A Private Fairy Tale

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[The male lead has secretly loved the female lead for many years. He is a pure-hearted, love-struck young nobleman from Beijing's elite circle who pretends to be poor for love and acts cold toward everyone else x a rational, plan-oriented heroine who doesn't dream of being Cinderella]

For the first twenty-some years of her life, Yan Li did everything according to plan. Practical and realistic about herself, she lived a very orderly life. When she turned twenty-five, she decided it was time to start dating, and that the best choice for her was to find another office worker from out of town, like herself, and build a life together.

Perhaps Heaven was looking out for her, because a man really did fall in love with her at first sight.

He was handsome and refined, dressed neatly, and, like her, an office worker from an ordinary family who had come to Beijing to make a living.

As they spent time together, Yan Li found her boyfriend sincere, gentle, and polite. She was very pleased with him.

The only thing she wasn't quite happy about was that her boyfriend didn't like splitting expenses with her. He kept spending money on her, even paying the rent himself.

Yan Li wasn't used to owing people favors, so she quietly put the corresponding amount of money on a separate bank card, planning to give it to him whenever he needed it.

Then one day, her best friend secretly filmed the heir to LM Group, the handsome investor rumored to be breathtakingly beautiful and worth hundreds of millions, and sent the video to her.

In the video, the man wore a suit and tie, his expression distant and cold as he spoke solemnly about LM Group's corporate culture.

Yan Li's best friend also sent her a WeChat message.

[He is handsome, but not very approachable. I heard that a certain company director's beautiful daughter cornered him this morning and confessed her love in public. He just said coldly, "If people at your company can't keep business and personal matters separate, then LM Group will carefully reconsider whether to continue investing in your company." The director was so frightened that he grabbed his daughter's head and made her apologize over and over...]

This time, Yan Li didn't reply for a long while. Her brows suddenly drew together.

Wasn't this the sweet boyfriend who got up at five in the morning to make her breakfast, and even added two heart-shaped eggs just for her?

Yan Li had never dreamed of being Cinderella. She planned to break up with him that very day.

But when she got home, she ran into her drunk boyfriend. He was clutching a carrot-shaped plush toy about as tall as she was, his face red as he murmured,

"Li Li, please don't look down on me for being rich, okay?"

"I'll give you all my property in the future. There won't be any wealthy-family grudges, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law conflicts, or melodramatic misunderstandings... Please don't look down on me..."

"When I love you, I'm simply being myself."

Yan Li rested a hand against the doorframe. In the end, she couldn't bring herself to say the words about breaking up.

Later, when her boyfriend found out that Yan Li had once considered breaking up with him, that night he transformed from his usual gentle self into a wolf. With a dark expression, he breathed against Yan Li's flushed earlobe and whispered,

"Li Li, do you still want to leave?"

"Is there something about me you're unhappy with?"

[The blurb was screenshotted on 2023.1.11]

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Blurb:

From childhood, Yu Wanwan had a recurring dream. In it, she eloped with Lin Chaosheng, her former fiance and a powerful minister who had fled the capital with her. She lost her chastity, and her loving father had no choice but to help the faction supporting Lin Chaosheng's patron, the First Prince, contend for the throne.

But after the First Prince successfully ascended the throne and Lin Chaosheng regained power, he married the woman he had always loved and made Yu Wanwan his concubine. After that, Yu Wanwan and Lin Chaosheng went through a torturous romance that wounded both body and heart. She lost her voice, miscarried, and her father died on the battlefield. Her older brother was not only left disabled, but also died with a grievance. At last, Lin Chaosheng finally came to his senses and realized that Yu Wanwan was the one he loved most. He made her his co-wife, enjoying the blessings of having two wives.

In the dream, Yu Wanwan was also the object of a mad, obsessive villain's love.

Meng Lu, the Grand Commander, commanded an army of three hundred thousand, held power over the entire court, and was ruthless and merciless.

Meng Lu seized her three times. Each time, he gripped her wrist, his foxlike eyes filled with a dark, intoxicated gleam as he spoke as tenderly as a lover.

"Marry me, or die with me?"

The Yu Wanwan in the dream resisted him to the bitter end.

But in the end, Meng Lu couldn't bring himself to let Yu Wanwan die.

He knew it was a trap, yet for Yu Wanwan's sake he surrendered his military command and even betrayed his master, all for the sake of her deceitful, insincere promise: "If you surrender your troops and open the city gates, I'll marry you."

When they drank their nuptial wine, he knew it was poisoned. But Yu Wanwan had fed it to him with her own hands, so he took a sip and kissed her. Yu Wanwan was startled, thinking Meng Lu meant for them to die together. But he only brushed her lips lightly, then smiled and died in her arms.

When Yu Wanwan woke with a start, she remembered Meng Lu, but didn't understand why they had been like that in her dream.

Because from the very first time she saw Meng Lu, she had already fallen for him.

Then the System from the book suppressed her self-awareness and forced her to follow the plot. When she was on the verge of eloping with Lin Chaosheng, Yu Wanwan was filled with despair.

Suddenly, a cool hand clamped around her waist, and a voice as cold as a wintry forest said,

"Wanwan, where do you think you're going?"

Lin Chaosheng, who had arrived a step too late, went pale.

But in Meng Lu's arms, Yu Wanwan's eyes... suddenly lit up.

[The heroine gets snatched right at the beginning~]

[In short, it's the story of a crazy male lead who snatches the woman he thinks doesn't love him, but who actually loves him deeply.]

[Fake coercive courtship, but truly a mutual romance and a story of salvation.]

[My upcoming sweet romance, "Peach Cravings," is open for advance reservations. If you're interested, check it out in the author's profile~]

Blurb:

[Charming sweetheart heroine x aloof nobleman male lead]

[Also known as "After Pretending to Be His Fake Girlfriend, His Aloof Older Brother Fell for Me, and He Went Crazy Night After Night"]

The Guan family unquestionably holds a central place among Beijing's elite. The eldest son, Guan Chen, is the dream of countless young women.

But Guan Chen is cold and distant, hard to approach, like a flower on a high mountain that can only be admired from afar.

No one expected a man like Guan Chen to secretly grow jealous over a woman, get drunk night after night, and suppress his madness.

Because of her family's debts, Yun Tao agreed to her rich friend’s request to find a "fake girlfriend on contract" to make his ex-girlfriend jealous.

Everything about this "job" was great, except that her friend's older brother, Guan Chen, the most famous aloof nobleman in the capital's wealthy circles, thought she was vain and never seemed to like her. He would look at her coldly for no reason, especially when she and her friend pretended to "show off their love" in front of other people. Guan Chen would watch from the side with an unreadable expression, apparently thinking she wasn't reserved and demure enough.

Then her friend's ex-girlfriend finally got jealous enough to ask her friend to get back together.

Yun Tao prepared to put on a convincing final breakup scene, crying so hard her tears would soak her cheeks. She even chose a rainy day to set the mood.

But just as the tears she'd forced out by pinching her thigh were still welling in her eyes, an umbrella suddenly appeared over her head. Guan Chen's low voice, seemingly laced with a certain obsessive madness, slowly rang in her ear.

"How about considering me?"

Yun Tao: ???!!!

While Yun Tao was still pretending to be her friend's girlfriend, the Guan family's housekeeper watched her striking, beautiful face from a distance and smiled.

"Miss Yun certainly has the face to be called Madam Guan."

At the time, Guan Chen seemed to casually glance toward Yun Tao in the distance. His eyes were dark, their depths seeming to hold a secret, restrained delight and madness.

The words "Madam Guan" sounded very nice.

Other completed novels by Zhi Zhi:

"The Love-Struck Supporting Female Character Gets Spoiled by the On-Screen Comments": The heroine's beloved has actually been secretly in love with me?

"Transmigrated into the Obsessed Villain's Beloved Cat": Villain x sweet girl, a mutually healing, silly and sweet romance.

"After Losing My Memory, I Fell for the Wrong Person (Historical)": A sweet, innocent beauty x a cool, refined young nobleman, both secretly in love.

"After Transmigrating as the Male Supporting Character Disguised as a Man (Book Transmigration)": I transmigrated as the heroine's beloved "white moonlight male supporting character," only to find myself disguised as a man?!

"Every Rebirth Is Unspeakable": I discovered that the aloof beauty has a secret crush on me?

"I Fell in Love with My Rival's Beloved": A sweet and satisfying face-slapping story about putting scumbags in their place.

"The Cold Male God Longs for a Dramatic Romance": A silly, funny, sweet story. The male god keeps imagining that I have a crush on him. What should I do?

"Island Indulgence": An urban sweet romance, a retired special forces soldier x a cool beauty, on a thrilling island adventure.

Theme: Good love helps both people become better, break through their obstacles, and live as their true selves.