After Marrying My Ex-Boyfriend's Brother

[Collecting favorites for my next book, Falling in Love with My Direct Boss / Sweet Romance After Marriage]

Wen Ying is fair-skinned and beautiful, with a pure, graceful charm in every smile and frown. She has captivated countless men, so when her friends learn that someone as lovely as her has been dumped, they’re shocked.

When they hear she was cheated on, they feel even worse for her and condemn her ex-boyfriend on her behalf.

Wen Ying waves cheerfully. It’s fine. I was perfectly happy to be dumped, and I’ve already married someone else.

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Her boyfriend’s first love is back, and he wants to break up with Wen Ying. Feeling terribly guilty, he asks what kind of compensation she wants.

Wen Ying points with her slender, delicate hand at her boyfriend. No, wait, at her ex-boyfriend’s good friend, Wen Jiayi.

Wen Ying: Hold on, I was clearly pointing at the luxury car. When did you get in it?

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Wen Ying discovers that her ex-boyfriend and Wen Jiayi have been scheming against her, so she decides to cut them out of her life forever.

But the next day, Wen Jiayi hands her a marriage contract, asking her to play along with a fake marriage.

Wen Ying is facing a huge penalty for quitting her job. When she hears the compensation he’s offering: help her end her contract, cover her food and lodging, give her thirty thousand yuan in monthly spending money, and buy her a luxury car and a mansion when it’s over...

Wen Ying’s eyes light up. She’s in!

Pure, fairy-like, adorably foolish beauty x gentle, reserved, scheming tycoon

- The heroine falls in love after marriage; the hero’s longtime crush finally comes true, and he’s been plotting it for ages

- Age-gap romance: the hero is five years older than the heroine

A funny, sweet romance about a beautiful airhead who wants to save up and become financially independent, only to have a rich Big Bad Wolf win her heart with money!

Coming soon: Falling in Love with My Direct Boss

A law firm takes on a case involving a deaf-mute client, and the boss sends his assistant, Zhang Jun, to find a sign language interpreter.

Sign language teachers are easy enough to find, but where can he find one who knows both sign language and the law?

While frantically searching, Zhang Jun gets into a car accident. A stroke of luck from the heavens solves his problem.

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The road is slippery in the rain, and Yu Yan accidentally scrapes a stranger’s car. Not only does he refuse to make her pay, he even says she saved his life.

To make it up to him, Yu Yan offers to work at the law firm as a sign language interpreter for its boss, Li Yangen.

But the assistant never mentioned that the boss would be so difficult to deal with: a perfectionist, aloof, sharp-tongued, and picky about everything.

"Your taste in clothes is terrible. Did you transmigrate here from the eighties or nineties? How can you meet clients with me dressed like that?"

"Why do you have hangnails? They look bad. Cut them off."

"The water temperature is wrong for making coffee. Pour it out."

"The document format is wrong, and so is the table. Were you expecting me to fix it for you?"

With the intention of paying off her debt, Yu Yan puts up with it all.

One day, she’s in the office drawing a comic to explain the law to a client, using the man across from her as a model. He suddenly turns to her and says coldly, "Women who try to pursue me have never succeeded. I suggest you stop wasting your time on that and focus on figuring out how to help our client understand our analysis. Also, I don’t date coworkers."

Yu Yan: ?

She can’t put up with being falsely accused like this. Once the case is over and her debt is paid, she hands in her resignation on her way out.

The next day, the man stares at the resignation letter on his desk, unable to react for a long time.

He sends her a message, and a red exclamation mark appears.

His friend mercilessly mocks him: "Stunned, huh? That’s what you get for acting like that."

After a few peaceful days, one evening Yu Yan sees her fussy boss pacing back and forth downstairs from her apartment.

She pretends not to see him and heads inside with her head down.

Soon, someone grabs her arm. The man stammers, "...The firm has taken on a few more cases involving deaf-mute clients. We need you to interpret. We’ll double your pay."

Yu Yan types on her phone: I already said in my resignation letter that I don’t want you ordering me around and criticizing everything I do.

Li Yangen: "...If you become the boss’s wife, you can criticize me all you want..."

Yu Yan: ?

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When the firm hears that Yu Yan and the boss are dating, everyone’s jaws hit the floor. They bet the relationship won’t last a month.

But before long, they notice something strange.

At a meeting, the boss tears Yu Yan’s proposal to shreds. Her colleagues bet they’ll break up that very night.

But after the meeting, someone hears the man quietly apologizing outside his office: "Baby, I was wrong. Please talk to me..."

Colleague: You weren’t wrong, boss! I was wrong! Is it too late to cancel my bet?!

#A cold, sharp-tongued man’s self-conquest and his constant face-slapping moments#

- A soft-spoken but strong-willed mute woman x a cold, sharp-tongued, rich second-generation lawyer

- Soulmates / joining hands to uphold justice

- Love grows over time / slow burn

Theme: Make money and prosper, advance the nation through science and technology, and contribute to socialist modernization