A Kiss Beneath the Gardenia

Coming next: Love Rekindled and Four Seasons of Love [Showbiz]

Preorder: Second-Time Sweet Marriage, with the same amnesia trope

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Blindness / amnesia / reunion after years apart / mutual crush finally comes true

Yan Zhi fell in love with a pair of eyes while she was in school. Their owner was aloof and proud, difficult to approach, but she was the exception.

As the exception, she became the “love messenger,” delivering letters for everyone.

No one knew that she slipped her own feelings into them, too.

She asked him to meet beneath the gardenia tree after dusk.

But that day, the girl who had once been the darling of the heavens fell from grace, and vanished without a trace.

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Years later, a critically injured patient in shock was rushed to Yan Zhi's hospital. Once the blood was cleaned away, a familiar yet strange face was revealed.

Yan Zhi wrested him from the clutches of death with her own hands. He had lost his memory and his sight, but she stayed by his side.

On the eve of his surgery, the man's voice was low and hoarse. “Come back to the country with me.”

“Okay.” She leaned in and kissed him first, letting herself lose control tonight.

But after his sight was restored, she disappeared from his world once again.

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After returning home, Yan Zhi's secret identity as a singer was unexpectedly exposed. A stunningly beautiful PhD who had returned from overseas, she became an overnight sensation.

When she was invited to take part in a charity dating show, Yan Zhi discovered that her partner had changed from a gorgeous young star to the CEO of Zhiyan.

Yan Zhi hurried to turn away, only to have her path blocked by a scepter. The man, dressed in a suit, tall and slender, approached step by step in sunglasses. “Long time no see. Should I call you Doctor Zhiyan or Junior Sister Yan Zhi? It's time to settle what you owe me.”

Yan Zhi replied with polite reserve. “I don't know what you're talking about.”

The man calmly pulled out a letter. Yan Zhi's expression changed instantly.

With a low laugh, he cornered her and leaned close, his eyes behind the sunglasses proud and alluring. “If you kiss me, you'll have to take responsibility. Didn't you say in that letter you wanted to marry me? What do you say, today?”

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No one knew that he had received countless love letters in his life, but only ever replied to one, a letter scented with gardenias. That day, he stood foolishly beneath the gardenia tree, letter in hand, and waited. He waited for fourteen years.

At eighteen, Xie Xingzhi had nothing, but he was lucky enough to see gardenias in bloom.

At thirty-two, Jing Xingzhi had achieved fame and success, and finally plucked this gardenia.

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One day, the news “Zhiyan founder Jing Xingzhi spends hundreds of millions to marry Yan Zhi” flooded the internet.

@Zhiyan Official Weibo: “Recent online claims that our founder, Mr. Jing Xingzhi, spent thirty million to marry Ms. Yan Zhi are false.”

Netizens: “Ha! Knew it! That whole thing about their words and actions being fake!”

@Zhiyan Official Weibo: “It was three hundred million.”

Netizens: “...???”

#You came, and from then on my world had light

#She runs, he chases, and she can't escape even with wings

[Reading Guide]

1. Clear-headed ophthalmologist heroine x aloof, proud, devoted puppy hero

2. The heroine's career focuses on medicine, with little showbiz content

Coming next: Love Rekindled. Please add it to your library!

Second chances / a careful, calculated pursuit / SC

Aloof, restrained, devoted, scheming hero x dazzling, bold, flirtatious beauty

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Ji Youning was returning home for an arranged marriage. She never expected her match to be the younger brother of her former ideal man.

The day she reunited with her ideal man, Ji Youning stunned everyone in a backless, pearl-sheened dress with tassels. Her skin was like ice and jade, her beauty like the bloom of spring, utterly breathtaking.

In the corner, a man in a navy-blue suit looked cold and distinguished. His gaze fell on Ji Youning, deep yet nonchalant. Only those who knew him could tell that the corners of his lips had pressed down slightly.

Ji Youning took Sheng Qinghe's arm and approached the man gracefully. “Uncle.”

The knuckles of the hand holding his glass turned white. His dark eyes were cool, weary, and deep. He swallowed his drink and held out a hand. “It's a pleasure to meet you, sister-in-law.”

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Sheng Zhaoling, head of the Sheng family, was refined and dignified, with iron-fisted methods and immense influence. He was known as the most refined of power-hungry men.

Yet this man never showed interest in women. There had long been rumors in their circle that the tycoon had been hurt by his first love and had lost interest in women.

No one had ever seen Sheng Zhaoling go wild for a woman, except Ji Youning.

In a dim private room, panting filled the air, and the atmosphere grew intimate and charged, stirring their most primal desires.

The man's expression darkened as he lifted the woman's delicate chin and spoke slowly, word by word. “How does it feel to kiss your uncle, sister-in-law?”

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The stupidest thing Sheng Zhaoling ever did was believe in love.

On their first anniversary, he stood nervously beneath her apartment building all night, holding roses and a wedding ring. But she had already boarded a flight to Milan.

Five years later, he once again waited beneath her building all night, a layer of snow settling on his shoulders.

When Ji Youning returned, she saw him standing there, sharp and crystalline, his expression impossible to read. “I'm now the head of the Sheng family.”

“What?”

“End the engagement and marry me. I'll help save the Ji family.”

To hell with love. If you can't wait for it, then take it back.

#Love rekindled, burning without end

#The best hunters often appear as prey

[Reading Guide]

1. The hapless uncle is just one part of Sheng Qinghe and Ji Youning's game

2. But it's not certain who is playing whom

Preorder: Four Seasons of Love [Showbiz]

The most devoted husband x the number-one hater

1v1, SC, she falls in love after marriage, his secret crush comes true

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Chi Chunyi had been secretly married to her nemesis for two years, and had kept up the act for just as long.

By day, she was a dazzling superstar. At night, she was a gentle, considerate little bunny and a data worker in her nemesis's anti-fan group.

Her nemesis was the ideal man of the top-tier stars: Ji Huaijin, the youngest Best Actor to win every major award. Born into a prominent family, he was refined and proper, and excelled in family background, ability, looks, and popularity.

But she had hated him ever since she was eighteen. If the Chi family hadn't been on shaky ground, she would never have married the eldest son of the Ji family and tied her whole life to him.

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When Chi Chunyi discovered that second-tier actor Xie Junyan had been her angel fan, supporting her from obscurity to dazzling fame, she did everything she could to endorse him and gave him the best resources to repay him.

Everyone in the industry said she was hopelessly in love with him. Xie Junyan had also expressed his fondness for her publicly several times. Rumors of their relationship had swirled for months, and neither party denied them, so the whole internet assumed they were together.

One day, paparazzi photographed Ji Huaijin and Chi Chunyi coming and going together. Chi Chunyi was suspected of cheating with the internet's ideal man, and was subjected to a vicious online attack.

Two days later.

Chi Chunyi rolled her eyes, then instantly broke into a beaming smile and spoke in a coquettish voice. “Honey, what are you doing here? Be careful, someone might take a picture of us QAQ.”

The man had just come from an awards ceremony. In a brilliant white suit, he looked handsome and elegant, his features as beautiful as jade. He intertwined his fingers with Chi Chunyi's and spoke gently. “I'm here to clear up the rumors.”

“?”

At 1:13 a.m., Ji Huaijin posted two updates.

1. Reposting the news about Chi and Xie's relationship: False.

2. @Ji HuaijinV: [Fingers Interlocked.jpg] True.

Netizens: “I sat bolt upright on my deathbed!!!”

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Ever since becoming one of Ji Huaijin's anti-fans, Chi Chunyi had done her job diligently.

Until one day, she found an account still logged in on her husband's computer. It was the very ID that had been with her from obscurity to fame.

#What do you do when you've been hating the wrong person?

#How do I win my darling husband back? Help, help, help!

[Bonus Scene]

Ji Huaijin discovered that Madam Ji had a secret account that publicly presented itself as one of his biggest fans.

But it had voted for: Least Convincing Couple in Showbiz: Ji Huaijin and Chi Chunyi

[Our brother doesn't even look human, he doesn't deserve a fairy like her, sob sob sob. Sister Chi should shine on her own!]

That night, Ji acted unlike his usual gentle self. Madam Ji didn't get out of bed for three days. Her eyes were red, and she asked weakly, “Honey, what's gotten into you?”

Ji Huaijin lowered his head, gently licked her earlobe, and smiled with refined elegance. “A beast who doesn't even look human. Do you like it?”

#You chase the light, I chase you

[Completed] A marriage-first, love-after secret-crush story: The Sweetest Fairy Loves to Be Kissed [Showbiz]

[Completed] A silly, sweet campus romance: Flirt with Me Again and I'll Kiss You

[Completed] A sweet campus romance: My Online Flame Got Exposed Before We Broke Up

Theme: True love above all