Sweetness After Marriage

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"Dating a jerk is worse than marrying a CEO"

When Lu Xiuming was sixteen, he secretly slipped a box of chocolates into Wen Nuan's schoolbag.

When she found them, his ears turned red. Fidgeting, he took her hand and declared in a voice loud as a bell, “Wen Nuan, I like you.”

The girl stared at him in surprise, then listed all her flaws for him.

She was withdrawn, gloomy, pessimistic, obsessive, sensitive...

Wen Nuan warned him, “Being with me will be hard.”

But the boy insisted, “I'm not afraid. I'm willing.”

Later, Lu Xiuming broke up with Wen Nuan.

When Wen Nuan demanded an explanation, the man pointed at her and shouted himself hoarse. “You're withdrawn and gloomy, obsessive and sensitive. Being with you is exhausting. You're dragging me into hell!”

“Let me go, Wen Nuan. I'm begging you.”

The girl dug her nails into her palm, smiled through the pain, and replied, “All right.”

Later still, Lu Xiuming, with no one to bring him warm clothes when the weather turned cold and no one to leave a light on for him late at night, began to miss Wen Nuan's kindness.

Taking advantage of the alcohol in his system, he called her. “Nuannuan, I bought a house. Come back to me. I'll give you a home, okay?”

There was a two-second silence on the other end. Then a man's voice rang out. “Sorry, she already has a home.”

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As long as I'm alive, you'll never be without a home.

Jiang Yan

[The realistic version]

After her boyfriend cheated on her, Wen Nuan met Jiang Yan during the darkest, most miserable period of her life.

He was like a beam of light shining into the darkness, driving away the bitter winter and the pitch-black gloom.

With Jiang Yan's encouragement and support, Wen Nuan returned to the dream she'd had as a girl. She changed her major, sat the graduate school and civil service exams, and became a forensic pathologist who often assisted local police stations.

After joining the force, Wen Nuan was assigned to a local police station. She used her professional knowledge and skills to help its officers solve a baffling murder case.

That technical assistance made Wen Nuan realize just how important it was, as a forensic pathologist, to use what she'd learned to help the families of the dead find the truth whenever she could, and to speak for the dead with objectivity and fairness.

She would love her career and Jiang Yan all her life.

[Submission rationale: An inspirational romance about a woman with mental health issues who gets a new lease on life, works hard to earn her graduate degree and enter public service, and becomes a forensic pathologist, ultimately finding happiness in both her career and marriage.]

[Reading guide]

* Her ex-boyfriend gets his comeuppance, and the CEO takes his place.

* CEO x forensic pathologist (her eventual career). Both are virgins. A healing romance with an eight-year age gap, about two kindhearted people who marry first and fall in love later.

* The author is not a professional. All career-related plot points are included to serve the story. Please don't scrutinize them for accuracy.

* If this story makes you uncomfortable, please stop reading.

* Blurb written on 2021.3.14, screenshot saved as proof.

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★ Gentle and kind x devious and vile, both are virgins

★ He secretly loves her / second male lead takes the lead (male lead arrives late) / childhood friends / reunion after years apart / marry first, fall in love later

Ruan Yan had secretly loved Sheng Yubai for six years. At last, her wish came true and she became his wife.

Everyone knew theirs was a marriage of convenience, with no love between them.

There were even rumors that Sheng Yubai had a white moonlight he couldn't forget.

Ruan Yan thought that if she was sincere enough, even stone could be made to bloom, and that one day Sheng Yubai would come to love her too.

It wasn't until she saw him with her own eyes, staying by his white moonlight's bedside without changing clothes or sleeping, that she realized some people are born winners in love.

At that moment, after years of secret love, her heart finally died.

Ruan Yan took the divorce papers to him herself.

Sheng Yubai frowned at her for a while, then signed his name. “Don't regret this.”

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After the divorce, Ruan Yan became a sensation in the dance world, traveling around the globe to perform and compete.

Countless men fell under the spell of her dancing.

Watching gossip about his ex-wife spread everywhere, Sheng Yubai felt the veins in his forehead throb. He finally couldn't sit still.

On a rainy night, Sheng Yubai knocked on the door of Ruan Yan's hotel room. But the person who opened it was Ling Huaiye, the second young master of the Ling family, who had grown up with Ruan Yan as her childhood friend.

The man had just showered and had a towel wrapped around his waist. He looked down at Sheng Yubai with an aloof expression and a mocking smile. “Well, Mr. Sheng. Long time no see.”

Before Sheng Yubai could ask anything, Ruan Yan's sweet, bone-melting voice came from inside. “A Ye, I'm done showering. Carry me out...”

Seeing Sheng Yubai's face turn livid, Ling Huaiye raised his brows and smiled brazenly. “Sorry, Mr. Sheng. I've got to go help my wife out of the bath.”

[Reading guide]

* Dancer x CEO/architect.

* The leads grew up together. The heroine had a marriage in name only with the second male lead. Both leads are virgins.

* The hero has been plotting this for a long time.

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Theme: The person who truly loves you will be endlessly gentle and capable of anything.