[Marriage first, love later | Long-planned romance | Older man | Mutual secret crushes]
*The leads are three years apart in age // Happy ending // Both are virgins // 1v1
The second book in the Yujin series
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· A fake-gentleman, genuinely scheming and calculating renowned business magnate × a clever, lively, and resilient genius pianist
Ruan Qingyan and Ji Anbei's reunion after years apart was as romantic and unexpected as something out of a novel.
At the charity gala, she assumed that after all these years, he'd long since forgotten their encounter when they were young.
But she never expected Ji Anbei to approach her first and greet her with a smile.
She answered him flustered, thinking it was nothing more than a polite exchange between passing acquaintances. She assumed that after this, they would go their separate ways and never cross paths again...
But a blind date just a few days later brought their fates together once more.
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Ruan Qingyan's twenty-third blind date finally had a result. The man was the boy she'd secretly loved for eight years.
They agreed to hold their wedding two months later, never realizing that Ji Anbei had planned it all long in advance.
She thought they were simply getting what they wanted from each other, and that after the wedding they could treat each other with mutual respect and keep things formal.
But Ji Anbei gradually won his way into her heart.
She knew the barriers between them weren't limited to their "contract marriage." There was also the white moonlight she'd never met. So she kept forcing herself not to fall too deeply, and avoided him again and again.
It wasn't until an in-person promotional event, when Ji Anbei risked his life to shield her from danger, that Ruan Qingyan realized there had never been any white moonlight. It was just a misunderstanding she'd imagined, trapped in the obsession of her eight-year secret crush.
Every look Ji Anbei gave her held a depth of love she'd never dared hope for.
When he shielded her from a fan sign hurled toward them, it left a long gash across his back. Yet he smiled and reached up to wipe the tears from her face. "Why are you crying? I'm fine. My Ruanruan can't get hurt."
Only then did Ruan Qingyan realize that what she'd been avoiding all along wasn't the constraints of a contract marriage. She was afraid to believe that the feelings she'd kept hidden for eight years could be returned so passionately.
Ji Anbei's gradual campaign to win her over was never a scheme. It was the sincere desire he'd kept inside for ten years, the longing to be close to her.
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You'll meet that ray of light eventually.
Sooner or later.
That's right. Sooner or later.
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For Ji Anbei, it all began when he was seventeen.
That was the year he met his own ray of light: Ruan Qingyan.
But he knew perfectly well that he and she belonged to different worlds, so he buried his youthful feelings for her deep in his heart.
Years later, Ji Anbei met her again.
By then, he was her blind date. He'd built his company from nothing and was now the founder of SR Group. He planned every step, long having schemed to bring her to his side.
But he never imagined that she, too, had secretly loved him.
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Ji Anbei: "Hesitate and you lose, but you won't lose to Ji Anbei."
"With me, the winner has always been you, Ruan Qingyan."
Ruan Qingyan: "Losing doesn't mean running away before the battle. It means losing to Ji Anbei."
"No. With me, Ruan Qingyan will always lose to Ji Anbei."
[Note: There is absolutely no ambiguity about her having gone on 23 blind dates!!! It's simply because our heroine didn't like any of them!!!!]
Message: Love makes us brave.
