Wedding Bells Are Ringing [Marriage Before Love]

[Please add my next story, Summer Night, Pale Dawn, to your favorites. A sweet story about falling in love after marriage. Clear-headed, independent charmer × aloof, chaste business tycoon. Description below.] Coming soon: Late Marriage and Spoiled into Marriage. Please add them to your favorites. Here is the story description: An Qiao's flash marriage begins with an engagement arranged by their grandmothers. Her groom is Lu Yunjing, the head of Luyang Group. The man is devastatingly handsome, aloof, and distinguished. He leaves on a business trip for over a month on their wedding day, making it clear he doesn't care much about their marriage. They meet again a month later, when he helps her out of a difficult situation. An Qiao looks at the handsome face, already blurred in her memory, and instinctively looks away. But outside the club, the man invites her to go with him. When she asks, surprised, he coolly replies: "My memory can't be that bad. Or have you forgotten me, Mrs. Lu?" For some inexplicable reason, An Qiao hears a hint of grievance in his voice. She must be going crazy. To humor their elders, An Qiao and Lu Yunjing move in together. They sign an agreement, promising to play a loving couple only in front of their elders. In their daily lives, they will respect each other's boundaries, stay out of each other's business, and never cross the line. That's what An Qiao thinks, and that's how she acts. Until rumors spread through Luyang Group that the usually decisive CEO has become lovesick. Not only do all the employees get a raise, but the workplace atmosphere improves, and everyone posts daily to thank the CEO's girlfriend. At the same time, Lu Yunjing starts showing up around An Qiao far more often. Her friend can't help asking, "Qiaoqiao, could you be Mr. Lu's girlfriend?" An Qiao immediately waves her hands. "No way. We barely know each other!" Somehow, her words reach Lu Yunjing. That night, the man pins her to the bed and holds her wrists. "Miss An, you call sleeping in the same bed not knowing each other? Hmm?" Some time later, An Qiao starts a guzheng livestream. Viewers notice that she's streaming from a different place and flood the chat, asking if she's dating someone. An Qiao glances around and quietly waves them off. "Don't make things up. Men only slow down my playing!" But halfway through the stream, a hand wearing a man's watch appears on screen and sets a cup of coffee beside her. The chat erupts. It doesn't take long for someone to identify the watch, which appeared for only three seconds, as a limited-edition model with only a few in the world. As it happens, Luyang Group CEO Lu Yunjing owns one. Soon, Lu Yunjing posts: "We're not dating. We're married. Shh, my wife won't let me tell anyone. Keeping it low-key." Everyone stares at the crashed Weibo app and falls into deep thought. Well, it really is low-key. #At first, he thought he was only drawn to the light of a lamp in the night. Then he realized she brought the whole starry sky, and he gladly lost himself in it. *Flirtatious, teasing guzheng player × a business tycoon who starts out wolfish and turns puppy-like *Love after marriage · Everyday romance · Sweet story *Four-year age gap. The hero falls first. --- 2. My next story, Summer Night, Pale Dawn, is a love-after-marriage romance. [Clear-headed, independent charmer × aloof, chaste business tycoon] Qin Yining secretly marries a man she's met only twice. He's Shen Qingshi, head of the wealthy Shen family in Shanghai. Rumor has it he's cold-tempered and ruthless. Qin Yining comes from an ordinary background. They say the Shen elders chose her because her birth date and horoscope were a good match. They agree to be married for two years, then go their separate ways. Qin Yining doesn't mind. She's after his money. After the wedding, they meet six times a month to have sex and meet each other's needs. With a handsome, rich, secretly married husband who's particularly skilled in bed, Qin Yining is satisfied. Things change when Qin Yining opens a branch of her fresh fruit shop below Shen Qingshi's company headquarters. For a whole week, the afternoon tea delivered to the secretary's office is fruit bowls. And the flavor is familiar. Shen Qingshi asks about it. His assistant replies, "A new fruit shop opened downstairs. The owner is beautiful and sweet-voiced, and her fruit bowls are incredible." He adds unnecessarily, "I hear the owner is single, and quite a few male colleagues are eager to make a move." Shen Qingshi visits the shop and discovers that the owner who claims to be single is the same woman who was still whispering sweet nothings with him last night. When he arrives, Qin Yining is giving another man her number. In a sweet, gentle voice, she says, "We have a limited number of fruit bowls, so feel free to call ahead and reserve one, darling." That night, the usually restrained and composed Shen Qingshi seems like a different person. He bends down again and again to whisper in her ear. "Be good and call me darling." When their friends hear that Shen Qingshi has married on a whim, they all wonder what Mrs. Shen is like. What kind of woman could make the eldest Shen son bend to her will? Shen Qingshi comments coolly, seeming indifferent. "Clingy and dramatic." Everyone knows that means he's not interested. Until a video starts circulating online. Beautiful streamer Qin Yining travels deep into the mountains to help local farmers. In the livestream, a familiar figure flashes through the scorching fruit orchard. Shen Qingshi hurries over to Qin Yining, holding up a cut finger. "Wife, it hurts. Kiss it." Only then do people realize: It was Shen Qingshi himself who was "clingy and dramatic." #Love after marriage × Marriage of convenience × Adult content #A sweet, slow-burn story about two mature adults in their everyday lives #Neither lead is perfect. The heroine really loves money. --- 3. Description for my coming-soon story, Spoiled into Marriage [Aloof, pretend-good comic artist × business tycoon who's been plotting for years] #Love after marriage · Mutual unrequited love Shen Yan has lived with the Luo family for ten years, from age thirteen to twenty-three. She hides the defiant, spoiled streak in her nature, follows every rule, and acts gentle and composed. She's the well-behaved girl in everyone's eyes. The year she graduates from graduate school, the Luo family arranges a blind date for her. Her match is Chen Younan, the only son of Shanghai's wealthy Chen family. Young, yet already in charge of the Chen family's businesses, he's famous as a promising young man. To repay the Luo family's kindness, Shen Yan agrees to date him. At their few meetings, he's courteous, refined, and well-mannered. But the day before their engagement banquet, Shen Yan sees Chen Younan kissing another woman in a parking lot, then walking into a hotel with her. She rushes away and collides with someone. Luo Qingshu wears a black suit. His features are handsome and refined, and his air is cold. His solemn gaze settles on her wounded eyes. His voice is indifferent. "You've only known him for two months, and you're already so invested?" He bends close to her ear. "When you forcibly kissed me on your eighteenth birthday, why weren't you this devoted?" "Shen Yan, you've forgotten some things. I haven't." Luo Qingshu is the youngest son of the Luo family, raised in a den of wolves. Yet he is as graceful as a jade tree, with a proud and solitary spirit. He started his own business at eighteen. By twenty-eight, he'd become a rising star in Shanghai's tech world. He seems gentle and refined, but he's decisive and ruthless beneath the surface. Many women try to win him over, but he's never bent for anyone. The rumor in their social circle is that he's not interested in women. One night, a friend suddenly receives a message from him: "I'm getting married." Shanghai's entire upper class is thrown into an uproar, guessing which wealthy heiress has caught Luo Qingshu's eye, until a video begins to circulate. In a dimly lit bar, Luo Qingshu grabs a woman's wrist and forcefully wraps her in his suit jacket. Everyone is stunned to realize that the graceful, beautiful woman in the video is Shen Yan, the adopted daughter of the Luo family, who was ridiculed online after breaking off her engagement. As everyone wonders what is going on, the high-definition video captures the man's helpless yet indulgent voice. "Shen Yan, feeling pretty impressive, are you? You think wildflowers smell sweeter than the ones at home?" Before the wedding, Luo Qingshu puts it simply: "I need a wife, and you need someone to back you up. We can help each other out." After the wedding, it's as if he's become a different person. "Shen Yan, you forcibly kissed me when you were eighteen. You owe me an explanation." One day, after he leaves her exhausted and aching all over, Shen Yan sneaks into his study. She means to cause trouble, but unexpectedly finds his diary. Every entry, from when he was eighteen to when he was twenty-eight, is about "Shen Yan." It turns out she'd always been the love he never dared to confess, overflowing in his heart. Now, under the name of marriage, he finally has every right to love her. --- Coming soon: Late Marriage, a love-after-marriage romance where an old crush comes true. Description on my author page. --- Completed: Living with My Ex-Boyfriend, a sweet story about rekindled love. If you're interested, please visit my author page and add them to your favorites. Theme: Be your own light