Fated Favoritism

[Print edition preorder opens July 30 at 7:00 p.m. Follow Weibo @Jiu Douxing for details.] [Marriage of convenience / marriage first, love later / groveling to win her back / sweet, satisfying entertainment-industry romance] Please add me to your author favorites, thank you! Sweet, vulnerable girl x rebellious, possessive CEO with an obsessive streak [1] When Wen Ning was twenty, she was brought back to the Jiang family in Hancheng to fulfill her betrothal. She spent six months after the wedding meekly trying to please Jiang Shu, but in the end, she still couldn’t warm his heart. The night she left, a cold wind and pouring rain surrounded her. The little woman curled up on a cold bench, arms around her knees, her delicate face pale with cold. In a car not far away, his assistant asked nervously, “Mr. Jiang, should I go get your wife?” The man curled his lips coldly and closed his eyes as if dozing. “Let her suffer a little. She’ll learn her lesson. When she can’t take it anymore, she’ll come home on her own.” For the first time, Jiang Shu’s calculations failed. After that night, he never even heard her voice again. A few weeks later, Jiang Shu got a call saying his younger sister had caused trouble at a bar and needed a family member to bail her out. The man replied carelessly, “Don’t let her out. Keep her in there.” Jiang Mengmeng heard him and hurriedly shouted, “Brother! My sister-in-law is here too! She’s locked up with me! Come save us!” Jiang Shu sat bolt upright. “Tell her to say something to me.” Wen Ning turned her face away. “I won’t.” The man’s voice instantly went hoarse. “Wait for me. I’m coming right now.” [2] Later, the young heir of Hancheng stooped to appear on a dating reality show, where Wen Ning was forced to be his partner. When an actor flirted with Wen Ning, Jiang Shu’s gaze darkened. His possessiveness was practically written all over his face. But the haters claimed: “Mr. Jiang looks disgusted. He’s scowling the whole time, like he can’t wait to blacklist Wen Ning and get rid of her.” That night, audio from an incident on the show leaked and topped the trending charts. The man’s voice was low. “Ningning, you’re mine.” Wen Ning: “I stopped being yours a long time ago.” The comments went silent, all waiting for this coldhearted man to fly into a rage. Instead, they heard him sigh softly, then chuckle tenderly and say, “Then I’m yours.” A few minutes later, Jiang Shu posted on Weibo: “If you’ve got the guts, say it again. She was already hard to win over, and now it’s even harder to chase her.” The CP fans were celebrating: “Ahhh! I knew they were real!” Tips: 1. Both leads are each other’s first and only, from beginning to end; one-on-one romance. 2. The groveling starts soon and is sweet, so read with confidence. Please add my new novel, Touchdown at the Perfect Time, to your favorites! Blurb: 1, Zhao Jiashi thought an arranged marriage to a fellow air traffic controller would be better than marrying a stranger. She never expected that he was not only having an inappropriate relationship with a coworker, but was also deliberately blocking her promotion to a permanent position, trying to force her to quit and become a full-time wife and mother. She promptly called off the engagement and reported him. When confronted with the report, her senior colleague said she was his fiancée and that their relationship problems were just a lovers’ spat. Zhao Jiashi only wanted to distance herself from him, so she made up a story that she was marrying someone else. When her supervisor pressed for a name, the half-brother she hadn’t seen in years flashed through her mind. “Lu Shiwen.” Her colleagues and supervisor exchanged glances, trying not to laugh. If she was going to make something up, she could at least make it believable. Who in civil aviation didn’t know Lu Shiwen’s name? He was the head of Skyward Airlines, a former fighter pilot, and a walking first-class merit citation. He was immensely influential, with a background shrouded in mystery. No one could possibly connect him to Zhao Jiashi, a lowly trainee air traffic controller in the tower. But the next second, the big shot actually appeared before them. Everyone was stunned and turned to look at the equally shocked Zhao Jiashi, wondering how she would handle this. Her supervisor hurried over respectfully. “Mr. Lu, why didn’t you come in and sit down? We must have been poor hosts.” The man looked only at Zhao Jiashi and replied naturally, “I’m here to pick her up. She wouldn’t let me in, only let me wait outside. If she tells me to go east, how could I dare go west? At home, I have to do as she says.” Zhao Jiashi: “...?” Everyone else: “!!!” 2, Before learning that his younger sister, Zhao Jiashi, was about to marry someone else, Lu Shiwen was in Australia, dominating the civil aviation market with a prestigious position and no plans to return to China. The arranged marriage was a last resort. Zhao Jiashi didn’t want many people to know, and she hadn’t mentioned it to Lu Shiwen at all. But somehow, the harsh prenuptial agreement imposed by her prospective in-laws reached him, all the way across the ocean. “They really think they’re some kind of aristocratic family.” Lu Shiwen read the agreement with a cold expression, then immediately booked a flight home. Not long afterward, Zhao Jiashi received another unfair prenuptial agreement. This time, however, every clause favored the woman. The agreement came from Lu Shiwen, and the person she was marrying was also Lu Shiwen. “Two years. Once the two years are up, we won’t interfere in each other’s lives.” But as the deadline approached, Lu Shiwen had already given her everything he’d promised, and more. The one thing he couldn’t do was keep his hands off her life. He interfered in everything, from what she ate and wore to how she traveled, constantly checking on her and looking after her himself. He even suggested that she should interfere in his life more, too. For example, if he came home even a second late, she could call to check up on him and interrogate him. Tips: * Marriage first, love later * Air traffic controller vs. airline captain and CEO * Male lead takes the lead; siblings at first, then sweethearts; no blood relation Theme: Believe in love