Hard to Handle [Marriage Before Love]

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[New novel, Starry Wilderness: a pseudo-sibling romance about stealing someone else's partner. Please add it to your collection. The blurb is at the very end~]

A cool, difficult heiress × a powerful tycoon who fights and schemes for what he wants

Marriage first, love later / Stealing someone else's partner / A person in power lowering his head for love / Age gap

Si Fan is a mermaid covered in sharp spines.

She swims through the cutthroat world of fame and fortune in Shanghai, cool and difficult to approach.

In less than three months after joining Meifan, she sent three executives to jail.

Everyone cursed her behind her back, saying she threw her weight around on the strength of the Si family's name, but was really just an illegitimate child with no recognized status, unfit to appear in public.

That is, until rumors spread that she had offended Lu Yanshi.

Lu Yanshi was a barren desert.

The heir to the Lu family of Shanghai, a ruthless man returned from overseas, cold and heartless, and notorious for his womanizing ways.

Those who had cursed her eagerly waited to see her scales torn off and her bones crushed, until she became a laughingstock.

The first time, he cornered her by the stairwell. "Do you like Second Young Master Lu?"

Si Fan: A handsome face wasted on someone with so little sense.

The second time, he cornered her at an amusement park. "You can like someone else. I don't mind."

Si Fan: A nice voice, but an appalling character.

The third time, he pinned her to a table. "Dump him... I can satisfy you better than he can."

Si Fan: Not only clueless and appalling, he's a lunatic too.

Lu Yanshi pursued her for more than half a month without getting anywhere. Instead, he watched her grow ever more affectionate with her "boyfriend."

Later on,

Everyone saw that womanizer in his suit and tie, cornering her with red-rimmed eyes as he asked:

"I've been pursuing you for two months and thirteen days. I've given you my heart, and I... want to give you my body too. When do I get my turn?"

Everyone: "...??"

Wasn't he supposed to toy with her and then dump her??

·

When you decide to swim into my world, the barren desert becomes its one and only oasis.

Blurb for Starry Wilderness. Please add it to your collection~

After ten years of secretly loving him, every flutter of Qin Xing's youth belonged to Qi Wang.

She thought being favored meant being loved.

Only later did she realize that favoritism could also be an illusion, unrelated to love.

From beginning to end, it had been nothing but the girlish longing of a girl in love on her own.

Like being drenched in an endless tide of rain.

·

On the night of her twenty-third birthday, a friend asked what she had wished for.

Qin Xing looked up and met Qi Wang's gaze. After a brief pause, she looked at the person beside him:

"Let go of wishful thinking and start over."

·

At eighteen, Qin Xing was the distant, starry wilderness he never dared to covet.

At twenty-three, she was the radiant starry wilderness he would scheme and struggle to hold in his arms.

Don't look at him.

Please, fall for me one more time.

Pseudo-siblings / The regretful pursuit of a lost love / Stealing someone else's partner

Mutual secret love finally fulfilled / The male lead finds redemption

Both virgins / Happy ending / Six-year age gap

[Reading Guide]

1. One-on-one romance, both virgins, happy ending. Sweet, indulgent wish fulfillment, with the person in power lowering his head for love. Seven-year age gap.

2. The female lead does not have a boyfriend.

She is not a real intern. She is aloof and disillusioned at first, then soft and protective of her own.

The male lead is scheming and acts innocent at first. Later, he becomes an obsessive, love-struck lunatic with a strong possessive streak. He can be submissive, cry, and act adorable.

3. They had a brief encounter when they were young and meet again five years later.

The story will gradually reveal what happened during their earlier encounter.

4. The story includes fictional details, and all place names are invented.

Blurb captured and saved on 2026.2.2

Theme: Love means unconditional support and having someone's back