich idiot.

With tears in his eyes, Shu Xing said, "Hubby, you got plastic surgery and didn't even tell me."

The man said coldly, "Have you gotten enough out of him? Now you're trying to seduce me?"

Shu Xing was a little slow on the uptake.

One minute later.

The man gripped his waist and kissed him urgently and deeply, his tongue entwined with Shu Xing's.

Shu Xing was completely dumbfounded.

*

Pei Yichuan, head of the Pei family, was decisive and ruthless, cold-hearted and hard-nosed. Everyone was afraid of him.

He couldn't stand seeing his nephew recently become infatuated with a vain, money-hungry gold digger, so he decided to meet the gold digger himself.

As expected.

This gold digger was money-grubbing. Once he realized Pei Yichuan was richer than his nephew, he drugged his drink and deliberately tried to seduce him.

Pei Yichuan never denied himself what he wanted.

Shu Xing's pale hands clung to him, then fell away helplessly as tears welled up.

The older man was a terrible lover, silent and focused on the task at hand.

Shu Xing's plan backfired before he knew it, and he was taken advantage of for an entire night.

When he woke the next morning, the older man said casually, "Break up with Pei X, and I'll agree to it."

Shu Xing: ...???

"Uncle, aren't you straight?!"

A poor, pretty, foolish gold digger x a slightly unhinged older daddy-type

1. Sweet romance. The pursuer is sexually pure. Still deciding how many years older he is, but it's definitely an older man/younger man pairing! The pursuer dotes on the recipient.

2. The protagonist is mildly popular with everyone.

3. The title and blurb may be tweaked a little before the novel starts.

Theme: Face adversity bravely