As Sweet as You

[Complete. My next novels, Meet the Eastern Palace and A Whole Summer of Youth, are available to add to your favorites on my profile.]

A sweet post-marriage romance with a five-year age gap

-Gentle, scheming, obsessive dentist x aloof, alluring beauty from the mathematics department

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What Zhong Ying doesn't know is that marriage is one part of the elaborate trap Chen Qing'an laid for her.

She has long been his white moonlight, and his prized possession.

She has always thought her married life with Chen Qing'an is going pretty well.

Though their love could use a little more spark, he's reliable as a live-in roommate, an older brother, or a husband.

Until one day, she accidentally learns the truth.

The collapse of her failed flirtation, and the gathering where she first "happened" to meet Chen Qing'an,

were both arranged by her gentle, refined husband.

That night, Zhong Ying raced home to confront him.

Chen Qing'an quietly listened to her accusations, then replied with the same indulgent patience as always: "You don't like people getting too close, so we'll keep things calm between us. You don't want to talk about love, so I won't bring it up."

"I can be whatever you like."

Chen Qing'an smoothed her disheveled hair and asked with a smile, "Yingying, isn't this nice?"

A handsome, mild-mannered dentist with a doctorate, secretly cunning and shameless VS an aloof, alluring femme fatale, a mathematics beauty with a heart as pure as paper

☆ Reader's guide:

Author's Weibo: @Qingmeijiang

1. A female-lead-focused, purely sweet and heartwarming story, 1v1. Please don't dig into the author's personal life.

2. Chen Qing'an is a dentist by profession and a rich second-generation heir troubled by love in his spare time. He's an expert at secretly coaxing young women. He seems aloof and pure as ice, but says a lot of dangerous things.

3. The author has carefully researched materials related to dentistry and machine learning. If anything is inaccurate, please feel free to point it out.

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My upcoming historical romance, Meet the Eastern Palace, and contemporary romance, A Whole Summer of Youth, are available to add to your favorites.

☆ My next novel, Meet the Eastern Palace, is available on my profile -----

In her previous life, Gu Xijia died in the autumn of the year the young emperor ascended the throne.

The Gu clan was an eminent scholarly family from Jiangzuo, with four generations of high-ranking officials, all respected scholars and not a single powerful minister. If Xijia's father had not taught phonology and exegesis in the Eastern Palace, she would never have married the powerful Duke of Liang. Though her father held no real power, he had at least served the crown prince, the emperor's favored heir.

And of course, she would not have... died without illness.

Reborn, Xijia busies herself winning the favor of everyone in the Eastern Palace and scheming to drive a wedge between herself and Duke of Liang. As for marriage...

The newly appointed top scholar is refined and handsome, and Xijia is quite taken with him. Unfortunately, as her father goes to pick a son-in-law from among the successful examinees, the Cui clan of Qinghe gets there first.

Unexpectedly, that afternoon, even the crown prince personally comes to ask after her.

Standing beneath the corridor, Liu Xun comforts her: "There are so many fine men in the world. You truly needn't take it to heart."

Xijia smiles behind her sleeve. "Quite so."

"With your ethereal beauty, keen mind, intelligence, and love of books, becoming the wife of a top scholar would be a waste."

Liu Xun smiles and says gently, "...Why not come rule the Eastern Palace?"

Reader's guide:

1. Female-lead-focused sweet romance, a historical version of What Should I Do If I Marry My Ex's Big Boss?

2. Set in an alternate, blended historical era, with customs broadly resembling the Han and Tang dynasties. It is not governed by the Song and Ming schools of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, so please don't nitpick historical details.

-------Or my next-next novel, A Whole Summer of Youth, on my profile

A gentle, timid girl x a sunny boy

-A sweet school romance

Everyone says that Xu Linyuan is the best student in Class Nine at Fu High.

Teachers adore him, students look up to him. His grades are always in the top three, and he was unanimously elected class monitor.

Unlike the boys who deliberately act cool and show off during their teenage years,

Xu Linyuan is bright and open, well-mannered, and the very picture of a gentle, handsome young man.

So Ji Xia really doesn't think it's strange that she fell for someone so radiant.

But she only dares to keep her feelings hidden in her heart.

Unfortunately, some other unlucky soul seems to be in the same boat as her.

Someone who quietly leaves chocolate in her desk during her period, and writes her name in a corner of the blackboard.

Sigh.

Until that summer night after the college entrance exams

At the class reunion, she and Xu Linyuan sit at opposite ends of the table.

After a few beers, the boys drape themselves over Xu Linyuan and laugh. "Monitor, jokes aside, we really admire you. You're the only person who's ever been unanimously elected class committee member and model student. Tell us, who could you possibly not be friends with?"

Xu Linyuan thinks for a moment. "There's one person."

"Who?" everyone asks, confused.

The young man curls his lips into a smile as warm as a spring breeze. "If you like Ji Xia too, then we can't be friends."

Ji Xia: "!!"

My profile has completed school romances for you to enjoy:

First-love school stories: The Boy by the Green Wall and Calling Your Name

Theme: A gentle marriage.