A Guide to Romance After Marriage

[Coming soon: Kiss Marks, Prey, The Buddha's Disciple and the Buddha Tiger. Please add them to your favorites!]

[Rebellious jealous type x sweet and sly] [Main story complete] Extra chapters at 6 p.m.

The Yan and Leng families arranged a grand marriage alliance. On their wedding night, Leng Baiyin thoughtfully suggested that she and Yan Lie stay out of each other's affairs.

Yan Lie heard her cheerful proposal and only looked at her silently before lowering his eyes to undo his metal cuff links. He said nothing. Leng Baiyin took that as his agreement.

She quickly produced pen, ink, paper, and an inkstone, then laid down three rules:

First, a clear line down the middle of the bed, with mutual respect. No actually "sleeping" together.

Second, they would return to the old family home every week for "sweet, loving couple" performances, and they both had to "get into character."

Third... she hadn't thought of the third one yet.

"We can add it when you think of something," Yan Lie suggested, licking his lips.

Leng Baiyin thought that sounded fine. After they signed and stamped the agreement, she stashed it in a safe, where it would never see daylight again.

After she fell asleep that night, Yan Lie opened the safe and secretly added the third rule.

During one tipsy visit to the old family home, she crossed the line down the middle of the bed, breaking their "three rules."

When the time came for her to leave, she sat on the bed, running her fingers over the divorce papers.

With a bang, the door flew open. Yan Lie's usually arrogant, handsome face was grim. He strode over, grabbed her ankle, and pulled her into his arms, then put something in her hands.

Leng Baiyin looked closely. It was their original "three family rules."

The blank third line had been filled in with his bold, forceful handwriting: Never divorce!

[Bonus scene]

Before the "three rules" were torn up. In the study, Yan Lie was concentrating on reviewing documents.

Leng Baiyin came closer, and the scent of roses drifted into his nose. Thinking of the night before, Yan Lie's muscles tensed. His fingers gripped the pen so hard that his knuckles turned white.

Leng Baiyin glanced over, then leaned in close to him.

"Do you really want to?" he asked in a low voice.

Leng Baiyin tilted her head, seeming confused. "Want what?"

Yan Lie tilted his head back and looked at her with a half-smile, then pulled her into his arms. "Want me."

--[Coming soon: Tempted Into a Kiss. Please add it to your favorites, everyone!]--

Proud movie star x gentle beauty

Everyone knew Liang Shu, the dazzling, moon-bright movie star, never took romantic roles and avoided physical contact. He was impossible to approach.

Then he suddenly accepted a romantic role, with plenty of intimate scenes! His leading lady was An Wan, a complete unknown. The industry was stunned. They thought Liang Shu's string of successes was about to come to an end, since there was clearly no chemistry between them.

But when filming began, everyone was astonished: they had chemistry in spades.

During a forceful kissing scene, An Wan was uncharacteristically unable to find the right feeling.

Liang Shu wiped the lipstick that belonged to her from the corner of his mouth, then leaned close to her ear and caught his breath. "Shy? Weren't you pretty good at this before?"

An Wan glared at him angrily, refusing to back down. "It doesn't feel the same as before."

Liang Shu gazed at her intently. Once filming officially began, he kissed An Wan until her face was flushed and radiant before finally letting her go.

Afterward, he said, "It doesn't feel the same as before?" Liang Shu stared into her glistening dark eyes, his thumb brushing over the lips he had kissed red. "Someone even got kissed to tears."

Everyone knew Liang Shu had a pair of deeply meaningful earrings that he never took off.

At the wrap party, a wealthy young woman who was in love with Liang Shu watched the kissing scene with envious, bloodshot eyes. She secretly started a livestream to mock An Wan. "You think Liang Shu likes you? Dream on! Have you seen those earrings? His ex-girlfriend, the one he never got over, gave them to him. He never takes them off."

An Wan turned and looked at Liang Shu without a change in her expression, giving him a faint smile.

Their eyes met. Liang Shu cast aside his usual arrogance, walked up to An Wan, took off his earrings, and put them on her. The hidden backs of the earrings came into view: one engraved with an A, the other with a W.

"She was the one I never got over, but she wasn't my ex-girlfriend."

An Wan smiled. "Then what was she?"

Liang Shu pulled her into his arms, lowered his noble head in front of everyone, and reverently kissed her earlobe.

Her earlobe was warm, the earrings cool against it. He chuckled softly. "You said we were breaking up back then, but I never agreed."

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