Heartbeat Trap

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▲Coming soon: Tonight, Listen to the Rain; Think of Me; Gone Wild This Summer

[Marriage Before Love / Both Pure]

Lin Mian once fell head over heels for a handsome Chinese man with fluent English while she was abroad.

She thought she could leave him some money as a breakup fee and they could part on good terms.

Three years later, Lin Mian won Best Newcomer for the drama she was injured filming, and successfully signed with Xing Sheng Entertainment, a company that had been on a hot streak in recent years.

At the celebration banquet, Lin Mian never expected to see her Chinese ex-boyfriend from three years ago.

He held a wineglass, surrounded by several industry veterans. The light fell on half of his profile as he listened intently. He had shed the boyish air and gained a few traces of mature elegance.

The man suddenly turned to look at her, his gaze cold and unfamiliar. Lin Mian's heart gave a weightless leap.

The man strolled over. Her agent quietly reminded her, "He's Jiang Yu, the younger son of Xing Sheng Entertainment's owner."

"We've met," Lin Mian said.

Jiang Yu reminded her calmly, "Not only have we met, Mianmian, you also tricked me into marrying you."

Jiang Yu took a marriage certificate from his trouser pocket. Only then did Lin Mian remember that she'd left the documents at the church back then and completely forgotten about them.

Rumor had it that Jiang Yu, the young son of the entertainment empire's Jiang family, had married young, though no one knew who his spouse was.

Everyone assumed he'd only joked about being married to avoid an arranged marriage by his family, and that it was nothing to take seriously.

Later, someone saw Lin Mian leaning one hand against a black car door on the night of the Silver Spike Film Festival, bending down to share a lingering kiss with the man inside. Hidden in the shadows, the man reached out one sharply defined hand and rubbed the lipstick from the corner of Lin Mian's mouth with his thumb.

The next day, eagle-eyed netizens dug up that the car belonged to Jiang Yu.

#JiangYuLinMian trended, and more than a few people tried to stir things up, accusing Jiang Yu of cheating on his wife and keeping a young actress.

Jiang Yu posted a clarification.

Jiang Yu: @Lin Mian We got married abroad. My wife is my legal spouse.

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Weibo: @Queque Ah

Both pure | Both first loves | Long-planned pursuit | HE

I even measured every inch of your heart with my own hands. Every bit of it belongs to me.

They met and got married abroad. Please don't overthink it.

The heroine's one-sided emotional disorder is extremely important.

[Cool, passionate, scheming CEO who rides a motorcycle, like a big dog x cool, stunning actress]

Coming soon: Spring Breeze Never Enters the Night

Blurb:

The mighty Xie family is in crisis as the old patriarch lies gravely ill, and the younger generation plunges into a century-defining inheritance battle.

The whole affair becomes the favorite topic of conversation among the people of Lucheng.

Xie Qingyan, the Xie family's second son, who wields influence on Wall Street, returns to China overnight.

Everyone guesses that he's back to fight for the inheritance too. They don't know that while the Xie family puts on a show of visiting the old man for the news, Xie Qingyan never turns up.

One day, an Xie heir is shown weeping by the old man's bedside, and the media makes a huge story of it.

At the same time, on the bridge across the river, Xie Qingyan strolls behind the drunk Li Chu, one hand in his pocket and a pair of high heels dangling from the other.

Li Chu kicks off her shoes, and he picks them up. Li Chu tosses away her scarf, and he picks that up too, without a word of complaint, his face full of indulgence.

Li Chu reaches to pull off her dress. He wraps her in his coat, shielding her from the cameras. "Your Highness, take off any more and you'll end up in the news."

Later, after the old man passes away, Xie Qingyan refuses his inheritance. When asked why, he replies nonchalantly, "Li Chu doesn't like the Xie family."

Enchantress x gentlemanly scoundrel

Love after growing close / He secretly loves her / Ordinary people in the world / Fake relationship with a time limit

Coming soon, secret-crush story: Hard to Bear

Blurb:

Cheng Er doesn't like Jiacheng. It's dirty and rainy, the sky is low and heavy with clouds, and even the air has a persistent musty smell.

Before she met He Rangxiao, she didn't believe Jiacheng had any light in it.

The first time they meet, she heads upstairs and sees a boy leaning against the wall.

He is tall and slender, his black windbreaker casually draped over broad, lean shoulders. The collar is turned up around his chin as he lowers his lashes to send a message, his tone arrogant: "Fuck, someone splashed paint on my house again."

Green paint drips down the door and winds its way to the boy's black sneakers.

Hearing Cheng Er's footsteps, the boy lifts his eyes and sizes her up without a word. His thin lips move, his expression fierce: "What are you looking at? Never seen a scumbag get hunted down for cheating?"

*

It was the third day they hadn't spoken. The ache was hard to bear.

Cheng Er ran into He Rangxiao again, locked outside his door.

She softened her steps as she passed him.

He Rangxiao lowered his head to play on his phone, his eyelids drooping indifferently. Once she had quietly passed, his gaze followed her upstairs.

"Cheng Er..."

The old motion-activated light went out, plunging the stairwell into darkness.

He Rangxiao walked up the steps one by one, his tall figure drawing near. "Will you take me home?"

[Under the scorching sun, with cicadas singing endlessly, we'll meet at last this summer]

Roguish, aloof, catlike top student x clever, high-IQ beauty in trouble (both top students)

Rising tech star x lawyer

The hero is prone to bouts of indiscriminate jealousy.

Mutual secret crush / Both first loves / Both pure / Slow-burn healing and redemption / HE / No cheating / School and adult life

Theme: When your heart is full of light, darkness will retreat before you.