After Our Secret Marriage

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In the second year of her secret marriage to Lu Yan, Yu Sheng was busy, and so was he. She was calm and reserved, while he was taciturn. Their loveless marriage of convenience had reached its end.

On the day they amicably agreed to divorce, Lu Yan asked her, "Are you sure?"

Yu Sheng replied coolly, "Yes."

Lu Yan looked at her for a long time. "All right."

On the eve of their divorce, Lu Yan drowned his sorrows in alcohol.

His childhood friends gamely kept him company. By the end of the night, they were staggering around, their heads spinning. "I can't walk anymore. Let's just get a room upstairs."

Lu Yan held his head. "Do whatever you want. I'm going home."

His friend teased him. "You're getting divorced anyway. Why go home?"

Lu Yan put on his coat and insisted on leaving.

His friend reasoned, "You don't even live together anymore. How would she know whether you went home?"

Lu Yan carefully fastened the last button. "Even if she doesn't know, I can't stay out all night."

His friend was so annoyed he could cry. "No wonder Yu Sheng walks all over you!"

Later, at Lu Yan and Yu Sheng's grand wedding, reporters who'd been invited chased after him. "We heard that Mr. Lu and Ms. Yu married for mutual benefit. Is this wedding just to silence the rumors?"

Lu Yan looked at the reporter and smiled faintly. "Is that so?"

The reporter was struck speechless and instantly regretted asking.

They couldn't afford to provoke Mr. Lu, a ruthless man who showed no mercy.

"Why couldn't I have spent years scheming to win Shengsheng's heart?" Lu Yan casually adjusted his cufflinks. His wedding band gleamed on his ring finger in the sunlight. "And finally gotten what I wanted."

Yu Sheng, approaching with her skirt in hand, froze. ???

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Author page: Years Gone By

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[Synopsis]:

1.

When Lu Yao was in school, she had a relationship with a guy who was tall and handsome, and most charming when he smiled.

Later, she learned that there was more to him than met the eye, and that they belonged to completely different worlds.

After she started working, Lu Yao became famous at her company for being a single woman.

When colleagues asked what kind of man she liked, she always brushed them off with, "The more ordinary, the better."

Her colleagues were exasperated. It sounded like a simple requirement, but it really wasn't.

2.

One day, a colleague set Lu Yao up on a blind date.

"He's not tall, handsome, or rich. Just an ordinary guy." The colleague stammered, panicking inside. "Just meet him. It's fine if you don't like him."

Lu Yao couldn't refuse, so she went, intending to make things clear face-to-face.

When she arrived at the restaurant, the man behind the table looked up, revealing a pair of dark, deep-set eyes. Lu Yao froze.

Her colleague looked guilty. "There are plenty of better-looking men. He's 184 centimeters, so that's not too tall, right? And as for being rich... he stepped down as Qi Group's CEO two years ago."

Qi Yue stood up, smiling as though the ice had melted. "Yaoyao, the dishes are all here. Let's eat."

3.

Everyone in their circle knew that Qi Yue had carved out a place for himself in the family business. He was famously coldhearted and mercenary, and could even use marriage as a bargaining chip.

But later, he gave it all up and vanished from their world.

No one knew that Qi Yue had gone everywhere Lu Yao might appear, waiting day after day for someone who might never return.

This time, at last, she came.

He would never let her go again.

~﹡~﹡~﹡ [.Friend's new novel: A Love Letter to Wei Lai, by Meng Xiao Er.]﹡~﹡~﹡~﹡~﹡~*~﹡~﹡~﹡~

[Female lead's synopsis]:

Lately, rumors have been spreading among Jiangcheng's elite that Wei Lai was dumped by her ex-boyfriend, had her dream of marrying into a wealthy family shattered, and is now dating a powerful man from Beijing's social scene.

One day, Wei Lai was called in at the last minute to attend a dinner. She was the last to enter the private room, and to her surprise, her ex-boyfriend was there too.

She was a nobody, not important enough for the host to introduce everyone at the table to her.

During the dinner, her ex-boyfriend raised his glass to her. "Congratulations. I hear you've got a new romance."

Someone who loved a bit of drama asked who her new boyfriend was.

"Which big shot from Beijing's social scene?"

Wei Lai didn't know any big shots from Beijing, and had no idea where the rumor had come from.

On a whim, she named a powerful, unmarried man she'd heard of: "Zhou Sujin."

Everyone at the table: "..."

They all stared in shock at the man seated at the head of the table.

Wei Lai didn't understand what was going on, but looked over too, meeting the man's cold, inscrutable gaze.

Leaning back in his chair, he was elegant and aloof, relaxed yet intimidating, watching her with an unhurried gaze.

Wei Lai thought, Don't tell me I'm so unlucky that this man is Zhou Sujin's friend?

Just then, the host came to his senses. Seeing that Zhou Sujin hadn't denied it, he smiled and congratulated him. "So that's why you suddenly came to Jiangcheng. You came to see your girlfriend."

Zhou Sujin smiled faintly.

He didn't even know when he'd gotten a girlfriend.

Wei Lai had only wanted to get back at her ex-boyfriend, but she hadn't expected to dig herself into a hole right in front of the man himself.

The first thing Zhou Sujin said to Wei Lai was, "Since you've made it public, come sit next to me."

Wei Lai: "..."

[Male lead's synopsis]:

On the night of his thirtieth birthday, his friends urged him to make a wish.

For no particular reason, he thought of Wei Lai.

Cold-blooded and heartless were how other people described him.

Wei Lai was the only one who'd ever called him a good person.

And she was only that sweet when she wanted something from him.

For the first time in his life, he made a birthday wish for someone else, hoping that she would get what she wanted.

One night, someone tagged him in the group chat with his childhood friends: Someone's pretending to be you and writing Wei Lai a love letter. The handwriting doesn't look like yours.

The handwriting was beside the point. No one could believe that the ever-arrogant second young master of the Zhou family would lower himself like that.

Zhou Sujin replied: [No one's pretending to be me. I wrote it.]

He'd written Wei Lai a confession letter, stroke by stroke.

If she wanted his influence, he'd let her borrow it for the rest of her life.

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[Synopsis]:

Yan Jiahui was practically raised by Lin Wei.

Most of the warmth she'd felt over the past twenty-some years had come from him.

Unfortunately, the only light in her life went out.

After learning the terrible news, she also learned another name.

Bai Youning.

She returned to the country for Lin Wei, but under another identity, she went to Bai Youning.

Bai Youning had met plenty of girls, but few were as pure and guileless as her.

When she smiled, it was as if flowers bloomed throughout the world.

She said her name was Lu Zhenzhen.

Later, he really did fall for her.

But she said coldly, "Bai Youning, listen carefully. I am Yan Jiahui."

There was no light in the way she looked at him.

As it happened, Yan Jiahui was the name he'd been investigating all along, the heir to Lin Wei's estate.

She had gone mad for Lin Wei.

He had gone mad for Lu Zhenzhen.

Yan Jiahui: If fate has arranged for us to meet, then let's meet.

Bai Youning: If you won't come to me anymore, then I'll be the one to get closer to you.

Theme: Return to your original intentions.