Entangled in the Mist

Completed arranged-marriage-to-love stories The Tower of Babel and The Love of a Lifetime are extra sweet and ready to read! Serializing The Longest Night Is Coming, please add it to your collection~

★ Radiant, guileless architect x distinguished, scheming magnate | Arranged marriage to love | He falls for her first

Wen Shubai once thought she would marry Chen Yanchi.

But on the eve of their engagement, she saw Chen Yanchi embracing his first love and kissing her passionately.

The pampered young heiress couldn't tolerate having her pride trampled on. Since the marriage alliance was already decided, she could always marry someone else.

Shang Xu, the head of the Shang Group, was decisive, ruthless, and proud. He approached everything with composure and had never once lost his self-control.

Wen Shubai had heard that he was not only unsmiling, but also kept his distance from women. He had never been involved in a scandal, was cold-hearted, and believed in remaining single.

For a time, she thought Shang Xu was incapable of loving anyone, and that she was nothing special to him.

Until that night, when she opened the bottle of 72-year-old Macallan on the table. Amber liquid swirled in a Lalique crystal decanter, filling the air with the rich fragrance of ripe smoked plums.

Taking advantage of her slight drunkenness, the man put an arm around her waist and called her name in a husky voice. "You're so stingy. You won't even kiss me when you're drunk."

She let him coax her into brushing her lips against the corner of his mouth. He chuckled softly, took her hand, and guided her fingertips past the corner of his mouth, finally stopping them against his lips.

"You kissed the wrong place. It's here."

[The best hunters often appear as prey]

"Maybe you don't know this, but I've been waiting for you for four years. I've plotted every move, all so I could hold you in my arms." - Shang Xu

Notes:

★ CEO Shang cleverly wins Wen Shubai's heart~ The heroine is 21, the hero is 27. They have an age gap. Nancheng is a fictional city.

☆ The heroine has no feelings for the scumbag. He insisted on "keeping his virtue and propriety" for his first love, so the two of them never even held hands. That makes the hero and heroine each other's first love, both emotionally and physically!

★ - Blurb for The Longest Night - ★

Capable, cool-headed deep-sea sailor x steady, reserved research station chief

In her three years on the job, Bai Hemian was urged to get married 108 times.

By the fourth year, her mother could no longer wait and arranged several blind dates for her. She even used the trendy phrase "marry first, fall in love later."

"You can build feelings over time. Your job is so unusual, and you're never home. If you don't get married while you're young, what will you do later?"

Bai Hemian married her third blind date, Song Zhenhong, simply because he was a suitable match, good-looking and easy on the eyes, and also a victim of parental pressure to marry.

On the day they met, they introduced their professions. At her mother's instruction, Bai Hemian had to be a little vague:

"Transport equipment mechanic." The sort who repairs high-speed trains in the city.

He answered, too: "Space physics observer." The sort who works at the Nanshan Observatory outside the city.

So they hit it off, got married in a flash, and gave their parents an answer.

Half a month later.

Song Zhenhong received an assignment first, and went out of town for "a few days." Bai Hemian followed right after him.

Aboard the research vessel bound for the Arctic, Song Zhenhong was holding a photograph and telling his teammates about his wife at home when he saw Bai Hemian.

The next second, Bai Hemian was introducing herself to someone else as a deep-sea sailor aboard the ship, newly married, with her husband back home.

Late at night.

Bai Hemian slipped into his room and confronted Song Zhenhong.

Song Zhenhong calmly replied, "I really am a space physics observer. I'm the winter-over station chief, responsible for observing the aurora during the Arctic polar night."

Bai Hemian answered boldly, "And I really am a transport equipment mechanic. I'm an engineer who repairs ships."

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When the polar night comes, death is forbidden in the Svalbard archipelago, but love is not.

Theme: Pursuing independence of the individual and a love built on mutual respect and equality | The architecture industry is thriving